T OURISM FOR NATURE NATURE FOR TOURISM ¢¡¤£ c ¥§¦©¨ Edition 4 July/August 2002 World Summit on specialspecialSustaina editioneditionble Development WSSD johannesburg world summit 2002 Student designer President Mbekis World Summit Call people, planet and prosperity shines in FORGE A NEW JOY world summit President Mbeki received the torch for sustainable Agenda 21 was a seminal global achievement. It will forever Earlier in June this year, a first year fashion development in a moving ceremony symbolically stand out as a shining beacon pointing the direction to design student, 20 year-old Lerato opening the road from Rio to Johannesburg. This is sustainable development. It is a towering monument to the Mogorosi, became the happy winner of an abridged version of his speech in the presence of spirit of the people of this age. It is as valid today as it was the prize for her innovative design of the Presidents of Brazil and Sweden on 28 June 2002 ten years ago. uniforms that will be worn by volunteers in Rio de Janeiro. during the United Nations World Summit As my brother, President Cardoso, passes on the torch - on Sustainable Development 2002 to be the flame being Agenda 21 - to the World Summit on held in Johannesburg from August to We are privileged that the South African city of Johannesburg Sustainable Development - the 'Johannesburg World Summit' September. follows in the footsteps of Stockholm and Rio de Janeiro - the enormity of the responsibility and challenge becomes in having the honour to host the peoples of the world as tangible. We know that he hands over the torch on behalf In an effort to engage the South African they engage afresh the urgent challenge of sustainable of the victims of unsustainable development, concerned public in creating awareness and to leave development. citizens of the world, and, on behalf of our children and a legacy of the Summit, the Johannesburg future generations, to whom the Earth really belongs. World Summit Company (JOWSCO), Ten years ago, the United Nations Conference on earlier this year, embarked on a country- Environment and Development, the 'Rio Earth Summit', The umbilical link between wide search brought together leaders and nations of the world in this Johannesburg and Rio extends to for an historic city to change the course of history. Stockholm. Hence the significance authentic of the presence of Prime Minister South African Here, the world declared with one voice: "Human beings Persson. The United Nations Uniform are at the centre of concerns for sustainable development. Conference on the Human Design for They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony Environment held this month three both male and with nature." decades ago has resulted in three female decades of unprecedented global volunteers. In the opening lines of Agenda 21, the nations of the world concern about the negative impact The Victoria pronounced that: of human activity on Mother Earth. Toma Institute of Design in " Humanity stands at a defining moment in history. We are Let us recall that in Stockholm the Bloemfontein, confronted with a perpetuation of disparities between and world declared: "Man is both creature where Lerato within nations, a worsening of poverty, hunger, ill health and moulder of his environment, is studying, and illiteracy, and the continuing deterioration of ecosystems which gives him physical sustenance was invited, on which we depend for our well being. However, integration and affords him the opportunity for along with of environment and development concerns and greater intellectual, moral, social and spiritual other identified attention to them will lead to the fulfilment of basic needs, growth. In the long and tortuous design improved living standards for all, better protected and evolution of the human race on this schools, to managed ecosystems and a safer, more prosperous future. planet a stage has been reached conceptualise No nation can achieve this on its own; but together we can when, through the rapid acceleration of science and and design a uniform. - in a global partnership for sustainable development." technology, man has acquired the power to transform his environment in countless ways and on an unprecedented A global consensus was established that sustainable scale. Both aspects of man's environment, the natural and The Afro-Centric design wooed the judges development rests on three interdependent pillars: the the man-made, are essential to his well-being and to the because of its practical, user-friendly and protection of the earth, social development and economic enjoyment of basic human rights the right to life itself." South-African flair and professional look. prosperity. continued on page 2 continued on page 2 a publication of Set tone for sustainable development by Koffi Anan UN Secretary General Koffi Anan has identified five key issues for the World Summit on Sustainable concrete results must be obtained Development. In a moving lecture at the Johannesburg World Summit delivered at the American Museum on Sustainable Development. of Natural History on Tuesday, 14 May 2002 in New York by Mrs Nana These five areas could be Annan on his behalf she said the remembered by a simple acronym UN identified water and sanitation, WEHAB Mr Annan said as he energy agriculture, health and biodiversity as key areas on which continued on page 3 Edition 4 July/August 2002 CONTENTS FORGE A NEW JOY ...continued from page 1 Today, thirty years later, we have Forge a New Joy ...p1 fewer fish in the seas, more carbon dioxide being pumped into the Set Tone for Sustainable atmosphere, more desertification, Development ...p1 more soil erosion and more species extinction. Student Designer shines Our very development model is in world summit ...p1 questioned daily by the earth's ecosystem on which all life and all Official mail courier of economic activity is dependent. Our the summit ...p3 patterns of consumption and production cannot be left unchecked. Women Global Summit, If the Chinese citizen is to consume Spain ...p3 the same quantity of crude oil as his But the human spirit triumphed. argue that the global community of or her US counterpart, China would South Africa is now a democracy in nations is too poor to defeat global News Flashes ...p3 need over 80 million barrels of oil a which we live in harmony as we poverty. day - slightly more than the 74 million struggle to eradicate the legacy of Face to Face with barrels a day the world now over three hundred years of Nobody can truthfully argue that Moss Mashishi ...p4 produces. If annual paper use in colonialism and apartheid. Since the there is a larger human imperative China of 35 kilograms per person victory of democracy in 1994, 7 or decisive constraint that makes it Ubuntu Village ...p4 were to climb to the US level of 342 million people have access to clean obligatory that we must destroy the kilograms, China would need more water, over 1 million homes for poor environment. Together, we must give paper than the world currently people have been built, over 2 million real meaning to the solemn pledge Durban wins 3 year produces. (Lester R. Brown, Eco- more homes now have electricity that was made in this city 10 years bid to host indaba ...p5 Economy). and every child has a place in ago: school. New Chairman of The period since the Rio Earth "Human beings are at the centre of SA Tourism ...p5 Summit has been one of And, South Africa is acting as host concerns for sustainable unprecedented global economic to the World Summit on Sustainable development. They are entitled to a Tourism Statistics ...p5 growth. Growth in the world Development. healthy and productive life in economy in the year 2000 alone harmony with nature." exceeded that during the entire At the time of Rio this was all just a The A to Z of the summit ...p6 nineteenth century. dream. Together, let us, in action, repeat the words of the African poet, Ben Editorial ...p7 Yet people continue to die of hunger; As you prepare to travel to Okri: babies get born, grow up, and die Johannesburg, we all know that We are ready! ...p8 without being able to read or write; people can change and that it is "Break this cycle many fellow humans do not have possible to change the lives of the Break this madness The Road to Jozi ...p9 clean water to drink; and, people die poor. We also must believe that it is Let new fevers rise in this of curable diseases. The gulf possible for us to live in harmony Radiant act of faith Sustainable City for between rich and poor members of with nature. Destroy this temple of living hell the human race widens as we speak. Let us join our angers together Summit ...p9 A global partnership for sustainable Forge a new joy for the age. The Johannesburg World Summit development and for the eradication Before our lives disintegrate VIVA African Union ...p10 must take further our pledge at the of poverty is within reach. Genuine Create New breaks." Millennium Summit to eradicate human solidarity is both possible Just flick a finger poverty. It must focus on and necessary. ("Memories Break" in An African and youll be there ...p11 implementation and action. Its Eulogy (instead of Elegy), Vintage, outcome must make sense to she On behalf of the people of London: 1997.) A message of hope who has to walk for kilometres to Johannesburg and South Africans fetch drinking water and to she who in general, I invite leaders of the From Stockholm, to Rio de Janeiro, from Bali to Joburg ...p11 spends hours gathering firewood for world and representatives of people to Johannesburg, let us continue to energy.