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South Africa

• Africa Solar Outlook 2025

  Africa deployed an additional 2.5 GW of solar in 2024, according to AFSIA‘s new “Africa Solar Outlook 2025” report. AFSIA’s figures, which do not include residential installations, take the continent’s

  • 15/01/2025

  • Africa Solar Industry Association (AFSIA)
  • • Africa
    • Solar Energy
    • South Africa
    • Egypt

• SOUTH AFRICA

  One of the main causes of pollution in South Africa is plastic packaging, says a recent study. The Water Research Commission and the Cape Metropolitan Council conducted a four-year study into the

  • 14/08/2001

  • Down To Earth
  • • Environment
    • Plastics
    • Waste Disposal
    • South Africa

• SOUTH AFRICA

  A wetland in the St Lucia estuary on the cast coast in KwaZUILI-Natal province was saved from devastation when the country's cabinet banned the development of a mineral sands project by

  • 14/04/1996

  • Down To Earth
  • • Wetlands
    • Mining
    • Legislation
    • South Africa

• SOUTH AFRICA

  Home to a staggeringly abundant variety of flora and fauna, South Africa -- having emerged out of the shadow of apartheid -- is witnessing a resurgence of its tourism industry; the country has more

  • 30/07/1995

  • Down To Earth
  • • Wildlife
    • Tourism
    • South Africa
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  SOUTH AFRICA

  The world's largest gold refinery, the Rand, located in South Africa will soon become the most ecofriendly one across the globe. The refinery is the first in the world to be awarded a certificate by

  • 29/04/2001

  • Down To Earth
  • • Environment
    • Gold
    • South Africa

• Uprooting spree

  South Africa's indigenous forests are severely threatened by gatherers of medicinal plants who pay scant attention to conservation practices. Michael Peter, director of the country's Department of

  • 29/04/2003

  • • Agriculture
    • Deforestation
    • Medicinal Plants
    • South Africa

• Lucrative destination

  India's retail sector's estimated worth is US $350-380 billion. About US $15 billion of this is in organised retail chains. Although the retail boom in India started quite late, the growth rate in the past two years has been very high

  • 29/06/2007

  • Down To Earth
  • • Economy
    • South Africa
    • China
    • Vietnam
    • United States Of America (US)
    • Brazil
    • India

• South Africa

  Divers recently filmed a coelacanth fish in St Lucia marine protected area of South Africa. Coelacanths were thought to be extinct for a long time but six of them were spotted in St Lucia last year

  • 14/06/2001

  • Down To Earth
  • • Marine Fisheries
    • Wildlife
    • South Africa
    • St Lucia
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  Farm trade principles

  G-20 suggests parameters to cut agricultural tariffs

  • 14/07/2004

  • Down To Earth
  • • Agriculture
    • Trade
    • WTO
    • South Africa
    • China
    • Argentina
    • Brazil
    • India
    • European Union (EU)
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  Lethal culling

  South Africa (sa), again wants to cull elephants, a practice it halted in 1994 in the face of public outrage. Between 1967 and 1994 over 14,000 elephants were "removed' from the country's Kruger

  • 30/10/2005

  • • Animal Care
    • Elephant
    • South Africa

• Outrageous

  Bushmen

  • 14/09/2005

  • Down To Earth
  • • People
    • South Africa