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The project was launched earlier this month at the Gugas’thebe Arts & Cultural Centre in Langa and aims to encourage entrepreneurship and assist the local community with access to sustainable livelihoods.
Nazeer Sonday, spokesperson for the PHA for Food & Farming Campaign, writes a letter to Mayor Patricia de Lille about the ‘heart of Cape Town’.
According to a recent study, the levels of human excrement and disease-causing pathogens in rivers around Stellenbosch are unacceptable and unsanitary.
Stephen Lamb and Andrew Lord's Green Shack featured at Design Indaba 2013 last week. They tell us about the concept that transforms temporary spaces into homes.
A survey has revealed that four out of 10 households in Cape Town's poor areas go without food at least once a week, it was reported on Wednesday.
The CAN DO! Trekking for Trash duo, Camilla Howard and Michael Baretta, have reached the halfway point of the their seven month, 3000km trek across South Africa’s shoreline picking up litter and educating local communities about the importance of looking after the environment.
"This house is more comfortable than our previous place, and I am very happy that we have lights because there is no electricity here,” says Nosango Victoria Plaatjie, proud occupant of a prototype eco-friendly dwelling in the informal settlement of Enkanini, Stellenbosch, called the iShack.
'Waste pickers are not fighting for the right to be on landfill sites, they are fighting to be part of the waste management system,€ said Mr Simon Mbata, representative of the South African Waste Pickers Association (SAWPA) at a workshop debate hosted by the Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA) in Midrand last week.
