The Chemical and Allied Industries’ Association (CAIA), the trade association in South Africa that supports members along the chemical industry’s value chain, held its inaugural monthly Environment Committee meeting on January 28 this year. A need...
The groundwater in many of Africa’s most crowded regions lies close to the surface, making it vulnerable to pollution, a new study shows. Regions along the Gulf of Guinea are at highest risk of groundwater pollution on the continent,...
Despite progress over the last decade, the development of infrastructure for electricity, water, sewerage, and roads remains an enormous challenge across the African continent, especially in rural areas, according to a new Afrobarometer survey. In...
Thousands of people visiting Mtubatuba in KwaZulu-Natal have to either “hold it in” or pay service stations to use their facilities as the town faces an embarrassing shortage of toilets. The town only has two working public toilets that are partly...
