Months after South Africa’s load-shedding pressures finally began to ease, its richest city, Johannesburg, is confronting a new, localised electricity crisis, but this time, instead of a failing national grid, the City is facing severe fiscal insolvency. Last month,...
Amidst deteriorating infrastructure and mounting service delivery challenges, the City of Johannesburg is preparing to host the G20 on 22-23 November. For the first time, South Africa, the only African member state of the G20, will host the summit, where the world’s...
South Africa recently hosted the G20 Meeting of Agricultural Chief Scientists in Limpopo, ahead of the G20 Leaders’ Summit being hosted in Johannesburg later this year. Senior agricultural scientists and policymakers convened to discuss strategies for mitigating...
The national budget presented earlier this month highlighted progress and earmarked changes for the evolving energy landscape. In 2024, South Africa had 300 days without load-shedding. But the fragility of the energy system and shifting global climate priorities...
Last month, President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the Electricity Regulation Amendment (ERA) Act into law, marking one of the most significant and potentially transformative milestones for South Africa’s electricity sector. The Act makes provision, and opens pathways, for...
This weekend, on the 9th of December, delegates convened at the “Powering Ocean Breakthroughs with 100% Sustainable Ocean Management” event at the 28th UN Conference of Parties (CoP28) in Dubai, to decide on “path-defining” nature-climate investment plans and...
Last month, Minister of Electricity Kgosientsho Ramokgopa proposed to delay the decommissioning of Eskom's coal-fired power stations. This comes amid ongoing challenges to end South Africa’s energy crisis and rolling blackouts (load-shedding). The country is now on...
In the past five years alone, the global community has experienced a series of unprecedented events that have drastically impacted economies, societies, and governance structures. The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, coupled with travel restrictions and supply chain...
Africa is home to an abundance of animal and plant species that attract criminal wildlife exploitation. Wildlife crime is one of the most lucrative illegal industries and it attracts – and is run – by sophisticated, transnational, well-organised criminal networks...
The 27th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP27) is taking place in Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh, running over two weeks (5 - 18 November). The COP aims to tackle key concerns on the global agenda toward action against climate change. This year's summit takes...
Months after South Africa’s load-shedding pressures finally began to ease, its richest city, Johannesburg, is confronting a new, localised electricity crisis, but this time, instead of a failing national grid, the City is facing severe fiscal insolvency. Last month,...
Amidst deteriorating infrastructure and mounting service delivery challenges, the City of Johannesburg is preparing to host the G20 on 22-23 November. For the first time, South Africa, the only African member state of the G20, will host the summit, where the world’s...
South Africa recently hosted the G20 Meeting of Agricultural Chief Scientists in Limpopo, ahead of the G20 Leaders’ Summit being hosted in Johannesburg later this year. Senior agricultural scientists and policymakers convened to discuss strategies for mitigating...
The national budget presented earlier this month highlighted progress and earmarked changes for the evolving energy landscape. In 2024, South Africa had 300 days without load-shedding. But the fragility of the energy system and shifting global climate priorities...
Last month, President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the Electricity Regulation Amendment (ERA) Act into law, marking one of the most significant and potentially transformative milestones for South Africa’s electricity sector. The Act makes provision, and opens pathways, for...
This weekend, on the 9th of December, delegates convened at the “Powering Ocean Breakthroughs with 100% Sustainable Ocean Management” event at the 28th UN Conference of Parties (CoP28) in Dubai, to decide on “path-defining” nature-climate investment plans and...
Last month, Minister of Electricity Kgosientsho Ramokgopa proposed to delay the decommissioning of Eskom's coal-fired power stations. This comes amid ongoing challenges to end South Africa’s energy crisis and rolling blackouts (load-shedding). The country is now on...
In the past five years alone, the global community has experienced a series of unprecedented events that have drastically impacted economies, societies, and governance structures. The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, coupled with travel restrictions and supply chain...
Africa is home to an abundance of animal and plant species that attract criminal wildlife exploitation. Wildlife crime is one of the most lucrative illegal industries and it attracts – and is run – by sophisticated, transnational, well-organised criminal networks...
The 27th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP27) is taking place in Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh, running over two weeks (5 - 18 November). The COP aims to tackle key concerns on the global agenda toward action against climate change. This year's summit takes...