I can’t get no satisfaction, complained rock legend Mick Jagger back in the swinging Sixties. Maybe the pair should have moved to Africa. According to the Durex Global Sex Survey, South Africans and Nigerians are among the most satisfied people in the world when it comes to sex, or having the most orgasms.
The government plans to cut rush-hour traffic around South Africa’s big cities by at least 20% over the next three years, Transport Director General Mpumi Mpofu said on Tuesday. She warned of future steps to discourage ”single-occupancy vehicles” such as more dedicated highway lanes for high-occupancy vehicles.
Cape Town mayor Helen Zille says she will stand for the post of Democratic Alliance leader at the party’s federal congress in May this year. She made the announcement at a Cape Town Press Club dinner on Thursday evening, a year to the day after being elected mayor of Cape Town.
The government is looking at underground storage of carbon dioxide from coal-fired power stations as a way of reducing the millions of tonnes of greenhouse gases the plants belch into the country’s atmosphere each year, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk said on Wednesday.
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/ 23 February 2007
President Thabo Mbeki has called on traditional leaders to tackle corruption in their ranks, and urged them to lead by example. ”I must say that I am aware that some of the provincial houses [of traditional leaders] have been addressing matters relating to the conduct and discipline of their members,” he told members of the National House of Traditional Leaders on Friday.
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/ 20 February 2007
South Africa is considering enriching its own uranium to fuel new nuclear power plants — including pebble-bed modular reactors — to be built in coming decades, Minerals and Energy Minister Buyelwa Sonjica said on Tuesday. Speaking at the opening of the French-South African Energy Conference, she said her department is finalising an energy and technology strategy.
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/ 20 February 2007
Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk dealt canned lion hunting a death blow on Tuesday by outlawing the hunting of captive-bred large predators within two years of their release on a property for the purpose of hunting. He told journalists in Cape Town he intends ”putting an end, once and for all, to the reprehensible practice of canned hunting”.
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/ 14 February 2007
Electricity supply in South Africa will remain uncertain for the next five years, with a reserve margin of just over half of what it should be, Parliament heard on Wednesday. Anton Eberhard, a professor at the Graduate School of Business, said one of the main reasons for this was a Cabinet decision not to allow Eskom to build new generating capacity.
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/ 9 February 2007
How does one dry more than 300m of red carpet that has been rained on and then walked over by hundreds of MPs and dignitaries, including a president? This was the soggy problem parliamentary staff faced on Friday after all those attending President Thabo Mbeki’s ninth State of the Nation address had left and gone home.
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/ 7 February 2007
The productivity of South Africa’s mining sector has not been affected by the Aids pandemic to the extent forecast in some of the ”doom-and-gloom” scenarios of a decade ago, the Chamber of Mines said on Wednesday. The chamber’s chief executive, Mzolisi Diliza, said that intervention strategies now mean that up to 94% of workers being treated are returning to work.