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 | Mario Herrero Farming livestock contributes around 6 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere each year. While estimates vary, this could represent up to 18% of global emissions... read |
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 | Philip Machanick Come 1994, many South Africans assumed that the official end of apartheid meant "job done - we are a democracy." But despite an excellent constitution and world-class public institutions, the country looks increasingly dysfunctional... read |
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 | The Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA) has donated educational equipment worth R313,000 to the top eight schools in the proximity of the Cape Town International Airport... read |
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 | Mercedes-Benz South Africa (MBSA) has launched its Mercedes-Benz Learning Academy (MBLA). The MBLA is a culmination of a R130 million joint investment by MBSA and the National Treasury's... read |
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 | This World Water Day, farm management, staff and visitors of Vergelegen Wine Estate will be raising a glass to the abundant water permeating land once densely packed with invasive alien vegetation... read |
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 | Woolworths is on a journey to reduce drastically the amount of water it uses by putting water use in focus in stores, offices, distribution centres and across the supply chain... read |
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 | Malawi has burned 2.6 tons of illicit ivory, comprising 781 elephant tusks. The ivory had been seized from ivory traffickers in Mzuzu in 2013, the capital of Malawi's Northern Region... read |
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 | The Sea Point Rotary Club and Aqua4Life have donated a Community LifeStraw unit to the Berg River Primary School outside Wellington in the Western Cape... read |
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 | One in four deaths worldwide is due to environmental factors like air, water and soil pollution, as well as unsafe roads and workplace stress, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, 15 March... read |
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 | The Greater Tygerberg Partnership (GTP), a non-profit organisation which facilitates collaboration between stakeholders to build social and economic prosperity, has announced a competition to identify and help launch social innovation projects in the Tygerberg region in Cape Town... read |
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 | A mercy flight, covering 15,935 kilometres across the airspace of 10 countries into war-torn Yemen, has saved the life of a month-old baby... read |
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 | PRETORIA: South Africa is taking part in the 60th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), which is currently underway at the UN headquarters in New York... read |
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 | Late last week, Minister of Energy Tina Joemat-Pettersson inaugurated the 175MW Solar Capital facility based in De Aar, Northern Cape... read |
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 | Thin film cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) modules "are a technically feasible, environmentally friendly and safe way to produce electricity in South Africa"... read |
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 | The R5bn Bokpoort concentrated solar plant (CSP) has officially been launched in Groblershoop, Northern Cape... read |
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 | The new Sasol global headquarters in Sandton will be jointly leased by Alchemy Properties and the Sasol Pension Fund... read |
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 | A Port Elizabeth-based eco-solutions company is piloting an organic solution for ridding abattoirs of animal waste which, in the process, both saves and creates wash water... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Imagine walking into a bank and being greeted by a robot that uses facial recognition to identify you and your standing in the bank, and possibly predict the service you've come in for - it's not science fiction, this is already a reality in Japan. Here's how business as we know it is about to be disrupted for good... read |
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