Our Living Community - 26 November 2025

This episode is all about technology and how the Volunteer Wildfire Services’ firefighters use simple devices to fight fires and communicate important information to help manage and direct not only a current fire but also future fires. Lee Kleinhans and Otto van der Walt are still sitting by a stream…

Capetonians are very familiar with the wildfire season which is normally during the hot and dry summer months. They've certainly seen their share of fires on Table Mountain and saw how devastating they can be. In this episode Lee Kleinhans from Volunteer Wildfire Services tells Otto van der Walt what…

We start a hot new series this week on the brave volunteers who have to keep a cool head in hot conditions. They are the volunteers who make up the Volunteer Wildfire Services. Otto van der Walt spoke to Lee Kleynhans from the organisation about their origins and special training…

We're ending off our focus on the Freshwater Research Centre with a look at two of their projects that the public can get involved with. The first is a national database system of research data that is updated by the public, and that has been so successful that it is…

Our rivers and wetlands serve various important functions in the environment. But what would it cost us, in monetary terms, in rands and cents, to replace those functions with made-made solutions? In other words, if we didn't look after our rivers and wetlands, what would it cost us to install…