Shaun D Bennett20h ago

DFFE's R600m proposal to improve air-quality monitoring
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-06-09-weather-service-to-lead-ambitious-r625m-plan-to-monitor-sas-choking-air-quality-/

#airpollution #airquality #southafrica #southafricanweatherservice #naaqs #CREA #greenpeace #SouthAfricangovernment #DFFE

DFFE's R600m proposal to improve air-quality monitoring

Air pollution claims roughly 42,000 South African lives every year — yet more than half of our government-owned monitoring stations are completely offline. Now the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment has launched an ambitious new R625m proposal to overhaul this strategic grid, hand the reins over to the South African Weather Service and give a boost to environmental governance.

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JohnMar 22, 2024

#SouthAfrica: workers send rubbish to City Hall, “We don’t even have rats and ants, not even cockroaches in our homes, because there is no food.”

https://groundup.org.za/article/cleaning-and-greening-workers-to-it-that-nelson-mandela-bay-mayor-walks-through-trash/

#DirectAction #GaryVanNiekerk #DFFE #exploitation #ClassWar #inequality

“Cleaning and greening” workers dump rubbish on City Hall doorsteps in Gqeberha

Their stipends were paid a week late by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environmental Affairs

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