South African Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Dion George has published draft regulations for the banning of plastic microbeads, and plans to start phasing out single-use plastics.

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About 200 activists marched to the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday to support Wild Coast communities opposing seismic surveys and oil exploration rights granted to Shell and Impact Africa.

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“We don’t have to switch on Netflix to hear guns. We sleep, we eat, and we wake up with gun violence,” said Lynn Philips of the Cape Flats Safety Forum.

About 100 people joined an anti-gang and drug march in Mitchells Plain on Sunday.

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Tons of plastic packaging fill our rivers, wetlands and seas, yet the large multinational corporations that produce them face little accountability.

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Scores of people picketed outside the Red Cross Children’s Hospital in Cape Town on Thursday to protest Israel’s use of starvation as a “weapon of war”.

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Microplastics come at us from almost everywhere, from broken-down plastic packaging and consumer goods, from synthetic clothing and carpets, from car tyres wearing down on roads.

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Brainwashed by plastic: from the womb to the brain

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Brainwashed by plastic: Part 2 coming tonight

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COMING 29 APRIL 2025, the first of a six-part series on one of the riskiest uncontrolled experiments inflicted on the environment — and on us all.

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Pro-Ukrainian protests on Sunday and Monday were interrupted by supporters of a rival of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Pretoria, and by pro-Russia supporters in Durban.

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Stellenbosch students are protesting about financial exclusion and housing.

Second of day of protests rocks UCT campus. Students storm administration building, block entrances

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This Cape Town crèche is being built from used tyres, bottles, eco bricks and other recycled waste

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