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Turf war rages for South Africa's platinum unions
2016-07-20 12:48:15| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A growing turf war between the two main unions in South Africa's platinum belt creates more unrest amid talks between producers and miners.
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Boeing, South African Airways and Mango celebrate Africas 1st commercial flights with sustainable aviation biofuel from tobacco
2016-07-15 22:56:02| Green Car Congress
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What Africa's drought responses teach us about climate change hotspots
2016-07-12 01:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Conversation AU: The world may still argue about whether or not climate change is for real. But in vast expanses of arid southern Africa, the daily struggle to cope with a changed climate is well under way. The lessons being learnt here on a small scale could prove vital in the fight for human survival. The impact of drought has been felt acutely this season over southern Africa, as El Nino hit hard. Perhaps this is what we might expect under future climate change conditions and so we had better learn how to prepare...
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China is building a third of Africas new power capacity
2016-07-05 18:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Chinese state-owned companies are increasingly active in sub-Saharan Africa and dominate the hydropower dam business China brought electricity to half a billion of its people in the two decades to 2000. Now, it is emerging one of the biggest builders of power projects in sub-Saharan Africa, where some 635 million people are off grid. Over the past five years, Chinese companies built 7GW of generation capacity on the continent -- 30% of new installations -- according to a report published...
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Mind the gap: Financing Africas energy boom
2016-07-05 10:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: A solar entrepreneur struggles to get finance, while a minister defends a superfluous LNG terminal at London`s Africa Energy Forum An engineer fixes the hinge on a portable solar power container It looks like it could carry milk or paraffin, but this plastic bottle is full of batteries. Villagers can fill it up at a solar hub in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, and take it home to power phones or lightbulbs. Lungelwa Tyali, entrepreneur behind the PowerTurtle model, has sold about 130 of...
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