The municipality kick-started a number of green initiatives to offset the impact of last year’s COP17 climate change conference hosted in Durban.
A Japanese zoo that caught more squirrels than had escaped denied any mystery behind the mismatch, saying the critters just "keep reproducing".
Limited open space and mining legacies has meant that Johannesburg City Parks needed to take new approaches to urban park development.
The education ministry was informed EduSolutions’s contract was in breach of various regulations before using it as a supplier for school textbooks.
The ANC policy conference released a raft of recommendations late on Thursday. Some are surprising, some new. Others are downright unimplementable.
Figures from the advocacy group One indicated that Europe had failed to meet pledges made at the Gleneagles G8 summit in 2005.
Even in death “oilgate” kingpin Sandi Majali remains a source of contention.
Minister knew of problems months ago
The impact of wind turbines on birdlife is not fully known, but studies in other parts of the world indicate they are vulnerable at these sites.
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