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/ 14 September 2009
Five years ago the Paardekraal Tailings Dam, 5km north-east of Rustenburg, was a dust bowl
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/ 5 September 2008
The appointment of a new DG of the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism last month coincided with Cabinet’s approval of the NFSD.
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/ 5 September 2008
Particularly at this time of year, dust is the curse of desperate housewives. It is also the cause of sinus problems and lung irritations.
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/ 25 October 2007
In the real world justice is mainly for the wealthy. Do you have a spare R1 000 an hour for lawyer’s fees? This is not even what the top firms charge their corporate clients. And what of the lawyers themselves? They might have entered the profession dreaming of striving for justice and defending the innocent, but end up stuck in plush corporate offices helping the rich get richer.
Jubilation was written all over the faces of this year’s 14 recipients of the much-coveted Nelson Mandela Scholarship for post-graduate studies abroad. A Unilever initiative, the only "payback" condition is that “recipients must return to South Africa and apply their skills and knowledge here”. Auditing firm Deloitte is funding four of the scholarships.
Four years ago the National Association of Conservancies of South Africa (Nacsa) did not exist. Now it operates in seven provinces, with 750 conservancies, protecting about 30-million hectares of land. "That is five times more than SANParks and the provinces control, and we do it on no budget at all," says Nacsa chairperson Anthony Duigan.
First National Bank’s Bank City headquarters are smart, grey and, one might think, not particularly green. That’s where you would be wrong. As brightly coloured as the air conditioning and electricity conduits, Bank City is Âgetting greener by the day.
In 1991, the then Bophuthatswana Parks Board launched the Madikwe project by commandeering a few army planes to fly a pack of journalists up to a farmhouse in Herman Charles Bosman country. They were treated to a lavish feast and spun a seductive tale about the birth of a brand new game reserve.
Some parents are deciding not to have their children immunised, but the World Bank believes that after clean water, immunisation is the most cost-effective public health measure available. EVERY few years vaccinations get a bad press. This time, the deaths of a number of babies within a week of receiving the DPT (diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus) […]