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Solving environmental law confusion: Lawyer Lizette van der Walt launches innovative app
Lizette van der Walt is a lawyer specialising in environmental law. In her 27 years of experience, she noticed a general confusion around environmental laws in South Africa and decided to help by creating the Enviro Legal app. This app is designed to help users...
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Turning The Tide To Achieve SDG 6
Coming off the back of the WISA 2024 Biennial Conference and Exhibition, we can all agree that accelerated change is needed in achieving SDG 6 by 2030. As we celebrate 30 years of democracy this year and honour women during the month of August, it is fitting that we...
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[Industry Personality] Carin Bosman: Make noise and have a code
The water sector is filled with passionate people, Carin Bosman is one such passionate person, and she serves to remind us of all that water is for the betterment of humanity, and when you are tasked with doing what is right, you have to make some noise. Early on in...
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[Cover Story] 40 years strong: Lethabo Intake Pumping Station’s historic refurbishment
A part of Rand Water’s proactive infrastructure maintenance project comprised the refurbishment of pumps and electrical boards at the Lethabo Intake Pumping Station. This key facility pumps water to ESKOM Lethabo Power Station and supplies over half of Gauteng via the...
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Sustainability
African first incentivises recycling through immediacy
By Frances Ringwood Two brothers based in Johannesburg, Christopher and Justin Needham, have recently invested in a business which brings state-of-the-art ‘Reverse Vending Machines’ (RVM) to South Africa. The machines will promote recycling by...
Banking for a better environment
“If you change one thing about yourself, you have the potential to change everything!” This was a closing thought from Brent Lindeque, Good Things Guy and guest speaker at The Glass Recycling Company’s (TGRC) Annual Green Dialogues held last week....
Changing the waste management landscape
During the past two years, South Africa’s waste management industry has witnessed updates to the National Waste Management Act. Proper and professional waste management practices are advocated, and the implementation of environmentally conscious...
Green building to address climate change
Leaders in the green building industry have highlighted its potential to address both climate change and unemployment in South Africa. “The built environment offers one of the biggest climate change mitigation opportunities and it’s backed by a...
Corporate calls for sustainability first
Around 200 leaders from business, national and local government, NGOs, academia and media, and top local influencers including Graça Machel, gathered recently for the Unilever Collective Action Business Breakfast to discuss how implementation of...
The future of recycling isn’t what you think
The difference between a circular economy and a recycling economy, and why we should care By Hermann Erdman, CEO of REDISA (Recycling and Economic Development Initiative of South Africa) Our dominant linear ‘take-make-consume-dispose’ economy...
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GreenCape: Celebrating a decade of green economy growth
Since the official launch on 5 November 2010, GreenCape has leveraged its funding partnerships and industry networks to facilitate R41 billion worth of investment into the South African green economy, supporting the creation of 19 000 direct green...
COVID-19 pandemic offers African aviation a chance to reset
Africa’s aviation industry represents a huge market that the continent’s airlines need to exploit more fully, with technology and AI offering the way forward for expansion, regional development experts. “Technology and smart technologies are...
CESA discusses smart infrastructure for African cities
In the context of the global pandemic, the effects of climate change are biting down like never before, with wide-spread environmental and human health challenges. These concerns of our society are made two-fold due to the desperate need for...
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Cape Town calls for comments on draft water strategy
The City of Cape Town is calling on residents to provide feedback on its Draft Water Strategy which opened for public comment on Friday. The strategy, which aims to ensure that the City will be more resilient to future droughts, outlines the...
Load shedding jeopardising Johannesburg water supply
As load shedding plagued the country this past week Johannesburg residents were faced with the reality that their water supply could also be jeopardised by the rolling blackouts. In a statement released this week Johannesburg MMC for Environment...
Cape Smart Park unrecognisable following vandalism
The multi-million rand Seawinds Smart Park, near Lavender Hill in Cape Town has been reduced to a pile of rubble and ash after criminals vandalised the recreational space developed by the City. The facility, which cost approximately R7.6 million,...
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