National Treasury held a carbon tax stakeholder consultation last Friday 1 November at the Energy Research Council, University of Cape Town recently. The event was attended by members of government, business, civil society and labour. Mr Cecil...
“The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.” – Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923. Now, nearly a century later, it seems us predatory humans have finally...
General Motors South Africa (GMSA) is putting ‘greener’ cars on the road, thanks to significant reductions in the energy used to manufacture each vehicle – an achievement recognised recently with ENERGY STAR certification from the US Environmental...
An integrated real-time cross-border payments system designed to remove bottlenecks to business to bolster intra-regional trade has been launched in East Africa’s biggest economies. According to Kenya’s central bank the East African Payments System...
“It’s been a hard year.” This statement seems to be doing the rounds at the moment, and is hastily followed by the relief that it is nearly over and soon we will begin again. It’s not easy pin down exactly why this feeling is so commonplace....
AfriSam’s Ulco Cement operation in the Northern Cape Province received the 2013 Industrial Award at the recent National Association for Clean Air (NACA) awards ceremony. This was in recognition of Ulco’s contribution to air quality...
Coega Development Corporation’s interns spent Friday, 6 December –the day the world woke to news that beloved icon Nelson Mandela had passed away – giving back to the local community at the Ilingelabantu Children’s Home in Kwazakhele. Here the...
“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.” — Nelson Mandela This great man brought a nation together, and today...
A new publication, Financial Inclusion in Africa, released yesterday by the Complex of the Chief Economist of the African Development Bank (AfDB) (http://www.afdb.org) finds that for sustained and inclusive development to thrive, a great deal of...
