Why should I be worried about climate change?  If nothing is done about climate change and we continue, among other things, to burn fossil fuels and chop down our forests at current rates, the following is predicted for South Africa: South Africa’s coastal regions will warm by around 1-2°C by about 2050 and around 3-4°C [...]

International Human Rights Day is marked every year on 10 December with activities led by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Day marks the anniversary of the Assembly’s adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.

The department of science and technology has launched a centre to focus on climate change research. The Access centre was launched by Minister of Science and Technology Naledi Pandor at the COP 17 climate conference in Durban on Tuesday. Speaking at the event, Pandor said that her department was focussed on climate research as one [...]

As heads of state and government ministers start arriving in Durban for the UN climate talks, negotiators are hoping that, come end of the week, some kind of political compromise will have been reached to break the stalemate on a range of issues. The 17th Conference of the Parties (COP 17) to the UN Framework [...]

Connect4Climate, is a global initiative that is supported by the World Bank. It encourages African youth to raise climate change awareness through an online photo/video competition – the winners of which be on show at the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference in Durban. The World Bank, in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Environment and [...]

The government and civil society have partnered to launch a unique Climate Train” to criss-cross South Africa raising awareness on changing weather patterns ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference starting in Durban on 28 November. The 17th Conference of the Parties (COP 17) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) takes place [...]

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Education beats poverty: one extra year of schooling increases a person’s earnings by up to 10%. 171 million people could be lifted out of poverty if all students in low-income countries left school with basic reading skills. Education promotes gender equality by helping women control how many children they have. In Mali, women with secondary education or [...]

On behalf of the team at Devterms, we would like to wish Archbishop Desmond Tutu many happy returns in celebrating his 80th birthday.

About Hands Up 4 Education “Hands Up 4 Education” is the Department of Basic Education’s campaign that seeks to mobilise and encourage all South Africans to put their hands up in support of education. Education is indeed a societal issue, one that is shared and supported by all South Africans. In raising our hands in [...]