Tag: Maite Nkoana-Mashabane

• Saturday, November 17th 2012 - 05:53 UTC

  “Technical issues” delaying Argentine Navy vessel departure from South Africa

  

  The Argentine Navy said that repair works in the corvette ARA Espora, which has been stranded in South Africa for over five weeks “are 65% completed” and denied there were any debts pending with the German company that is responsible for the maintenance of the MEKO class corvettes as was reported earlier in the Buenos Aires press.

• Saturday, November 3rd 2012 - 04:07 UTC

  South African minister admits a second Argentine navy vessel could be impounded

  

  When Argentina still has not recovered from the impounding of the Navy’s flagship, ARA Libertad, retained in Ghana, another piece of bad news was confirmed in Pretoria on Friday when South African Foreign minister admitted that a second navy vessel, ARA Espora, docked in Simonstown was exposed to a similar fate.

• Monday, December 12th 2011 - 05:11 UTC

  Happy ending for Durban climate summit: Kyoto Protocol extended to 2017

  

  Climate negotiators agreed a pact that would for the first time force all the biggest polluters to take action on greenhouse gas emissions, but critics said the action plan was not aggressive enough to slow the pace of global warming.