Month: May 2019

  1. Environment
  2. Ocean Watch
A DURBAN marine biology student hopes to be become a game setter in saving the Pondoland Marine Protected Area (MPA) from heavy minerals mining. RALPH MAKADI  and CRAIG BISHOP report.   Natalie dos Santos is among a cohort of young marine biologists  and intrepid Roving Reporters embarking on expeditions and hikes to promote alternatives to […]
  1. Environment
  2. Ocean Watch
A group of sea-sunned, East London open water swimming obsessives are also pulling out all their strokes to support eco-tourism, marine conservation and associated environmental journalism training in the Pondoland Marine Protected Area which has been earmarked for heavy minerals mining. “Living here, we have easy access to the Wild Coast, and have all retreated […]
  1. Social & Justice
Our heroes have always been different from the norm. Picking on Caster Semenya amounts to double-standards, says writer-producer Gordon Greaves What the International Association of Athletics Federations has done to Caster Semenya is hypocritical and contradictory to its own rulings. Logically, if the IAAF applies these restrictions to Caster, it must apply similar restrictions to […]