Since the beginning of 2023, South Africa has been experiencing debilitating load shedding that has caused significant damage to the country’s economy, social cohesion and reputation as an attractive destination for investments, leisure tourism and conferencing. The power outages have forced a reckoning for South Africa’s baseload capacity and what needs to be done to improve energy availability going forward.

Although it is one the five poorest countries in the world, Madagascar is ranked among the world’s top tourism destinations due to its unique endemic fauna and lush flora. With its cosmopolitan growing population that has its origins in Africa, Asia and Europe, the island’s cultural riches often surprises visitors. Unfortunately, the lemur island has been facing a multitude of challenges on many fronts in recent years.

Globally, over 600 000 people still die of malaria every year, most of them children. The World Health Organisation Africa Region, with an estimated 234 million cases in 2021, accounted for about 95% of global cases in 2022. Climate change could make it worse. Rising heat levels are slowly causing the malaria belt to expand southwards into the SADC region. Are there eradication and elimination plans in place to counter this looking threat?

For a country of 14.9 million, Zimbabwe’s energy needs are much greater than installed capacity - 1700MW - can cover. In comparison, neighbouring South Africa produces over 60,000 MW of power for a population of 59 million people. Zimbabwe’s electricity penetration rate of 44% leaves nearly three-quarters of the country's population in the dark. Now, climate change is making this already difficult situation even worse.

To rethink the living through new imaginaries for and with the living, climate justice is essential. This requires a reimagination of humanity’s ontology vis-a-vis the natural world. To rethink the living through a socioecological transformation, we must transform our conceptualisation of humans in nature.

Magdalena Mwapinga farms fruits and vegetables. She had always looked forward to farming and began as soon as she completed her university degree. When she started farming at Mlandizi in the Pwani region (Indian coast) side of Tanzania, she never imagined that she would have to deal with the impacts of drought because the River Ruvu has always had a lot of water.

The effects of climate change are now more visible than ever, but nowhere more so than in Malawi where many know little to nothing about it. Questions are now being raised on why the country is being hit on so many fronts by drought, lower crop yields and cyclones, and what the authorities are doing for mitigation and adaptation.

Scientists, indigenous people and activists have long warned about the devastating consequences of the hyperconsumerist logic that mankind has adopted in a world of finite resources. Now, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2019) we are currently living the effects of a human-induced 1.1o increase in global temperatures with an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events.

Subron Ashok of Mauritius’ Centre for Alternative Research and Studies is feeling buoyant on the one-year anniversary of the MV Wakashio accident, a major oil spill in Mauritian waters that led to an unprecedented demonstration of popular ecology – a term coined after the clean-up campaign launched to deal with the oil spill. Since the spill, Ashok has seen hundreds of thousands of Mauritians rise up to demand better environmental protections, something that gives him hope for the future.

Ayanda Kota and his Unemployed People’s Movement (UPM) have grown tired of fighting a raft of service delivery issues from the sidelines - water shortages, drought, sewerage problems, unemployment, waste disposal, etc and so, for the first time ever, the UPM is joining forces with other Makana residents and civil organisations in a coalition known as the Makana Citizen's Front (MCF) to contest the next municipal elections.

As people around the world recognised and celebrated World Environment Day 2021 we wondered why efforts to address the climate crisis are not yielding any major victories. We believe that the missing link in ongoing climate actions is the non-recognition that climate change is a social issue.

A deep democracy Agriculture Green New Deal (AGND) in South Africa is long overdue. It is time to prioritise the economic, social and environmental dimensions of the land question.

It is time for an Agriculture Green New Deal (AGND) in South Africa. It is time for a great transformation, one that factors the social, economic and environmental dimensions of the land question and not just market considerations.

Would you be okay with your government auctioning your country’s wildlife to save it from drought? And would you be okay with them doing so without consulting you?

The entire Southern African Development Community (SADC) is reeling from the effects of multi-year droughts and accelerated heating, exacerbated by the adverse effects of a particularly strong El Niño. An overview.

South Africa has been plagued by persistent drought conditions since 2010. Although international media coverage has largely focused on the “Day Zero” campaign in Cape Town, the country is currently being devastated by two water crises, one of them nature-induced and the other, manmade.