Sanral unveils green head office

The South African National Roads Agency Limited´s (Sanral) may be in the news for reasons many residents of Gauteng province would rather forget, but staff at the parastal´s head office in the capital city of Pretoria have reason to celebrate.The head office – on Schoeman Street – has been given a G

Loyiso Bala Fairtrade´s New Ambassador

SAMA award-winning musician Loyiso Bala took the honorary role as South Africa’s first Fairtrade brand ambassador on the 24th of April 2012; the momentous occasion ironically took place next to the slave bell at the Oude Libertas garden in Stellenbosch

South Africa´s children learn to be green

Grade seven pupils at Seripe Primary School in Mopani, Limpopo province, look with new eyes at the prolific birdlife in their area.After participating in National Birdlife Week as part of their Eco-Schools theme project in 2011, these children now have a basic understanding of how to identify birds

Planting trees in Zambia

Greenpop, an NGO based in Cape Town, will be planting more than 5 000 indigenous and fruit trees in Livingstone, in Zambia, in an effort to help reforest a country that has the world´s second highest deforestation rate.The planting will take place over three weeks in July 2012, when Greenpop will jo