# Die DA sê ten spyte van inhegtenisnemings gaan die ongebreidelde stroping van boslelie- en vetplantspesies voort. Verlede week is vier buitelanders tot 15-jaar tronkstraf elk gevonnis nadat hulle 303 plante van die ernstig bedreigde Clivia mirabilis in die Namakwa-streek gesteel het. Andrew de Blocq van die DA sê talle bedreigde en ernstig bedreigde plantspesies, […]
# Die minister van Bosbou, Visserye en die Omgewing, Dion George, het die publikasie van die konsep-regulasies vir die Nasionale Kweekhuisgas-koolstofbegroting en -versagtingsplan vir openbare kommentaar goedgekeur. Die konsepregulasies bemagtig die minister om ‘n lys van kweekhuisgasse en aktiwiteite wat tot klimaatsverandering bydra, op te stel. Dit ondersteun ook Suid-Afrika se landswye bydraes tot die […]
# Corruption Watch has condemned the recent threats and attacks on Abahlali baseMjondolo, the Socio-Economic Rights Institute, and the Human Rights Commission, by anti-immigrant organisation Operation Dudula and its allied groups. Last week, Operation Dudula marched to the Durban and Johannesburg offices of the SAHRC and SERI’s Johannesburg office. They expressed frustrations over NGOs prioritising […]
# The DA says, despite arrests being made, the illegal poaching of Clivia and succulent species remains rampant. Last week, four foreign nationals were sentenced to 15-years imprisonment each, for poaching 303 specimens of the critically endangered Clivia mirabilis in the Namakwa region. The DA’s Andrew de Blocq says several endangered and critically endangered plant species, including […]
# Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Dion George, has approved the publication of the draft National Greenhouse Gas Carbon Budget and Mitigation Plan Regulations for public comment. The draft regulations empower the minister to establish a list of greenhouse gases and activities contributing to climate change. They also support South Africa’s Nationally Determined […]
# ActionSA het ‘n amptelike versoek aan die premier van Mpumalanga, Mandla Ndlovu, gerig vir ‘n gedetailleerde openbaarmaking van die regering se proses om die liggame van die drie Lily-mynwerkers te herwin. Die oorskot van Yvonne Mnisi, Pretty Nkambule en Solomon Nyerende, wat ondergronds vasgekeer is nadat die myn in 2016 ineengestort het, is nog […]
# Die Vryheidsfront Plus sê die afgedankte minister van Hoër Onderwys en Opleiding, Nobuhle Nkabane, moenie in ʼn ander belangrike regeringspos aangestel word nie, want dit sal ʼn bespotting van aanspreeklikheid maak. Haar afdanking kom te midde van korrupsiebewerings oor die aanstelling van die 21 SETA-rade se voorsitters, wat ANC-lede ingesluit het. Die VF Plus-woordvoerder, […]
# ActionSA has formally written to the Mpumalanga premier, Mandla Ndlovu, to seek a detailed disclosure of the government’s reported process to recover the bodies of the three Lily Mine workers. The remains of Yvonne Mnisi, Pretty Nkambule, and Solomon Nyerende, who were trapped underground after the mine collapsed in 2016, have still not been […]
# The Freedom Front Plus says fired minister of Higher Education and Training, Nobuhle Nkabane, should not assume another prominent government position, as this would make a mockery of accountability. Her sacking comes amid allegations of corruption over the appointments of the chairpersons of the 21 Sector Education and Training Authorities boards, which included ANC […]
