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...
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...