Rothschild Australia and Australia-based environmental group E3 International have launched a new fund to allow highly polluting companies to offset their emissions by buying carbon credits from cleaner firms.
The Bloemfontein High Court has granted an urgent application that four inmates of the Grootvlei prison – who exposed jail conditions by means of secretly-made video recordings – not to be moved to another prison.
The cause of Saturday’s fire at the Empangeni Road Traffic Inspectorate was arson, the KwaZulu-Natal department of transport has confirmed.
Two 27-year-old men have been sentenced to two life terms of imprisonment each for an attack on a honeymooning Polish couple two years ago, police said on Friday.
The United Democratic Movement will on Wednesday attempt to persuade the Constitutional Court that its application against the defection legislation should be heard as a matter of urgency.
The latest hotel occupancy statistics confirm Tourism Minister Valli Moosa’s description of South Africa as a ”hot” tourist destination.
The African National Congress (ANC) gained an overall majority in eThekwini municipality on Tuesday when six councillors took advantage of the floor-crossing legislation to join it.
About 75% of children younger than 17 lived below the poverty line of R400 per month in 1999, the Institute for Democracy in South Africa said on Tuesday.
In the application to have the ”crossing-the-floor” legislation declared unconstitutional, the Constitutional Court was told the defection law in question diminishes the Constitution and ”devalues the vote”.
KwaZulu-Natal has historically been one of South Africa’s more volatile provinces. With political tensions on the rise again, some analysts fear there may be potential for renewed conflict.