The National Institute for Communicable Diseases confirmed the first COVID-19 case on 05 March 2020. Proactively, the Government of South Africa acted swiftly by declaring COVID-19 a disaster in terms of the Disaster Management Act (57 of 2002). In...
Close to 17,000 water tanks and over 1 200 water tankers have been delivered around the country to communities in need during the Covid-19 pandemic. This is according to what the Water and Sanitation Minister, Lindiwe Sisulu said on Wednesday. This...
An additional 141 water tanks have been rolled out by the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) across needy areas of Gauteng to push back against the rising tide of the novel coronavirus pandemic. So far, 1 926 water tanks have been distributed...
Lessons learned from the global response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic give positive signals on how the world can deal with the devastating impacts of climate change. In a new paper, the African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) of the Economic...
