South Africa may import significant amounts of white maize, used to make a staple food, for the first time since 2017 as the El Niño weather pattern withers the crop

Nestle SA plans to spend R2.5 billion ($132 million) over the next five years to improve growth and development of emerging local businesses across East and Southern Africa.

South African farmers are expected to harvest 19.3% less maize in the 2023/2024 season compared with the previous one, the government’s Crop Estimates Committee (CEC) said on Tuesday.

The proposed biodiversity goals include boosting the amount of land designated for conservation to allow the large-scale harvesting from wild animals, increasing the production and marketing of products from indigenous plants and promoting leisure hunting and tourism.

Environmental groups filed a court bid to block TotalEnergies’ oil exploration activity in South Africa, the latest spat between activists who support the elimination of fossil fuel use and energy companies operating in the region.

Cape Town resident Patrick Bongoy creates art from trash – and his work is now in line for a €50 000 prize abroad.

The SA Navy carried out explosives drills in False Bay’s Marine Protected Area last week even after a ministerial directive that said in January that these exercises must be moved.

Government has unveiled the 12 projects that will undergo preparation so that they can be bankable, among these being Eskom’s proposed gas power plant in Mossel Bay.

A historic migration route for sunbirds between the Table Mountain National Park and the Boland Mountains is being restored by the Ingcungcu Sunbird Restoration Project, using fynbos gardens in schools across the Cape Flats.

South Africa’s cash-strapped government can’t afford to fund the development of infrastructure that can withstand the impact of global warming and has to look beyond the national budget to come up with the money it needs.

Government wants to get more value from its unused properties, but it wants the private sector to help refurbish and operate these buildings, says an official.

South Africa expects efforts to boost its electric vehicle manufacturing to yield swift results, as manufactures start to take advantage of tax incentives from early 2026.

No “engineering solution” saved Cape Town from Day Zero – but rather the public support to reduce water consumption, says Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis.

There’s a new way for South Africa’s defunct national power utility to raise funding: So-called ‘transition credits’, says Nick Hedley.

The world’s biggest vaccine maker will start rolling out a cheap new malaria inoculation in Africa from May, bolstering the fight against one of the most deadly infectious diseases globally.

South Africa’s draft Integrated Resource Plan is severely misaligned to the country’s pathways for decarbonisation, exacerbates poverty while making electricity inaccessible and unaffordable, and causes health, climate and socio-economic harm, write Sibusiso Mazomba, Gabriel Klaasen and Masego Mokgwetsi.

A heat-mapping study seeks to help residents of Laudium, Atteridgeville, Buffalo City, and Khayelitsha survive rising temperatures in a warmer world.

UK oil and gas giant Shell on Thursday watered down key targets on cutting carbon emissions, sparking anger from climate campaigners, but kept its pledge for net zero by 2050.

The CSIR has been appointed to assess the environmental impact of developing a new port and special economic zone near the Namibian border, to support a green hydrogen hub in the region.

Civil society groups have lodged an application to have a court review Minister Barabara Creecy’s decision to uphold the environmental authorisation of a proposed gas plant in Richards Bay.

The City of Cape Town has submitted to Minister Barabara Creecy a report with outcomes from a public participation process about marine outfall permits – that have allowed it to discharge sewage into the ocean.