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Rescuers use an excavator to transport a flood survivor, following flash floods and a landslide disaster in Devghat, in the Nepal's Nuwakot district on August 26, 2026. From the Himalayas to KwaZulu-Natal, the climate crisis is reminding humanity of something physics has been telling us for decades: borders offer no protection from a destabilised planet, says the writer.
CLIMATE CHANGE

From Nepal to South Africa: A planet pushed to the brink

Nepal’s devastating glacier-linked floods are not a distant tragedy. Kumi Naidoo argues that they expose the same climate injustice facing South Africa.

  • Kumi Naidoo
6 min read
Outside an earlier court case regarding #CancelCoal case.
COAL

South Africa’s new-coal plans may be dead, but the legal fight isn’t

Government challenges coal ruling in appeal court today

  • Vivian Warby
4 min read
Environmental activists calling on the government to “Cancel Coal” during protests a few years back.
ENVIRONMENT

“People are the economy”: what Tafelberg, Shell and coal are really about

When South Africa says it wants growth, what exactly are we counting as growth, and whose lives are included in the calculation?

  • Vivian Warby
8 min read