# Die GOOD-party sê die deportasie van die klimaatsaktivis Greta Thunberg en ander aan boord van die Madleen het dalk onbedoeld aandag getrek na die humanitêre krisis in Gaza. Die boot met 12 mense aan boord wat volgens berigte humanitêre hulp na Gaza wou neem, is na die Israelse hawestad Asdod gesleep nadat dié land […]
# Die Presidensiële Klimaatkommissie waarsku Suid-Afrika loop die gevaar van toenemende risiko’s sonder dringende klimaatoptrede. Die kommissie sê in sy konsep-aanbevelings vir die land se klimaatsteikens temperatuurstygings sal lei tot ‘n vermindering in mielieproduksie en watertekorte, wat voedselbeskikbaarheid sal raak. Suid-Afrika kan teen die einde van die eeu temperatuurstygings van tussen twee en vyf grade […]
# The City of Johannesburg’s Public Safety Department is set to launch its annual Disaster Risk Awareness and Winter Safety Campaign at the Kaserne Informal Settlement today. This is part of the metro’s winter risk preparedness strategy to prevent and reduce incidents that result in loss of life and property. The metro’s spokesperson, Virgil James, […]
# Eskom sê hy verskerp sy fokus op omgewingsprestasie en langtermyn volhoubaarheid. Die kragnutsmaatskappy het tot nou meer as drie-miljard-rand in vrystellingsverminderingsprojekte belê, met 15,6-miljard-rand wat vir die volgende vyf jaar toegeken is. Eskom se woordvoerder, Daphne Mokwena, sê hulle het noemenswaardige vordering gemaak met die vermindering van stikstofoksied-vrystellings uit hulle kragstasies. Sy sê die […]
# Mozambique’s Secretary of State for the Sea and Fisheries, Momade Juízo, has warned that illegal fishing, mangrove destruction, and plastic waste are posing serious threats to the country’s biodiversity. He has stressed the need to protect the two-thousand-700-kilometre coastline. Juízo says reforms are currently underway at the sector level, aimed at strengthening the political, […]
# Cosatu sê hy is diep bekommerd oor die skadelike wolk wat oor die aanstelling van raadsvoorsitters van die Sektorale Onderwys- en Opleidingsowerhede hang. Die minister van Hoër Onderwys en Opleiding, Nobuhle Nkabane, het die voorsitters se aanstelling verlede maand onttrek ná teenkanting van opposisiepartye en vakbonde, wat bewerings oor nepotisme en gebrek aan meriete […]
# The City of Cape Town’s Safety and Security Directorate has increased its staffing numbers in Somerset West to help maintain calm amid an increase in tensions between taxi organisations. Taxi drivers blockaded routes in Somerset West on Monday morning, following the killing of a Cape Amalgamated Taxi Association taxi owner in Lwandle, Strand, on […]
# The GOOD Party says the capture and deportation of climate activist Greta Thunberg and those aboard the Madleen may have unintentionally done more to draw global attention to the deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The boat carrying 12 people that was trying to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza was towed to the Israeli port […]
# The Presidential Climate Commission is warning that South Africa faces escalating risks without urgent climate action. In its draft recommendations for the country’s climate targets, the commission says rising temperatures will cause declining maize production and water shortages, which will affect food availability. South Africa could face temperature increases of between two and five […]
