Environment
New book charts jumbo project
Andries Botha toured the world with his elephant sculptures, capturing the public’s imagination and doing much for conservation. But in his home town, the project trampled on a few toes.
Chaos as residents dump outside dump
Rubbish piled up on the roadside outside Pietermaritzburg’s New England Road landfill site after it was closed. Kerushin Pillay of The Witness reports.
Schools threaten legal action over landfill
A civic group has threatened legal action against the authorities if they fail to tackle toxic problems at a Pietermaritzburg landfill site. Fatima Khan and Matthew Hattingh report.
The diary of a bootlegging baldy
Logged out from news desk duties, former Witness photographer, Ian Carbutt, files his first ‘Diary of a Bootlegging Baldy’ from Da Nang in central Vietnam First published by The Witness
Civil action could address Mdloti river pollution
Sick Durban river spoils popular recreational lagoon
Harrismith: When the going gets tough, the tough get going
The people of Harrismith have set out to fix what has been broken by years of corruption and theft under Jacob Zuma’s ANC and the premiership of Ace Magashule. Theirs
Headless sharks, scarce great whites and the danger of fish and chips Down Under
It was a bizarre and disturbing sight. About 100 sharks – beheaded, finned and gutted – dumped on Strandfontein beach along the False Bay coast. Why were they there? What
Authorities pooh-pooh claims of faecal contamination at an Umhlanga beach as hundreds hit by gastro
Scores of holidaymakers have reported that they contracted a gastro bug after swimming at Umhlanga’s Bronze Beach. But authorities say the lurgy wasn’t in the seawater, writes Fatima Khan. First
Negotiating a water-scarce world
Can the water-rich mineral Ringwoodite provide humans with water in the future and become the “gold of the 21st century”? asks Fatima Khan
Alarm over mass vulture poisoning in Zululand
Another vulture poisoning incident, discovered two days before Christmas in far northern KwaZulu-Natal, has sparked warnings that the region’s diminishing vulture populations could face extinction if belief-based use is not
