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/ 25 February 2011
The deepest recession since the 1930s has failed to reverse rising global carbon emissions.
A new initiative in downtown Jo’burg gets artists and their supporters sharing their talents and bread.
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/ 25 February 2011
Susan Shabangu, the minister of mineral resources, agrees that mining should not take place in ecologically sensitive areas.
Scientists have found that global warming makes floods between two and three times more likely.
Some 54% of Mpumalanga is affected by mining
or prospecting, but civil society is drawing the line
at Chrissiesmeer, writes <b>Michelle Nel</b>.
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/ 25 February 2011
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan is to present a discussion paper on the youth wage subsidy to trade unions and business.
South Africa’s climate change debate has, so far, largely focused on the country’s overdependence on coal-fired energy.
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/ 25 February 2011
China is to impose an environmental tax on heavy polluters under an ambitious clean-up strategy being finalised in Beijing.
Hemmed in politics, Pravin Gordhan holds back on big ideas.
<b>Lloyd Gedye</b> takes a musical journey through the streets of Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar’s Stone Town.