The department of public enterprise's climate change policy framework has to meet the special needs of state-owned companies, Minister Malusi Gigaba said on Monday. "It is not always easy to maintain an appropriate balance between potentially competing financial, economic, developmental and environmental objectives," he said at the launch of Eskom's Solar PV Plant at Lethabo Power Station in Vereeniging.

Human intervention is currently causing the climate to change too fast. (Climate models predict that the mean air temperature will increase with an estimated 2°C over the next century.)

Labels on boxes of imported pig hearts allegedly being changed to veal hearts in secret footage.

Many of the 2.5 million pilgrims, who are expected to perform Haj this year, will leave for the Mina valley, located five km east of Makkah, on Thursday evening at the start of the annual pilgrimage.