At a recent meeting, the new WCC Board recommended simplification of the membership structure as part of a number of amendments to the OCF constitution which will be put to the members at a forthcoming general meeting. In future there will be only 3 categories of membership: individual, organisational and corporate. The membership fee in all cases is R200. Members …
Wheat production to be second highest on record this year 7:15 AM |
Global production of wheat this year will be the second highest on record at 690 million tons, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organizations (FAO) announced today. This year’s production is 10 million tons less than last year, a 1.4 per cent decrease. However, it is still well above the average of the past five years, FAO said in its …
Municipality to raise funds for water cleaning projects
Thohoyandou – A group of Limpopo women who have been volunteering to clean natural springs in their village may soon have a lucrative business. The 12 women have been cleaning two springs in Mphagane and Sheshe villages outside Thohoyandou since July 2011 under the national Adopt a River Project. Our municipality will make sure that the volunteers get funding so …
Increasing demand and climate change threaten global water
An unprecedented rise in the demand for food, rapid urbanization and climate change are significantly threatening global water supplies, according to a United Nations report released today, which stresses that a radical new approach to managing this essential resource is needed to be able to sustain future consumption levels. The UN World Water Development Report, which will be launched at …
Solar flare: SA is safe
24 January 2012 – 13:42 By Hannah Keal If you have received a message doing the rounds warning of the potential damaging fall out from a huge solar flare, the good news is experts say there is no cause for alarm. Newswatch has touched base with Dr. Pierre Cilliers, a research physicist at the Space Science Directorate of the SA …