South Africa will fight to ensure that the Kyoto Protocol does not die at COP17 Environment Minister Edna Molewa pledged this week.
SA is ready to host the high-level UN climate summit in Durban in November, insists the minister of international relations, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane.
A partly state-owned coal mine in Mpumalanga was forced to close down two months ago due to community violence.
Opponents of the N2 toll road that will snake through the Wild Coast are ready to take their battle to the highest court.
Four months before South Africa hosts COP17, concerns are mounting that the country is lagging behind in its preparations.
Government is considering imposing a mining industry levy or tax to finance the clean up of toxic acid water rising.
After winning praise for their role in Cancùn, SA’s negotiators have high hopes for Durban talks.
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/ 15 December 2010
South Africa and other developing countries called for a legally binding outcome at the climate change talks held in Mexico over the past week.
Two more women ministers have been added to a list of those who will probably be subject to President Jacob Zuma’s imminent Cabinet rethink.
Amendments likely to make a bad situation even worse, civil society organisations argue.
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/ 10 December 2009
Food parcels handed out by ANCYL president Julius Malema last week were not sponsored by Sassa, the Social Development Ministry said on Thursday.
Weaknesses in the social security system have resulted in many children continuing to live in dire poverty, minister Edna Molewa said on Thursday.
The Social Development Department and unions have agreed to implement the occupation specific dispensation, backdated to April 1 2008.
North West Premier Edna Molewa and her husband were shot at while returning from a funeral in Rustenburg, according to a media report on Tuesday.
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/ 30 November 2008
North West premier also under pressure to act against provincial agriculture minister, reports Yolandi Groenewald.
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/ 11 October 2008
The ANC’s national headquarters on Saturday dismissed radio reports that North West Premier Edna Molewa would be recalled.
The disappearance of delegates’ names and other data from voters’ rolls is apparently rife at regional ANC conferences.
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/ 26 November 2007
Constable Francis Rasuge was murdered due to her refusal to be a slave in a relationship, North West Premier Edna Molewa said on Sunday. Speaking at the launch of the 16 Days of Activism campaign against abuse in Maboloka, Molewa said Rasuge typified the pain of being a woman in South Africa.
Frances Beatrice Marshoff, Edna Molewa and Dipuo Peters.