The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
The United Nations Development Programme has launched its Income Inequality Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa report during the African Economic Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Income Inequality Trends in sub-Saharan Africa: Divergence, Determinants, and Consequences explores and analyzes country trends and provides policy guidance that can help Sub-Saharan Africa reduce income …
The Gift of the Givers is expected to unveil its Beaufort West Witperd aquifer development project in the drought-stricken town on Monday afternoon. Last month, the Western Cape government denied that the town of about 37 000 residents had reached "Day Zero" with water supply. A spokesperson for the local …
Over 30 people have been injured and several houses were destroyed after a tornado hit the Midvaal Marina in Gauteng on Monday evening. Mayor Bongani Baloyi said at least 300 families have reported damages to their homes, some of which had been destroyed. Around 31 people have suffered minor injuries. …
Why is the Department of Mineral Resources trying to muscle in on the trust fund to be set up to compensate mineworkers with silicosis? Deputy minister Godfrey Oliphant says it's to prevent looting by lawyers appointed by courts as trustees. But previous attempts by the state to interfere in trusts …
South Africa, Chile, Oman and Sri Lanka want to follow in Kenya’s footsteps. They announced new measures including plastic bags bans, marine litter and ocean pollution, when their representatives visited Nairobi last week during the United Nations Environment Assembly. “For too long, we have treated the ocean as a bottomless …
Governments and national as well as corporations are driving the demand for water, land, fossil fuels, raw materials, and organic resources of all kinds, as never before. Previously intact ecosystems are being sacrificed to satisfy this hunger for resources. Thousands of people are losing their livelihoods as a consequence. But …
CHANCES are high that pelagic fisheries will diminish along the Atlantic coast of Africa, a scientist has concluded. Pelagic includes small fish such as sardines and herrings, as well as bigger fish such as tuna and pilchard. Norwegian chief scientist Bjorn Erik Axelsen of the Dr Fridtjof Nansen advanced research …
Cape Town – A church near the Parliamentary precinct made its opposition to the government's nuclear plans visible when it unfurled a big yellow banner on Sunday. "New-Clear Power NOT Nuclear," read the banner hung on the wall of the Central Methodist Mission church in Cape Town’s Green Market Square. …
Pretoria – More than 30 people have died following an outbreak of Listeriosis. Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi announced on Tuesday morning that while Listeriosis is a serious disease, it is a disease which can be treated with antibiotics. The virus is found in soil, water and vegetation. Motsoaledi said …
Cape Town — One of the crucial aspects of the largest HIV prevention trial in the world is nearing an end, with HIV counsellors wrapping up four years of door-to-door visits to many thousands of homes in and around Cape Town and the Winelands region. Over the past four years, …
Johannesburg - The Portfolio Committee on Water in Parliament has resolved that threats by the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) to cut off water supplies to defaulting municipalities are not a viable solution to resolve the matter Some municipalities and water boards owe DWS substantial amounts of money, in …
JOHANNESBURG, Dec 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The soaring "Chamber of Mines" building in central Johannesburg, a hub for South Africa's mining industry, is a symbol of a bygone era when pioneers began flocking here in the late 19th century to dig for gold. Today, it is also the site …
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges the world must meet today and in the future. Prolonged droughts and desertification are among the issues faced by many countries, especially in Africa and Asia, where the rural poor and smallholders are most heavily affected. If people are to survive in …
This report provides a cursory overview or snap-shot of the institutional and governance challenges that subsist and in many aspects have, arguably, deteriorated in the Department of Water and Sanitation. In summation, the central challenges facing the department relate to human resources (including capacity constraints, high staff turnover and vacancy …
The coal-fired unit in South Africa’s Limpopo province is a rare example of a Medupi project that has been completed ahead of time. It was scheduled for completion in July of 2018. Medupi will contribute 794 megawatts to the national grid and join the already linked units five and six, …
More than 5 million children go hungry in South Africa according to the Annual South African Child Gauge on Tuesday, Eyewitness News (EWN) reported. The report was compiled by the University of Cape Town's Children's Institute, Unicef, the DG Murray Trust, and the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation. The …
As the City of Cape Town’s water officials work tirelessly to avoid Day Zero, the Westin Cape Town, a hotel on the Cape Town International Convention Centre precinct, is 100% committed to the cause. The hotel currently saves around one million litres of water a month. The General Manager of …
Cape Town – Less than half of Cape Town’s residents adhered to the City’s 87 litres per day individual water consumption targets in the last two weeks, according to Mayor Patricia de Lille. In the City’s weekly water updates, De Lille said on Tuesday only 36% of Capetonians used less …
Scientists have created one of the first digital tools to track changes in South African fynbos vegetation. They hope it will inform land managers and policy makers about abnormal changes. “We could provide that information to the provincial Department of Environmental Affairs and they could then go and follow up …
Across 71 emerging markets a total of 34 GW worth of new solar capacity came online in 2016, an increase of 54% year-over-year and has more than tripled in three years, according to new figures from Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s annual Climatescope survey. New solar capacity is a big deal …
