Scientists believe they have unlocked the workings of an ancient Chinese herbal remedy which has become one of the brightest yet most puzzling hopes in the war against malaria.
President Thabo Mbeki is to lead the South African delegation to the Southern African Development Community Heads of State and Government Summit in Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania, which kicks off on August 25.
It’s official. The SoBig.F internet worm is the fastest spreading e-mail plague of all time. MessageLabs, a company that filters e-mail for corporate clients around the world, says it intercepted more than a million copies of the virus in one day.
The stranded container ship Sealand Express stubbornly resisted another attempt to shift her on Wednesday night.
Exxon’s £1,3-billon Chad-Cameroon pipeline stretches 1 000km across arid lands and equatorial forest to the African coast. When it reaches west Cameroon it runs adjacent to an old wildlife reserve where, for centuries, thousands of indigenous Bagyeli pygmies have depended on the forest for hunting and medicines
Like all great oratory its brilliance was in its simplicity. Like all great political speeches it understood its audience. And like all great performances it owed as much to its delivery as its content. But what made this performance stand out was that it was both timely in its message and timeless in its appeal.
President George Bush’s top national security advisers yesterday held an urgent debate over whether to seek a new UN resolution backing an international stabilisation force, in the wake of Tuesday’s devastating truck bomb attack on the UN headquarters in Iraq.
The keynote speaker at the recent Greening the Future 2003 Awards ceremony was the CEO of South African National Parks, Mavuso Msimang. After being at the helm for the past six years, he has a wealth of experience in balancing the demands of sustaining natural resources and making an organisation profitable.
Experts say operating an effective global protected areas system would cost at least $45-billion a year, yet current expenditure on the existing protected areas network is in the region of $6,5-billion. This is one of the issues to be addressed at the Fifth World Parks Congress next month.
The Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism has set up a directorate for sustainable development coordination to follow up on decisions taken at last year’s World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD).