Decolonise health care

Finally people are getting the idea - to become health professionals effective within the fairly unique South African context, we need to be educated in a way that prepares...

Earthlife wins first case against coal power

Earthlife Africa took Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa to court after she granted environmental authorisation for the establishment of the 1 200 megawatts coal-fired...

Zim men create thriving farm on ‘useless’ land in Malmesbury

Albert Zinhanga and four friends met the landowner when buying an ox for slaughter at N7 Meat in 2014. Noticing fallow land, they asked why it was unutilised...

Gold-medal winning champ lives in a South African squatter camp

Irene is a young Afrikaans girl who lives in a shack in a squatter camp near Pretoria, South Africa. They have no electricity or running water, and Irene owns no shoes...

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...

Shopping to make a difference

Viva to the Capetownians who consider where their food comes from, who shop local, organic and seasonal, who support community empowering farming initiatives...

Desertification step 1: drought and fires courtesy of climate change

Climate change is making floods, fires and droughts more frequent and severe, by intensifying the circulation of water on, above and below the surface of the Earth...

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...