Protest outside Delft community health centre after baby’s death
The health department says the centre cannot treat patients who need specialist care and the child was referred to Tygerberg Hospital
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Limpopo villagers protest over “one-nurse clinic”
The department has now temporarily closed Valdezia clinic
Larry Rhoden replaces outgoing Kristi Noem as Governor of South Dakota
On Monday, Larry Rhoden was sworn in as Governor of South Dakota, a state in the United States. He replaced fellow Republican Kristi Noem, who resigned as governor following her confirmation by the United States Senate…
Electrification offers fashion a route away from coal
Garment factories burning coal is bad, and must stop. The fashion industry has largely aligned on this fact by now, with most high street brands (absent Patagonia, PVH, C&A and some others) having signed the UNFCCC’s Fashion Charter commitment to no onsite burning of coal at factories supplying T1 (final assembly and packing) and T2 […]
Cheap tik takes hold in Tshwane townships
An uptick in psychosis has followed
Community health workers must be made permanent, rules labour court
Over 50,000 people affected
Health workers bring Gqeberha hospital to a standstill
Strike since Monday at Dora Nginza Hospital over unpaid overtime
Brazil's coordinated forest restoration agenda reaches Davos
In the quiet Swiss town of Davos, Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain unfolds as young Hans Castorp’s brief visit to a sanatorium turns into a seven-year exploration of ideas, intrigue, and debates. The story ultimately becomes a metaphor for Europe’s isolation and decline before World War I. Since the novel’s publication in the early 20th […]
Over a hundred disabled and elderly people queue outside SASSA in Khayelitsha
Monday was the first day for disability grant applicants to make medical bookings
Gold mining threatens Congo's forest carbon project
This article was produced with the support of the Pulitzer Center Rainforest Investigations Network in collaboration with the Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism (CLIP). It is the first part of a two-part series, read part two here. Environmentalist Justin Landry Chekoua says he’s shocked by images of century-old trees uprooted and rivers contaminated in […]
The case for a universal declaration on nature
Attending the UN climate (COP28) and biodiversity (COP16) conferences during the past two years, it strikes this observer that the UN specialist environmental agreements on climate, biodiversity, pollution, hazardous waste, desertification, and so forth, all tacitly assume a global political context other than the one we are in. This political context is something we as […]
Chilean president Gabriel Boric makes historic trip to South Pole becoming the first head of state to visit and third head of government
Chilean president Gabriel Boric has made a historic trip to the South Pole to reaffirm his country’s "sovereignty claim" over its part of Antarctica, according to his office. Boric's visit has been hailed as a major…
In Fight Over Fortune, a Young Man Takes on the Kingmakers of Queens
Brandon Bishunauth is an unlikely candidate to pick a fight with a bastion of old-time machine politics.
Why Biden's administration left old-growth forests without new protections
Wikipedia defines a ‘nothing-burger’ as “a situation that receives a lot of attention but which, upon closer examination, reveals to be of little to no real significance.” That unfortunately applies to the Forest Service’s national old-growth amendment (NOGA), which despite President Biden’s executive order directing the agency to conduct an inventory of mature and old-growth […]
