Yolandi Groenewald

The Sasol Safety, Health and Environmental Centre was awarded a special commendation in the Greening the Future 2003 Awards, in the category for corporations and corporate foundations, because of its proactive stance towards gearing Sasol to becoming a green corporation.

Do you know what the chicken you ate last night had for supper? Rob Gouws and his team at the University of Natal Pietermaritzburg do. The poultry industry is turning to science to meet the demand for quality meat.

The world is power-hungry. And South Africans are sharing the lust for power. South Africa is at the forefront of developing relatively safe nuclear technology for future power supplies.

Beleaguered Zimbabwean farmers say war veterans and hunters from South Africa and Botswana are stripping game farms of their wildlife. And even when Zimbabwean authorities arrest alleged perpetrators, political intervention allows them to walk free.

Farmers’ fears that South Africa is facing its "own Zimbabwe" because of proposed amendments to the Restitution of Land Rights Act were calmed on Thursday when the government changed the wording of the amendment.

Nelson Mandela decided that his challenge after leaving office in 1999 would be to improve the lives of the poor. Since retiring, he has worked endlessly to involve major organisations and corporations in the upliftment of poor communities.

South Africa has a proud tradition of student activism, with youths having played a critical role in expediting the collapse of apartheid.

Yolandi Groenewald visits an innovative fund-raising project for South Africa’s national parks

Sharp detective work, dangerous undercover investigations and their own high technology led to the downfall of the 23 Boeremag members who will appear in the Pretoria High Court next week to face 43 charges, including murder.

The government and farmers called a reluctant truce in an emotional meeting last week , over legislation that guarantees farm workers at least R650 a month if they work for more than 27 hours a week.

Investing in sustainable energy sources is becoming increasingly crucial to ensure a better future for all on Earth, says Richard Worthington, Earthlife Africa’s project coordinator for the Sustainable Energy and Climate Change Partnership.

A spat between local miners and a poor community near Barkly West in the Northern Cape threatens neighbourhood relations throughout the desolate area.
The black people of Gong Gong and Waldeck’s Plant are up in arms over mining policies they say discriminate against them. Aspirant small-time miners say they struggle to secure licences from the government that are readily provided to white miners.

The fate of 40 000 squatters rests on a government appeal to the Constitutional Court against a high court ruling. The Department of Agriculture and Land Affairs said this week that it would file papers by February 28 to take the case of Modderklip farm, where 40 000 squatters have settled on privately owned land, to the Constitutional Court.

Organisers of the cricket World Cup were convinced they would create the same magic for a nation that hasn’t had many similar memorable moments since 1995. But few black fans have come to the party.

Poaching and resettlement in Gonarezhou National Park in Zimbabwe could put paid to dreams of a boundary-free Greater Limpopo Transfrontier Park for years, say conservationists.

A Zulu translation of <i>The Communist Manifesto</i> will be released on Tuesday, more than 150 years after the original was published. And it has already set off a bout of broedertwis among the comrades.

M&G Media, holding company of the Mail & Guardian, appointed a new board this week. It was chosen because of a change in ownership after Newtrust Company Botswana Limited (NCBL) acquired an 87,5% shareholding in the company.

Part of a rare near-pristine wetland near Harrismith in the Free State will be changed forever after Mohammed Valli Moosa, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, allowed Eskom to dam part of the area for an electrical scheme.

A new calculation of the age of many of South Africa’s best-known fossils by a team at the University of Witwatersrand has turned the clock of human evolution forward by a million years. But not everyone in scientific circles is happy about the way the team rearranged our evolutionary tree.

The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> has kept its 246 000 weekly readers despite the difficult media market conditions of the past six months — and they are the best educated readership of all weekly and daily newspapers in South Africa, according to the All Media Product Survey (AMPS).

Up to 60% of wildlife on privately owned game ranches and conservancies in Zimbabwe has been slaughtered since the land reform programme was launched two years ago, estimates Voiceless Victims, a Zimbabwe action group.

Female university academics still face a formidable glass ceiling, according to data the Mail & Guardian has collected over the past month.

The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) only opened its doors last September, and yet it has already become a vital hub of international intellectual activity on the University of the Witwatersrand’s Braamfontein campus.