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The City has temporarily closed a number of Durban’s beaches after the discovery of medical waste washed up along the coast. The following beaches have been affected: uMngeni (Mangrove), Beachwood, Virginia, and Glenashley beaches. These have been temporarily closed as clean-up operations are conducted, as the waste could pose a health hazard to patrons.
A spokesperson for the eThekwini Municipality: Tozi Mthethwa has said: “The eThekwini Municipality’s Health Unit is investigating the source of the medical waste.” Mthethwa has further said: “It is estimated that the clean-up operations will take up to two weeks to complete. In the interest of safety, all residents are advised to use alternative beaches until it is safe to use the affected beaches.”
Baby bums, ostrich toes and goose droppings… these are some of the plants the World Wide Fund for Nature in South Africa (WWF-SA) and CapeNature hope to protect through a conservation corridor in the great Succulent Karoo, stretching from Namaqualand to Namibia and through the southern Karoo.
The South African National Treasury published a Draft Carbon Tax Bill (the “Bill”) for public comment by 15 December 2015. At first glance, the Bill does not stray too far from the carbon tax design that Treasury has been proposing since 2010 in various discussion papers, national budget speeches and their associated explanatory memoranda and responses to stakeholder commentary on the design.
Mining companies violated their constitutional obligation to protect their employees, a South Gauteng High Court judge said on Friday in a monumental ruling over silicosis affecting mineworkers.Deputy Judge President Phineas Mojapelo said the miners presented a prima facie case.
The amalgamation of the Mier municipality in the Northern Cape’s Kalahari and //Khara Hais municipality in Upington in the Northern Cape, is to go ahead as planned, creating a municipality bigger, although far less populous, than the province of Gauteng.
In a landmark judgment, the South Gauteng High Court ruled in favour of mineworkers’ to launch a silicosis class action suit against mining companies. We have reached the consensus that there are sufficient common issues to justify the class action. There will be two classes (for silicosis and for TB),” Deputy Judge President Phineas Mojapelo told the court on Friday morning.
The fate of the Government’s National Health Insurance (NHI) project could be decided before it even started. The failure of the NHI will be attributed to one single entity: the Office of Health Standards Compliance (OHSC). In the NHI White Paper, published in December 2015, it is stated that “Health facilities that meet nationally approved standards will be certified by the OHSC to render health services, and will be eligible for accreditation and contracting by the NHI Fund”.
Please be advised that this is an opinion piece for those who are interested in reading about NHI.
