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    Omanyano ovanhu koikundaneki yomalungula kashili paveta, Commisiner Sakaria takunghilile Veronika Haulenga

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Omaheke Farmers Struggle Amid Severe Drought

The drought situation in the Omaheke region has reached a critical level, with the area receiving only 40mm of erratic rainfall as of last week. According to reports from One Africa TV’s NewsOnOne journalist Ellen Shihepo, Agriculture Minister Carl-Hermann Gustav Schlettwein, while visiting the region, says livestock farmers are relying on the few remaining water sources.  

today4 February, 2025 62

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South Africa: new Drakensberg nature reserve will protect ancient rock art, wildlife, livelihoods, grasslands and water

          South Africa’s Drakensberg mountains have a new 6,500 hectare nature reserve. The new Northern Drakensberg Nature Reserve is working with communities and will preserve ancient rock art, vital grasslands and water sources for millions of people. It connects a neighbouring world heritage site to another nature reserve, expanding a huge transnational protected area from South Africa to neighbouring Lesotho. Most importantly, it will open a […]

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South Africa: Gold mine pollution is poisoning Soweto’s water and soil – study finds food gardens are at risk

    By Lesego Khomo, University of South Africa     For 140 years, gold mines in Johannesburg, South Africa have been leaking wastewater contaminated with heavy metals. The acid mine drainage from Johannesburg’s estimated 278 abandoned mines and 200 mine dumps includes uranium (a radioactive metal), toxic arsenic, copper, cobalt, nickel, lead and zinc. Acid mine drainage can pollute land and water sources up to 20 kilometres away from […]

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Rhinos can’t sweat, making them vulnerable to overheating: global warming could wipe them out in southern Africa

    By Timothy Randhir, UMass Amherst   Southern Africa is home to 22,137 of the world’s 23,432 white and black African rhinos. But they’re facing grave threats because of a warming planet. Now, the first study of how climate change affects rhinos in southern Africa has found that they will cease to exist in the region’s national parks by 2085 if the world takes the worst-case scenario climate change […]

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