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Water shortage in Acornhoek Part 2: The Reconnection Effort.
By December JG Ndhlovu The RDP village in Acornhoek has been without constant potable water supply for many years now, actually the residents of this village have been experiencing potable water supply problems from around 2010 and they have been getting water from a pipe to Tintswalo Hospital that was accidentally discovered by one lady…
Brief report of the Limpopo Dialogue on Farmer-Managed Seed Systems and Agroecology
By December JG Ndhlovu (ndhlovuj@ymail.com) The Limpopo Dialogue on Farmer-Managed Seed Systems and Agroecology workshop happened in Wits Rural Campus in Hoedspruit. The workshop started on the afternoon of the 20th and ended on the afternoon of the 22nd January 2020 and was organized by African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) in collaboration with the Association…
Climate Change is here: Are we ready?
By December JG Ndhlovu (ndhlovuj@ymail.com) Even with the sun out of sight during the early hours of the night, the heat still persists; it feels hot like one is standing in direct sunlight. It is just a day before Christmas and usually these are times when we are struggling to cope with excess rains, but…
Water shortage in Acornhoek: The plight of the Orpen RDP Village part 1
By December JG Ndhlovu ( ndhlovuj@ymail.com ) Orpen RDP Village is a residential area in the rural outskirts of Acornhoek, in the Sand sub-catchment area close to the Orpen Gate of the Kruger National Park. This residential area is very poor with a high unemployment rate, comprised of mostly women who are dependent on monthly…
Action-packed November for Permaculture Explorers
November was a VERY busy month for Permaculture Explorers. We had a break from our usual permaculture and business development classes. December Ndhlovu, Community Gardener and Water Activist, delivered a class about the water crisis in the Bushbuckridge area which is severely affecting communities and putting the women’s food gardens and livelihoods, and thus the wellbeing…
Water crisis deepening in Bushbuckridge, Part 2: What could be happening?
Written by December JG Ndhlovu ndhlovuj@ymail.com 28 November 2019 Gone are the days to question if there is anything like Climate Change and Global warming because most countries have already experienced devastating, unusual weather patterns. The impacts of the changing weather has since 2016 intensified globally and we are now at a stage…
The Right to Water
Our local newspaper, Kruger2Canyon, published an article titled “The Right to Water” on our work in their latest edition.
Water crisis deepening in Bushbuckridge: Part 1
Bushbuckridge’s water challenges seem to be escalating daily and the last two months have been a nightmare for some communities in this area. In the last ten years the Bushbuckridge Local Municipality (BLM) has dismally failed to render potable water supply to most villages in Bushbuckridge, which resulted in many protests and marches demanding better…
Large scale industrial timber plantations contribute to crisis in the Bushbuckridge area
by December Ndhlovu, 4th October 2019 Bushbuckridge is one of the areas that were declared a “Presidential Nodal Point” in 2001 during Thabo Mbeki’s first presidential tenure. A presidential nodal point is a municipality that is identified a high poverty area and these municipalities are declared by the President of the country. Bushbuckridge is a…
Community activists as catalysts for change
By December Ndhlovu In the last 10 years, the Water Research Commission (WRC) presented an opportunity to community-based environmental activists to conduct research on issues that are of concern to them through a project that is known as the “Social Learning or Change Project”. This is an 18 months short course offered through Rhodes University’s…