Radical latte lovers are getting the bean rolling in a new campaign against big brand coffee giants like Starbucks. In a new and frothy front in the struggle to turn back globalisation, United States coffee lovers are being offered the chance to wean themselves off what critics deride as the same blends and decor of big coffee chains.
The Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism will — by the end of July — appoint a service provider to identify the top 50 air polluting industries or sectors in South Africa, said Minister Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk on Monday. "The web of life is more than just a poetic idea, it is a reality that defines our biggest social, economic and developmental challenges," he said.
Reports of intimidation and violence related to the one-day strike by taxi owners and drivers in KwaZulu-Natal have been received from around the province, traffic officials said on Monday. Thousands of commuters were stranded in the morning as taxi drivers embarked on a protest against the government’s taxi recapitalisation programme.
Legal loopholes mean that more whales will be killed this year than at any time since 1985 and pro-whaling nations are hoping for the first time to have a majority in favour of resuming the hunting when the International Whaling Commission meets on Monday morning.
The effort to combine work and studies is taking its toll on Desiré Rwamagana, a Rwandan refugee who lives in South Africa’s commercial hub, Johannesburg. ”Refugee life is hard. I work in the daytime and go to college in the evening. By the end of the day, I get so exhausted that I can’t even do my homework,” he said.
Beauty is … an 18-year-old girl in pink stilettos, walking to the sound of her own confident giggle. A native of Krugersdorp, Beauty Ramoroka exudes self-assurance and exuberance. She doesn’t subscribe to the popular concept of beauty that condemns plump, dark-skinned women. She, like many other South African women, is redefining ”pretty”.
The African National Congress (ANC) will have to ”look after” Jacob Zuma as long as he remains its deputy president, ANC spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama said on Sunday. Zuma lost his salary of about R800Â 000 and perks when President Thabo Mbeki sacked him as the country’s deputy president on Tuesday.
Members of Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) are turning Johannesburg into a bloody battlefield as they jostle for positions in the party’s structures, City Press newspaper reported on Sunday. This has prompted the MDC to send a ”high-powered” delegation to South Africa to try and defuse the situation, the newspaper said.
His loyal fans were there along with his mother and his brother. Even one of the jurors who last week cleared him of child molestation charges had turned up. In fact the only person missing from the celebration of thanks for Michael Jackson’s acquittal was Michael Jackson.
New Zealander Michael Campbell held off a charging Tiger Woods to win the 105th US Open on Sunday. The 36-year-old Kiwi finished level par 70 for the day and level par 280 for the championship to beat Woods by two strokes. It was a stunning showing by Campbell, who began the day four shots back of third-round leader and defending champion Retief Goosen.