South Africa's anchovy population is at its highest recorded level and the government has decided to boost the total allowable catch for the 2001 season by 207 percent to 378,000 tonnes, the Environmental Affairs and Tourism Ministry said on Monday. Little things mean a lot, especially when it comes to air pollution. According to new research, pollutants that are less than one-fifth the width of a strand of hair can deal death blows to residents of big cities and obscure views for thousands of miles. Warming relations with the land of the rising sun . Japan, says an expert on Asia, is the Prussia of the Far East disciplined, hard working, a little straightlaced and rather strict.
China is more Mediterranean easy-going, with a readily visible lust for life.
Enjoying a cigarette with your drink or as an after-dinner treat on a night out is not quite a thing of the past. The hard slog towards eradicating cholera goes hand in hand with eradicating poverty. But that does not mean there is nothing to be done, nor that SA is not coping with this latest health crisis. The bringing of clean water and decent sanitation is being hastened but will cost billions of rands and will take time and public health mechanisms have swung into place. South Africans have watched with disbelief over the past month as the cholera epidemic has gnawed at KwaZulu-Natal.