Kristin Engel

South Africa recognised the right to a healthy environment 25 years before the UN General Assembly, but outdated laws and a lack of enforcement mean environmental racism persists.

South Africa recognised the right to a healthy environment 25 years before the UN General Assembly, but outdated laws and a lack of enforcement mean environmental racism persists.

For the past 50 years, Katot Meyer has been using his own makeshift tools to clear alien invasive plants from catchment areas to ensure a steady water supply for locals. Now he's urging others to get involved as he cannot do it alone.

The Western Cape has a budgetary shortfall of approximately R6bn after a year of unprecedented disasters that devastated families and destroyed infrastructure.

Scientist Christina Hagen is at the forefront of one of the most crucial conservation battles of our time – to save the African penguin from extinction. Hagen talks about what it's like spending almost 10 years behind the scenes, trying to halt the decline of this special species and bring it back from the brink of extinction.

The Hawks have made marked progress in the second quarter of the 2024/25 financial year with 1,194 arrests, convictions and attachment of assets, according to the unit's boss Godfrey Lebeya. The arrests targeted high-profile cases involving serious corruption, organised crime, commercial crime, police killings and wildlife trafficking.

Scientist Christina Hagen is at the forefront of one of the most crucial conservation battles of our time - to save the African penguin from extinction.

Sewage contamination incidents around parts of Cape Town's coastline, and the City of Cape Town's marine outfalls in Camps Bay, Hout Bay and Green Point, where sewage is pumped into the ocean daily, have sparked debate about public health, pollution and infrastructure failures.

Big changes are brewing at the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment in the Government of National Unity.

In its 2024 ‘F-List report', Clean Creatives South Africa names and shames 42 advertising and public relations agencies for working with fossil fuel companies, including TotalEnergies, Sasol, Shell, Engen and BP.