Sony Music Publishing South Africa announced the signing of Gallo Music Publishers to a worldwide agreement...
South Africa and India are seeking a waiver of the global agreement on IP rights to enable access to Covid-19 treatments, but more would need to be done in SA on a practical level to make this effective
Tim Ball 19 Oct 2020
At the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, countries set goals that require halving carbon emissions by 2030. In a new piece in Nature, Professor Harald Winkler, as part of an international team, delivers the bad news that the emissions gap...
"Fake news", the chief executive of Lufthansa has called it. But his counterpart at Air France calls it the airline industry's "biggest challenge". So does the president of Emirates: "It's got to be dealt...
Duygu Yengin and Tracey Dodd 15 Jan 2020
The Startup Competition 2019 from The Original Inspiration Centre by LaLiga supported by GSIC has chosen the 10 winners of the first stage of the competition...
It is a new year filled with promise and new opportunities to address our increasing climate challenges...
Songo Didiza 18 Jan 2019
The report, which comes out every two years, presents a sobering picture of the impact of human activity on the world's wildlife, forests, oceans, rivers and climate....
190 UN states have approved the final text of a new international agreement that outlines a range of measures for tackling xenophobia...
A growing number of countries are signing up to a global agreement that helps stop illegal fishing...
Cummins Africa Middle East, in conjunction with Komatsu Africa Holdings have introduced a new Technical Education for Communities (TEC) programme at the Sedibeng TVET College...
Some 600 climate scientists, urban researchers, policymakers and practitioners attended the International Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) first ever conference on cities last week...
Jago Dodson 15 Mar 2018
Political experts have continued to raise pointed questions about the continent's food future pertaining to production processes, trade flows, sources of finance and, crucially, science and sustainability...
Adam Sneyd 22 Feb 2018
When President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris agreement, the landmark climate accord signed by 196 nations that came into force in November 2016, the decision caused a significant negative backlash among other signatory countries...
Luc Soete 27 Jun 2017
When it comes to reducing carbon emissions, one of the biggest hurdles is the world's addiction to flying...
Simon Blakey 1 Mar 2017
Pneumonia, an acute infection of the lungs, is the biggest killer of children worldwide even though it is treatable and easily preventable with vaccines...
Franck Kuwonu 13 Feb 2017
Etihad Airways has announced the launch of Runway to Runway - a special rewards programme designed for the fashion community's travel requirements...
South Africa's National Assembly has formally approved the country's ratification of the Paris Agreement reached at the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change...
Next week, the city of Quito, Ecuador, plays host to the third ever United Nations conference on housing and sustainable urban development - also known as Habitat III...
Enora Robin 12 Oct 2016
Nissan was ranked 43rd this year - up six spots from lasts year's ranking at 49th in the Best Global Brands Study...
The Treasury has made significant changes to draft legislation on the new tax amnesty on offshore assets that takes effect later in 2016 in a bid to make it simpler for taxpayers to come clean on any foreign income and assets they have not declared to the taxman...
Hilary Joffe 22 Jul 2016
Nigeria "at forefront" of push to freeze oil production levels...
Southern African farmers and farmer's organisations are shocked by the absence of an agricultural proposal in the COP 21 draft text among parties in the COP-process...
Tellumat has merged its ICT infrastructure assets in a new business unit, Tellumat Integrated Solutions (TIS). The amalgamation of...
French President Francois Hollande said on Wednesday, 4 November, that sharing emissions-cutting technology with emerging nations like India and China will be a key part of the "success or failure" of climate change talks in Paris next month...
Africa's climate, including climate change and climate variability, add challenges and opportunities to the continent's development...
Coleen Vogel 1 Jun 2015
NEW YORK: The Rockefellers, the first family of oil, said on Monday, 22 September, they would divest from fossil fuels in a fresh boost for the fight against climate change ahead of a UN summit.
It is the astute retailer who is putting the processes and enabling technology in place to turn usability into bottom-line benefits.
Adriaan Mocke 6 Nov 2013
Progress towards an international agreement on tackling climate change has been painfully slow, dogged by fundamental disagreements between the countries involved and exacerbated by the financial crisis and political elections.
Neil Morris 29 Nov 2012
Following a global agreement signed between Ricoh and Heidelberg, Ricoh SA and Heidelberg Southern Africa have formalised their co-operative agreement in South Africa that gives Heidelberg's customers access to Ricoh's mid-range digital presses.
Exports to the European Union (EU) are set to become more expensive when proposals to introduce a shipping tax next year are adopted by the bloc, trade policy analyst Peter Draper said earlier this week.
RADNOR, US: QlikTech, a leader in business discovery-user-driven business intelligence has announced a global partnership agreement with Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, to offer its customers added-value services and solutions for the QlikView business discovery platform.
BEIJING, CHINA: The World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) and Firefly Millward Brown have identified 10 insights that advertisers need to take into account when using digital media to communicate.
BELLVUE, US/CAPE TOWN, SA: Expedia, Inc, reputedly the world's largest online travel company, announced this week that it has signed a global partnership agreement with Protea Hospitality Group, a South Africa-based hotel management company operating nearly 130 properties in eight countries throughout Africa under the Protea Hotels and African Pride Hotels brands.
Brothers for Life, the national SANAC endorsed men's campaign, with support from USAID, UNICEF, Manchester United and FC Barcelona, has named a phenomenal squad of national and international sporting talent that are to promote HIV prevention and take a stand against violence against women and children in South and Southern Africa. The squad began its work on 1 June.
Alliances ranged from traditional co-productions to content providers teaming up with social media players as cross-media business thrived in Cannes during MIPTV 2010 this week. The event attracted 11 500 delegates, including 4 000 buyers (5% up on 2009) from 107 countries.
COPENHAGEN: Leaders from the world's poor countries, especially those from Africa and small island developing countries, warned yesterday, 16 December 2009, that any move to hurt their interests at the UN Climate Summit was doomed to be a failure.
Haider Rizvi 17 Dec 2009
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK: Chairperson of African Union Commission, Dr. Jean Ping will today, 15 December 2009, arrive in Copenhagen, Denmark where he will lead the African Union Commission delegation to the Fifteenth Conference of the Parties (COP-15) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Fifth Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties (CMP-5) to the Kyoto Protocol.
Several leaders in the international music industry suffered a bitter defeat as a Russian court found that Denis Kvasov, music site AllofMP3.com chief, committed no copyright violations. The site sold tracks to consumers at prices below the market without the permission of copyright owners.