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.
During last year’s WSSD, an historic greening initiative was taking place far from the public eye. Behind the scenes, the Jo’burg World Summit Company’s tender committee was testing a novel idea to shape the way in which both purchasers and merchants think of their goods and services.
Collect-a-Can, a pioneer of corporate environmental best practice in South Africa, celebrated its 10th anniversary in April this year. Valli Moosa commended the company on its efforts to increase public awareness about the importance of waste management.
The <i>King Report on Corporate Governance for South Africa 2002</i>, commonly known as "King II", focuses heavily on sustainability and sustainable development. It recognises that safety, health and environmental (SHE) issues may need to be dealt with separately for reasons of best practice or strategic planning.
The Sasol Safety, Health and Environmental Centre was awarded a special commendation in the Greening the Future 2003 Awards, in the category for corporations and corporate foundations, because of its proactive stance towards gearing Sasol to becoming a green corporation.