Climate ship plots course through the battering waves BBC News The European Union hosts this week what could be one of the most significant meetings of the year on climate change. | Last December's UN climate summit, in the South African port of Durban, saw heated discussions on a proposal that governments should commit to agreeing a new comprehensive glob...
Bonn climate talks: EU plays down talk of Kyoto protocol rift The Guardian | Officials insist agreement can be reached despite row over length of new Kyoto deal A plenary session at the UN climate talks in Bonn, where talks of a rift over the future of the Kyoto protocol were downplayed. Photograph: UNFCCC | Divisions have ...
East… west… home’s best Independent online South Africans needed to become more upbeat about their country if it was to be marketed successfully as a tourist destination to foreigners. | Indeed, no one could be a better ambassador for SA than each individual South African, said the new CEO fo...
ResGen Waterberg mine hangs on rail Business Day | AUSTRALIA’S Resource Generation (ResGen) hopes to raise the first tranche of funding for its $750m coal mine in the Waterberg early next year, but much depends on securing a rail contract with Transnet, CEO Paul Jury said yesterday. | Sidney-list...
Climate for worldwide change NZ Herald | Grand international schemes to fight global warming are giving way to smaller-scale direct action, reports Peter Huck | Ouarazazate, a city in southern Morocco near the Atlas Mountains, is famous mostly as a movie location ever since its starring r...
JOHN GUMMER and JOHN PRESCOTT: Mexican law points to change in climate debate Business Day | BELOW the global radar, the Mexican parliament gave final passage last month to the General Law on Climate Change, a landmark piece of environmental legislation. This is a significant move and comes at a time when the country has also just approved...
Madiba mania: let the buyer beware Independent online This article was first published in the first-quarter 2012 edition of Personal Finance magazine. | South Africans love Madiba and they love gold. Undeniably, the former statesman and the precious metal are part of the fabric of this country's identit...
Workers ‘left behind’ by Cosatu — Zille Business Day | THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) is working against the interests of the unemployed by keeping them permanently locked out, and by stalling the effort to create jobs, Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Helen Zille said yesterday. | ...
Gay African refugees face abduction, violence and rape in Uganda and Kenya The Guardian | LGBTI people fleeing persecution in home country among most vulnerable and isolated of all refugees, finds study In Uganda, 'public rhetoric demonising homosexuality has been particularly vicious' since an anti-gay bill was introduced, says the study. Photograph: Dai Kurokawa/EPA | African homosexuals who flee persecution in their own countries a...
SAA needs state cash to renew its fleet — Gigaba Business Day | South African Airways (SAA) needed to be recapitalised by the state to allow it to renew its fleet of aircraft and roll out its African aviation strategy, Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba said yesterday. | The strategy, which is scheduled to be submitted to Cabinet next month, would target Africa as the primary market for SAA and for its...
