Eleven EcoRangers recently completed the classroom training phase of Meat Naturally Africa’s (MNA) EcoTrainer programme, in what the organisation is calling a significant milestone in an effort to build genuine career pathways for herders in South...
The hills in South Africa’s Eastern Cape are connected to the families who live there. Farmers grow their crops in the soil while animals graze on the vegetation. But over time, the Albany thicket covering large parts of the landscape has...
In an age of instant communication, it is easy to assume that everyone receives disaster warnings. Smartphones buzz, sirens sound, alerts flash across screens. But for millions of people who speak minority or Indigenous languages, the message often...
Villagers from Bityi, near Mthatha in the Eastern Cape, are digging into their already stretched social grants to pay for repairs to a gravel road in the area. Residents say taxi drivers had refused to travel beyond the tarred section, forcing...
