But not everyone is impressed with this eco-friendly gesture, writes Surika van Schalkwyk.
More than a month after xenophobic attacks shook Gauteng, feelings of desperation worsen among thousands of foreigners housed at temporary shelters.
Diesel use in South Africa, driven by home generators and the trucking of coal to Eskom power stations
Food prices are expected to rise rapidly in the next year because farmers are planting less as input costs escalate.
The Out of the Box Environmental Education Programme has learners and teachers across the country literally thinking outside the box.
Welfare workers are picking up an alarming increase in the number of abandoned babies, seeing in it the effects of growing economic distress — and particularly rocketing food…
It’s freezing cold under a grey sky. Discarded pictures from a child’s colouring book swirl in the wind. A whistle blows and hundreds of people camping at the Jeppe police…
Experts say the often chaotic land reform programme has compromised food production: white farmers facing land claims are reluctant to plant crops, while emerging black farmers…
South Africa faces a growing food crisis with declining domestic wheat production threatening to escalate food prices. Critics say the drop is because of a combination of…
Inflation has broken through the 10% barrier — raising fears that South Africa is entering a period of "cost push inflation" as trade unions warn they intend to ask for…
South African employers have short-changed the country’s intellectually impaired by employing only workers with physical disabilities and not intellectual ones. An oversight in…
Surika van Schalkwyk looks into a training programme that aims to protect mentally disabled children from sexual abuse, and says with derogatory language still so recently used…
Driving drunk can change lives forever, yet many South Africans — perhaps lulled by a lack of effective law enforcement — do it every day.
Poverty is one of the biggest challenges Southern Africa faces. Here many people still live on less than $1 a day. Last August, the Southern African Development Community summit…
Critics estimate that businesses, and thus the country’s economy, are losing millions of rands each year to HIV/Aids. Research shows that between 10% and 40% of the country’s…
If the economy is giving you a headache, relief, at least in the form of Disprin, is not at hand. The country has been gripped by a Disprin shortage over the past five months.…
On a wall outside a crumbling school in rural Gokwe, central Zimbabwe, a battle is being fought. A youth is pasting a Morgan Tsvangirai poster over graffiti, written in bright…
South Africa’s tap water is of the highest quality, yet we consumed 260-million litres of bottled water in 2006. It takes three litres of water to bottle one litre of water in…
About 20 000 stolen — but recovered — cars worth an estimated R2-billion are needlessly crushed in South Africa every year. Many are in poor condition, but some are top of their…
Solar-powered billboards in Jo’burg and Cape Town have brought heat and electricity to two townships and helped to shine the spotlight on some of the issues facing the…
