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Those responsible for contaminating South African land will pay, Environment Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica said. “We have taken the view that the cost of reducing pollution must be shared between people who are responsible for waste: the polluters,” she said. “We are now saying that the policy of ‘the polluter pays’ will be strictly pursued without [...] By Tony Carnie Trade unions are turning up pressure on the government to tackle the country’s dirty water “time bomb” as a matter of urgency – or face the prospect of national protest action. The Federation of Unions of SA (Fedusa), the second-largest trade union group in the country, warned yesterday that the government was neglecting the [...] Werner Neuhoff, Ecopreneur from Water Rhapsody- South Africa, has been invited to join leaders from 70 nations in Montréal, Québec during 13-15 October for a World Leadership Conference that will draw women heads of state, corporations and enterprise, as well as members of the diplomatic community, women policy-makers, decision-takers and opinion-leaders on five continents. An [...] Johannesburg – Farm workers in the Musina area call the farm Prachtig the “animal slaughterhouse”. This farm is a central part of the State’s controversial case against an alleged rhino poaching syndicate. Several people – among them two veterinarians – appeared on Tuesday in a court in Musina. Investigating officers visited Prachtig over the past few days, [...] Europeans now get 46.4% of their electricity from non-carbon courses, if you include nuclear, which supplies most of the electricity at 28%. In 2009, they cut coal consumption drastically from 2008. Europeans’ hard coal production dropped 9.2% in 2009 from 2008, and Europe similarly reduced their production of natural gas which in 2009 supplied just [...] Musina – Eleven people accused of being members of a rhino poaching syndicate were released on bail in the Musina Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. Game farmer Dawie Groenewald was released on R1m bail and his wife, Sariette, on R100 000 bail. Veterinarian Karel Toet received R50 000 bail while his wife, Mariza Toet, received R20 000 and [...] |
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