HOW TO SERIES PART 1: How to go off the grid with solar
Today starts our new HOW TO SERIES – on demand by you our readers...
Meet the mysterious Sackcloth People of Table Mountain (video)
Unlike many other hawkers, they aren't selling cheap Chinese imports, but medicinal herbs, roots and plants. Barefoot and clad in hessian, the Sakmanne, or Sackcloth People...
Zuma signs away our access to natural health
It has happened. President Jacob Zuma has signed the Medicines and Related Substances Amendment Bill 6 of 2014 into law in terms of section 84(2) of the Constitution...
Homeless men painstakingly clean Cape Town beach because they “want to add value”
A small group of homeless men painstakingly scrape Sunset Beach in Cape Town every day, clearing it of rocks, shells and other debris...
Koeberg sitting alongside fault line
Cape Town - Koeberg nuclear power station is sitting alongside a geological fault which gave rise to an earthquake in 1809 that was the same magnitude as last month’s earthquake...
Drug waste in SA’s drinking water raises health concerns
Traces of antiretrovirals, anti-epileptic drugs, antibiotics and antidepressants are allegedly lingering in South African tap water. (Also read our article: Why South Africa could be edging towards a water crisis) Compounds of these drugs have been found in several studies on water sources around South Africa between 2013 and June 2015. Read more...
A different type of grid is needed to solve SA’s energy challenge
South Africa would get a much better return on its energy investments if it planned a smarter and more flexible electricity grid, Institute for Security Studies (ISS) researcher Steve Hedden said on Tuesday. A better grid would also boost the contribution of wind and solar energy. Read more...