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.
South Africa’s first water reclamation plant, the Emalahleni Water Reclamation Project, is expected to be up and running by July. The project is a brainchild of Anglo Coal South Africa and is this year’s winning project in Greening the Future’s category of companies with innovative environmental strategies that improve business performance.
What happens when ordinary people go that extra mile? Well, grade 11 learners at Weston Agricultural College in KwaZulu-Natal can tell you: they win awards, repeatedly. But, more importantly, they bring about real change for people living in their community.
Newspapers are fond of the apocalyptic story: we are extremely good at predicting the end of things. So, it is no surprise that newspapers have been writing their own epitaphs for at least the past decade. However, this week’s World Association of Newspapers conference in Cape Town showed that print is not dead, but newspapers as we know them are changing quickly.
Ronnie Kasrils (”Israel 2007: worse than apartheid”, May 18) is not wrong in likening his recent visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip to ”a surreal trip back into an apartheid state of emergency”. Following nearly seven years of constant conflict, a thoroughly abnormal situation has come into being with regard to the relationship between Israel and the Palestinian territories, writes David Saks.
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The so-called ”Special Browse” report alleging that Jacob Zuma had enlisted the help of African heads of state in his succession battle bore ”malicious intent”, Director General in the Presidency Frank Chikane said on Wednesday. He said the report was aimed at causing confusion, mistrust and division in the government.
A South African doctor’s recent call for compulsory HIV testing triggered a lively debate on Wednesday at the South African Aids Conference in Durban. ”It’s dangerous to go this route,” said Heidi van Rooyen of the Human Sciences Research Council.
Hundreds of Ethiopian troops trying to protect Somalia’s fragile government went house-to-house searching for weapons on Wednesday, a daunting task in a city teeming with firearms. Several people were arrested and accused of being linked to an insurgency blamed for a string of deadly suicide bombs and other attacks.
Young people have not benefited from South Africa’s economic growth as most are still unemployed, African National Congress Youth League president Fikile Mbalula said on Wednesday. He was addressing about 1Â 000 protesters, made up of mostly young people, who gathered at the Union Buildings to protest against a lack of jobs for the youth.