KOEBERG like many Pressurised Water Reactor (PWR) nuclear plants, produces emissions of radioactive isotopes. The resulting 'effluent' is routinely released into the environment where it makes its way into the food chain. Annual allowable emissions known as the 'Annual Authorised Discharge Quanti...

THE WORLD has its fair share of prospective 'revolutionary ideas', objectives that have failed to pan out. Not for lack of trying, nor because a notion isn't any good on paper but rather the expression of a thought may not be based upon sound physics, or could be missing a vital technological bre...

CLIMATE SCIENTISTS have begun talking about a strategic 'managed retreat' as a response to climate change. This retreat they say is not an admission of defeat, but rather entails "a coordinated movement of people and buildings away from risks, which, in the context of climate change, are approach...

In 2016, 'two men pretending to be police officers' murdered Sikhosiphi “Bazooka” Radebe the founder of the Amadiba Crisis Committee, an environmental group opposed to mining in Umgungundlovu in Eastern Mpondoland.  In November this year, Fikile Ntshangase, deputy chairperson of the Mfolozi Commu...

SOUTH AFRICA is one of the few countries to have secured the right to a healthy environment alongside the right to health in its constitution, yet it took the crisis of a global pandemic for apartheid-era hostels in Alexander township to be deep cleaned. As our own Department of Health moved to c...

IT WAS during the dying days of apartheid, that I wrote a series of articles promoting 'ecological sustainable development' and deep ecology. The pieces published by Grassroots and South Press were extraordinary, the least of which is that they were published by a working class imprint shortly af...