Author: staff
Two weeks after the sheriff evicted homeless people outside the Castle of Good Hope, the City of Cape Town and the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure, along with community members, planted trees and beautified the area for the summer tourism season.
Almost 5% of the world’s carbon emissions come from the healthcare sector. Rethinking how hospitals run and deal with waste can get this figure down. But South Africa’s healthcare workers say regulations are stopping them from doing this – and so playing their part in slowing climate change.
The Hawks’ Priority Crime Specialised Investigation (PCSI) together with the National Prosecuting Authority’s Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) have successfully secured a forfeiture order of over R10 million against an alleged illegal miner, including R5 million in cash, gold worth R4 million and a 4X4 vehicle.
Trump’s recent election win is hardly a shock. If his economic nationalism succeeds, it could embolden SA’s leaders to pursue more isolationist or populist policies. Or it could serve as a reminder of the importance of balance, says Handre Retief.
At its core, climate finance is about how we pay for climate action – both reducing emissions and adapting to climate impacts. But this isn’t just about distant financial transactions. Climate finance affects our daily lives in countless ways, say the authors.
Medical practitioners have warned against using Ozempic for weight loss, stressing it is for diabetics and the demand has created a shortage for diabetics. The doctors also highlighted risks of counterfeit versions sold on the black market.
The SA Human Rights Commission is investigating an allegation by a community member of Stilfontein in the North West that the police’s action in denying scores of illegal miners trapped underground in an abandoned mine shaft of food, water and medication could cause their deaths.
Woolworths has launched its own probe into a counterfeit operation involving canned pilchards, it said on Saturday. This comes after police arrested 7 suspects and seized printing equipment and a large consignment of pilchards earlier this week.
Tensions ran high during a debate at the Western Cape legislature on Thursday. MPLs voiced their frustrations over failures by the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) to provide adequate services to the province’s social grant recipients.
In a by-election campaign in Bedford on Wednesday, Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane got more than he had bargained for when he discovered that Raymond Mhlaba Local Municipality had built a shack for a family whose house was gutted by fire.