Touring Reach Falls with 'Prento'
WHEN PRENTO, the short, round-headed chap who photographer Norman Grindley and I met near Reach Falls in Portland, shouted for me to watch my step, I couldn't hear him because of the sound of the water rushing down the rocks. There was a hidden crevice in the ground that exposed...
Informal settlements pose development risks
Government's inability to relocate illegal settlements located in river-beds and gullies, as well as to enforce tough legislation, has been criticised by a leading environmentalist. Peter Espeut, sociologist and activist, argued that informal settlements pose environmental ...
Nematodes and crop production levels
There has been a recent spate of talking in the print media about the lackluster performance of the agricultural sector due to soil disease. This is not a recent discussion but rather, has been in scientific and political circles as far back as 1958, with the publication ...
Thursday talk - HOTTEST TOPICS ON THE COCKTAIL CIRCUIT
1.Cousins fight over land - It's the tale of the feuding relatives and the parcel of government land that makes a mockery of the promise of good, open and transparent governance. As the story goes, two cousins declared their interest in a prime piece....
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