by Adam Cruise | Nov 14, 2025 | Commentary
By Adam Cruise – Daily Maverick This crisis is not an excess of elephants, but an excess of human walls, human weapons and human denial. If you only read the headlines, you’d think southern Africa is groaning under a booming elephant problem with no silver...
by Adam Cruise | Nov 13, 2025 | News
By Victoria O’Regan – Daily Maverick The President has also announced that Alexandra Abrahams will serve in the position of Deputy Minister for the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition. President Cyril Ramaphosa has removed Dion George as Minister of...
by Adam Cruise | Nov 12, 2025 | Commentary
By Adam Cruise – Daily Maverick Eskom’s proposed transmission line in Limpopo illustrates the cruel paradox of South Africa’s energy dilemma: a coal-dependent grid already fuelling climate change is now being expanded in ways that further destroy biodiversity....
by Adam Cruise | Sep 29, 2025 | Commentary
By Adam Cruise – Daily Maverick Carrying capacity came from livestock management in the US in the early twentieth century, where calculating how many cattle a pasture could support before overgrazing was a matter of profit. But elephants are not cattle. They are...
by Adam Cruise | Sep 19, 2025 | Commentary
By Christiaan Bakkes – Daily Maverick Somehow, Addo Elephant National Park has achieved a fine balance between effective conservation and expansion while earning the goodwill of its neighbours. If ever an elephant reserve could serve as a template for effective...
