What is nuclear to you? Is it Bush’s ‘new killer’? A history text on the Cold War? What you’ve pieced together from newspapers on ‘weapons of mass destruction’ or simply Homer Simpson’s job? Maybe you’re convinced that nuclear power is the way of the future, and the ultimate solution to South Africa’s power crisis?
Africa is losing its forests
Written by Garth Meyer
The continent's rapidly growing population has lead to soil erosion, declining soil fertility, deforestation, desertification, water pollution, and loss of bio diversity. War, poor governance, and corruption are all adding to the environmental destruction.
Two people and a Cob house
Written by Michele Hofer
Two years ago Marc Pradavand and Yolande Delport packed there bags and left their home in Cape Town to begin their dream life in the small town of Riebeek East. They were early, the plan was to stay in Cape Town for another year, save there pennies and then set out. Marc and Yolande felt that if they waited the time would never be right for the life they truly wanted.
Having spent the past 7 years living in Johannesburg and only recently returning to my home town, I was aware of the drought but the reality of the situation only hit home when I actually started living here again. Multiple “awareness” billboards, super creative water saving lifestyles amongst my friends, and the sight of hundreds of home rainwater reservoirs really drove home that this is serious, that people get that and are actively taking steps to do their bit in conserving water, and that life in the 21st Century is as fragile as it ever was in the history of our planet.
