More technically, it's an evaporation pond with a deceptive tranquillity that hides a toxic threat. These ponds are laced with uranium, lead, copper, arsenic, and other heavy metals. In this same water, children swim, livestock drink, and runoff silently leeches into the lives of the surrounding communities.

#GRStories - 22 year-old Fatuma, a proud mother of two, started her own business selling vetkoek to survive the harsh conditions refugees are subjected to in South Africa.

Originally published on Waste Pickers Makhanda Waste Pickers Makhanda demand to be included in waste management strategies in Makhanda. ...

This is "Ntirhisano Revolutionary House," said the roaring young lion hailing from Khayelitsha townships in Cape Town. When Makoti first...

A group of women from Gate 7 informal settlement started a vegetable garden, near their informal settlement in Gate 7, Kensington. Law enforcement commanded the women to cease these activities as it constituted land invasion.