Energy efficiency should become part of the nation’s psyche, and energy-wasteful practices should be seen as anti-social or even illegal, Minerals and Energy Minister Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka told an Energy Efficiency Week event.
Liberia’s war-battered capital Monrovia was relatively calm on Monday although government troops were battling rebels in the key port area, as the United States ordered extra troops into the city.
The new director general of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Jong Wook Lee of South Korea, took office on Monday, vowing to provide three-million HIV/Aids patients in poor countries with key anti-retroviral drugs within two years.
African agriculture is seen as a key part of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) in terms of its role in achieving economic advancement and poverty alleviation, said Nepad secretariat agricultural adviser Dr Richard Mkandawire, a citizen of Malawi, on Monday.
Billionaire Steve Wynn seems like one of those characters who could only exist in Las Vegas. Now 60, he has played as great a part in the creation of modern Las Vegas as anyone — and is now poised, with his latest, most spectacular venture, to leave his name permanently on the city’s skyline.
The Iraq war began in mid-2002 with intensive air strikes under the guise of enforcing the southern no-fly zone over the country, a senior US officer admitted in remarks published yesterday.
Every June since 1952 Ivo Kuljis has loaded his 80 lobster pots on to his modest fishing boat and pointed its prow due south to Palagruza, a rocky islet in the the Adriatic halfway between Croatia and Italy.
The Western Cape government has provided more than 167 000 Western Cape families with homes of their own since the start of the housing subsidy system, premier Marthinus van Schalkwyk said on Monday.
Sao Tome’s military junta and international mediators prepared to resume talks early on Monday after seven ministers and a legal adviser detained since a coup last week were allowed to return home.
South African gold mining company Durban Roodepoort Deep (DRD) may be forced to close its North West operations because of the weak gold price.