The historical town of Magaliesburg with it's tranquil surrounds, unspoiled scenic vista's and high quality landscapes stands on the brink of destruction by the mining industry.
The South African Constitutional Review Comittee is currently entertaining a proposal from the House of Traditional Leaders to scrap the "sexual orientation" section from the bill of rights contained in Chapter 2 of the Constitution of South Africa.
Ms Maya is one of the five survivors of the nuclear tragedy who visited around a dozen countries to share their experience, but India is the only country to revoke the visa.
Our oceans are dying. Beset by pollution and demolition by industrial fishing, the magical and bountiful deep blue is turning into a barren desert. But in the next 72 hours, governments are considering a new rescue plan - and we can help push it through.
Microsoft, Amazon and Apple are dirtying your data. Let's ask their CEOs to clean-up and quit coal.
You can't get high on hemp, but you can create clothing, housing, food, fuel, natural plastics and other locally useful and globally marketable consumer products out of it. And oh yeah, did we mention jobs, and lots of them. Hemp is already a multi $ billion a year industry and growing.
Finding a solution to the short-term interests and ongoing unsustainable practices driving our societies and economies is a recurring issue. Few innovative ideas have emerged, fewer are being fully implemented and, as a consequence, we are exceeding planetary boundaries, threatening the security and wellbeing of those around us and those who follow us.
Should you care whether or not South Africa is fracked? The Treasure Karoo Action Group (tkag) believes you should and urges the country to take up their position in society in the fight against fracking.
What comes to your mind when you think of pollution? Thick black oil smeared on clean ice? Small piping shorebirds strangled by old plastic? According to the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU), you should be thinking of something entirely different - cruise ships.
Growing up as a musician in South Africa I witnessed first hand the man-made obscenity that was apartheid and used music to protest against injustice.
Fracking is already harmful to people and the environment, but South Africa has no trained supervisors for fracking operations. This lack of supervisors coupled with a low price of gas will mean companies cut all the corners they can, endangering the country even more.
South Africa's proposed carbon tax is set to act as just another tax on South Africans while inadequately addressing issues of climate change - the very problem it was designed to address. This is because the revenue generated will not be earmarked to tackle issues of climate change, rather it will simply flow into government coffers.
