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  1. South Africa: Durban flood disaster unveils state climate sloth

    water reticulation pipes and the collapsed electricity system have left many residents without power and ... water for days. The death toll exceeds Durban鈥檚 prior record of 64 deaths from the Rain Bomb of April ... including sufficiently robust civil engineering and simple maintenance of already-inadequate storm water ...

  2. South Africa: The Neoliberal loo

    latrines and other devices to limit their consumption of water? A resounding yes was heard at the Africa ... water/sanitation infrastructure. Today, most African states are run by venal elites who don't care where their ... Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council is blunt: "The need is to take sanitation ...

  3. New evidence of systemic impoverishment of Africa

    Ecosystem Services鈥 (WAVES). Zambian forests, wetlands, farmland and water resources were聽 considered 聽the ... perhaps聽 not water 聽in this climate-catastrophic city) with the world鈥檚 most aggressive mining bosses and ...

  4. South Africa: Durban's greenwash ahead of climate conference

    Economy Environment Climate crisis Patrick Bond Durban Will the host city for the November-December United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP17) clean up its act? The August 23 launch of a major Academy of Science of South Africa (Assaf) report,聽 Towa ...

  5. South Africa: Out of elite fragmentation, a new consensus emerges

    (PPPs) including municipal water firms (Suez, Biwater and Veolia) and Gauteng鈥檚 highway e-toll managers ...

  6. South Africa: Campaign against new coal mines gathers momentum

    African infrastructure, including for electricity and water. More than 200 organisations have signed up in ... costs imposed by Eskom are extremely high, including the complete degradation of water sources, air ... tapped. Eskom was given responsibility for rolling out more than a million solar-powered hot water heaters ...

  7. Africa forced to clean up after a party it didn't go to

    debt." His examples are diverse: "Nutrients in exports including virtual water, the oil and minerals ... tailings, the harm to health from flower exports, the pollution of water by mining, the commercial use of ...

  8. Climate crisis: radical action needed now

    peoples' sovereignty over energy, forests, land and water; and sustainable family farming and peoples' ... devastate local water, fisheries and air quality). Institute director Gordon Laxer laid out careful ... arguments for exceptionally strict limits on the use of water and greenhouse gas emissions in tar sand ...

  9. Who killed Sajida Khan?

    the regulatory wheel, and gave the dump approval for permits, as did the national Department of Water ... Brokovich campaigning for clean water in Hinkley, California; Medha Patkar opposing big dams in India. ...

  10. South Africa: In the dark about global warming

    extremely costly in terms of local land use, peasant displacement, water extraction, energy consumption and ... peoples' sovereignty over energy, forests, land and water; and sustainable family farming and peoples' ...

  11. South Africa: World Bank's role in mine massacre, climate change

    complex, spewing vast pollution and undergirding apartheid. The old mines wrecked the water system with ...

  12. Bill Gates 'silver bullet' misfires at Mandela Lecture

    does Durban's retired water director now offer sanitation consulting to Gates, so too is the top ...

  13. South Africa: Public sector strike highlights crisis

    water cannon. On August 21, the courts ordered workers to return to jobs considered 鈥渆mergency ...

  14. Occupy the Durban climate summit

    control of our land, water and atmosphere to trade as nothing more than money-making commodities.鈥 One ...

  15. South African social justice research centre defies attack

    areas 鈥 climate, energy, water/sanitation, global and national political economy, survival strategies ...

  16. Beyond the WSF's 'trade fair'

    are also articulated as sectoral manifestos, like the very strong African Water Network of ...

  17. South African student protesters score win; race and class fuse in epic battle

    stun grenades, rubber bullets and water cannons. Refusing to come out to address the crowd, instead ...

  18. How Europe underdevelops Africa (but how some fight back)

    African countries face unreliable provision of public utilities (electricity and water); poor public ...

  19. Copenhagen summit: 'Seattle'-style protests needed

    home now leaking into Durban's bulk water supply at the Inanda Dam 鈥 the point is to get a general ...

  20. South Africa: Will World Cup party be worth it?

    a delusional new trade port nowhere near Africa鈥檚 largest harbour; disastrous water/sewerage breakdowns; and an ...

  21. Zimbabwe: Political rollercoaster hits another deep dip

    cash and basic goods 鈥 electricity, clean water, petrol, most medicines, many foodstuffs 鈥 epitomises ...

  22. A Nobel loan shark?

    housing, land, water, electricity and the like. Although criticism of Grameen "is still a minority ...