Young farmers in the Eastern Cape are set to benefit from improved irrigation infrastructure, which will enable them to extend their growing season, increase production and create employment opportunities. This follows a multimillion rand...
Abraham Moreo lives on a street flooded with raw sewage. The leak has been going on for so long in Letsopa in Ottosdal in the North West, that the sewage has carved out a riverbed. Now the provincial government is taking steps against the failing...
Every October over Transport Month, Engen rolls out free voluntary health screenings for truck drivers across South Africa. This annual initiative reaffirms its commitment to the health, safety, and well-being of the country’s transport heroes....
South Africa used its G20 Presidency to put clean cooking on the international agenda, launching a Legacy Programme to expand access across households, schools and communities and co-authoring an investment action plan with the International Energy...
As South Africa debates whether to legislate against late payment, Lulapay’s Vice President, Jordan Gosling, talks about how the need for suppliers to extend their terms to their own customers has turned them into involuntary lenders. As South...
The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has received 51 474 applications within the first four days of the opening of the 2027 application cycle. The early application figures demonstrate the continued importance of NSFAS in enabling...
By Dikeledi Molobela Water and Sanitation Minister Pemmy Majodina has called for sustained leadership and investment in Africa’s water sector, saying the continent’s development, climate resilience and economic growth depend on closing the water...
Water affects almost every part of daily life: drinking, sanitation, food production, health, jobs and the natural environment. Yet in South Africa, three million people don’t have clean running water, and 14 million have no flushing toilets....
In a waterfront settlement in Lagos, Nigeria, I watched from the shoreline as two men worked a stretch of lagoon from their canoe. One held the boat steady. The other dived underwater a few metres, then surfaced with a bucket full of sand, emptied...
Governance in South Africa’s crisis economy – to use the media newsrooms’ terminology for our current state of affairs – is hiccupping along. There is an ongoing tug of war between the good governance and the opposing poor governance...
