SCRAMBLE FOR WHITE GOLD Nearly 1,000 people face relocation in KZN lithium mine expansion plan 8 min 3 By Tony Carnie
GROUNDUP The Australian crayfish invading our rivers and threatening the Okavango Delta 6 min 2 By Fred Kockott and Kemunto Ogutu
JUMBO PROBLEM Bureaucratic delays could lead to ‘last-resort’ culling of SA elephants, Parliament is warned 8 min 1 By Don Pinnock
MUNICIPAL FAILURES SAHRC probe indicates Gauteng’s water crisis is a man-made disaster 5 min 3 By Lerato Mutsila
SWELTERING SHIFTS The ferrymen: SA’s taxi drivers face deadly heat on the job 10 min 0 By Leonie Joubert
By Bool Smuts Sustainable use of wildlife is a conditional promise — that SA has not reached 6 min 0 20 May 2026
INSTITUTIONAL NEGLECT Day one of water crisis hearings ‘arms’ SAHRC for a grilling of government 5 min 3 By Lerato Mutsila
REAM MACHINE Municipality’s paper-based admin processes expose gaps in sustainability and efficiency 4 min 0 By Kyran Blaauw
CLIMATE COSTS African children bear the brunt of a crisis they did not create 5 min 0 By Mark Tomlinson and Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi
By Adam Cruise The last zoo elephants: Why Johannesburg can no longer justify their captivity 6 min 5 18 May 2026
RADIOACTIVE ROSATOM Russia's controversial uranium mining plan threatens southern Africa’s vital aquifer 10 min 10 By Tony Carnie
WEATHERING EXTREMES Scientists challenge ‘business as usual’, calling for Southern-led climate scenarios to tackle the crisis 5 min 1 By Lerato Mutsila
By Adam Cruise A crisis in search of a policy: How KZN’s elephant ‘overpopulation’ is used to justify culling 5 min 0 14 May 2026
By Imraan Valodia Renewable energy transition in SA needs the embrace of both public and private ownership 4 min 4 13 May 2026
POLAR POLITICS Japan repeats transparency fiction at global thermostat Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting 8 min 0 By Tiara Walters
CAPE OF STORMS Cold fronts lash Western Cape – one dead, communities flooded and schools shut 6 min 0 By Lerato Mutsila
POLAR POLITICS Ireland vs the Ice Curtain — Dublin eyes decision-making powers in Antarctica 7 min 1 By Tiara Walters
POLAR POLITICS Iran war fuel chaos hits sub-Antarctic as remote Marion relief voyage severely delayed 5 min 0 By Tiara Walters
NOTES FROM A SMALL PLANET Totems: be alert to the creature that chooses you, it may shape your world 5 min 7 By Don Pinnock
STORY ARK Gut feeling: Wild Coast’s food heritage holds solution to ‘lifestyle’ diseases 12 min 1 By Leonie Joubert
