When the local council meets later this month it will be presented with a recommendation for a R180m optic fibre manufacturing plant at Capricorn Park in Muizenberg. HIV has been blamed as one of the underlying causes of the persistence of the cholera epidemic in KwaZulu-Natal which has claimed 60 lives out of some 15,500 cases since August. Cholera cases have been reported in a total of six Southern African countries this week, raising concern that the water-borne disease was being spread by human contact through the region. South African pizza lovers who enjoy a generous topping of anchovy are in luck. 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.