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Department of Arts and Culture at COP17

By on December 7, 2011 in Community News

Editor of artSMart, Caroline Smart, talks to Mr Paul Mashatile, Minister of Arts & Culture on November 29, 2011. Ever since Paul Mashatile was appointed Minster of Arts and Culture, I have just missed meeting him on a number of occasions. However, yesterday I was privileged to spend some time chatting to him on his [...]

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Climate Change Response Expo

By on December 6, 2011 in Community News

The Climate Change Response Expo is located in a collection of tents next to The Workshop.  The expo hosts a number of stalls – from climate robots (courtesy of UKZN) to solar water heaters, electric cars and enviro-NGOs and I would encourage all Durbanites to head down there this week (it closes on Friday)! More [...]

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Young Scientists and Youth Initiatives on Climate Change and Indigenous Knowledge Systems

By on November 15, 2011 in Of Interest

29th and 30th November 2011 Howard Campus of University of KwaZulu-Natal DURBAN, South Africa The Indigenous Knowledge Centre at the North-West University (South Africa) in cooperation with the NRF/DST Chair on African Traditional Medicines (University of KwaZulu-Natal), the National IKS Office (Department of Science and Technology, South Africa), and The New Partnership for Africa’s Development [...]

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