The Chirundu pilot project is paying off for traders and travellers, writes Wyndham Hartley A Ground-breaking one-stop border post (OSBP) at Chirundu between Zambia and Zimbabwe has demonstrated how the cost of trading in Southern Africa can be...
Zimbabwe’s export trade promotion body, ZimTrade, has warned against over-reliance on South African imports, stressing that Harare could plunge into a serious economic crisis should its southern neighbour experience unexpected production and...
VOA’s Vincent Makori talks to Professor Eugene Cloete, of Stellenbosch University, in South Africa, and lead researcher of the tea bag filter project, about water projects.
Pollution in Durban’s marine environment: A short documentary created by three students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal focusing on public opinion of anthropogenic pollution on beaches in Durban. Marine pollution is becoming a huge cause for...
In spite of their increased vulnerability to climate change, children cannot be viewed simply as victims. Children have the right to be heard on climate change and to be involved in the discussions and planning of mitigation and adaptation...
The annual rooibos harvest in South Africa’s Western Cape helps quench the world’s growing thirst for “red bush” tea, but farmers fear that climate change could destroy the delicate eco-system that their crop depends on. The...
South Africa’s first Water Disclosure Report revealed that 85 per cent of water-intensive users among the JSE Top 100 companies are exposed to water-related risk, with 70 per cent believing that risks to their direct operations could occur...
The Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg is the largest and most spectacular stadium construction site in the world. The icon of the FIFA World Cup 2010 will host the opening and the final matches. The innovative Austrian company Rieder Smart...
The prestigious WISA 2012 conference is about to get underway, taking place in Cape Town from 6 to 10 May. Debbie Besseling speaks to the conference’s chairperson Dana Grobler about what delegates can expect from this year’s event. The idea behind...
It’s been almost a week since the landmark court ruling postponing the implementation of e-tolling in Gauteng. Joe Public has won a battle but perhaps not the war. The South African government and its agency, the South African National Roads Agency...
