Minister of Environment and Tourism Marthinus Van schalkwyk of South Africa

On 29 April 2004, following the overwhelming victory of the African National Congress in the national parliamentary elections, Van Schalkwyk was appointed by President Thabo Mbeki as Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism for South Africa - a position he has held since that time.

A meeting held by Minister of Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk has resolved a spat about accommodation for the 2010 World Cup, SA Tourism says.

Minister of Environmental Affairs Marthinus van Schalkwyk says his department is planning "further steps" to stem the poaching of marine resources.

Marthinus 'Kortbroek' van Schalkwyk has received overwhelming support for his policy on climate change, writes Nicole Johnston.

In 1997, Van Schalkwyk was appointed executive director of the NNP.

ENVIRONMENT Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said at the United Nations (UN) climate conference in Poland yesterday that rich states were hampering the quest for a global deal on carbon emissions.

Van Schalkwyk said there was little time to meet their deadline of signing a global pact on fighting climate change in Copenhagen next year.

Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk has labelled George W Bush 'a disaster for climate change.

SA Environment Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk has said in Poland rich nations are hampering the quest for a new global deal on carbon emissions.

Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk is to facilitate talks after SA Tourism quit the advisory board of Fifa's ticketing and accommodation company Match.

Marthinus van Schalkwyk has dismissed appeals lodged against the granting of environmental authorisation for the building of the King Shaka International Airport.

Environmental Affairs Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk says his department is planning 'further steps' to stem the rampant poaching of marine resources along the country's coastline.

Urging the US to take its fair share of responsibility for causing climate change, Van Schalkwyk said this would be his message to the world's largest economy when he participates in the US-hosted meeting of major economies on energy security and climate change at the end of January.

Regarding fast-growing economic powerhouse China, Van Schalkwyk said it has been less difficult for the global community to get China to participate in multilateral discussions on greenhouse gas reductions than it was to get the US involved.

Pointing out that there are more than 860 registered CDM projects in 49 developing countries, with another 2 000 projects in the pipeline, Van Schalkwyk said this needed to be scaled up further to ensure that a greater number of these projects took place in Africa.

While addressing key climate change role players in Washington DC, South African Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk said that the election of Barack Obama as US President signalled a “much anticipated fresh.

South Africa would make use of more instruments than just environmental-impact assessments (EIAs), as it develops a new environmental-impact management (EIM) system, Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said on.

Speaking at the opening of the national conference of the Southern African Association for the Conference Industry (SAACI) in Cape Town this morning, Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said this would take an enormous amount of work.

Its not far from the truth, our Environment Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk has basically said that George Bush is a failure.

There is no way whatsoever that we can agree to what the US is proposing," South African Environment and Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said in a statement.

According to one survey, Marthinus van Schalkwyk said in a speech to tourism industry leaders, about one-third of potential tourists had mentioned fears about safety as one reason for not visiting South Africa in the past five years.

Van Schalkwyk said his department was working with police on a new Tourism Safety and Awareness strategy.

Mr van Schalkwyk has shown that he is very passionate about conservation - that he may be precisely the man we can depend on to slow the 'Rape of Africa.

Despite the current global financial crisis, new opportunities in tourism are still arising, Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said on Tuesday.

Van Schalkwyk was speaking at the Transfrontier Conservation Areas (TFCA) investment conference in Sandton, Johannesburg.

Van Schalkwyk said delegates at the conference would be presented with a catalogue featuring 51 investment opportunities offering over 5 000 beds and estimated at R785-million.

Van Schalkwyk said he believed investments in tourism facilities would unlock the potential of the industry, and that one of the aims of the TCFAs was to use the 2010 soccer World Cup spectacle as a launching pad to brand and develop the region.

Marthinus van Schalkwyk said on Saturday.

Known by the Afrikaans moniker, Kortbroek, Van Schalkwyk took his place in the then 80-year legacy of the National Party.

So, what happened?One theory making the rounds is, Van Schalkwyk is laying the groundwork for a compromise with the anti-hunting community.

Marthinus van Schalkwyk is not a prophet at home, but he commands widespread respect abroad.

The financial crisis should not be allowed to interfere with the drive to deal with climate change, Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk has said.

Mr van Schalkwyk said the trade in rhino and their product was regulated internationally to ensure sustainable utilisation of the species, and that the indiscriminate illegal trade in rhino is directly linked to organised crime.

Environment Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said his government was drawing up regulations for treating the 120 elephants in captivity in the country, saying his department had received "numerous complaints" about cruel training practices including the use of electric prodders.

Van Schalkwyk said the debate was marked by "strong emotions.

Van Schalkwyk said he had discussed the new regulations with other southern African countries facing the same dilemma.

Marthinus van Schalkwyk is the leader of the New National Party (NNP.

van Schalkwyk has openly said he would like to enter into some kind of agreement with his former rivals.

Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk had given the go-ahead to the next expansion phase of Transnets Sishen-Saldanha iron-ore corridor, he said in an emailed statement on Thursday.

There had been two appeals lodged against the expansion, on behalf of environmental groups, but Van Schalkwyk said that he was satisfied that the environmental risks associated with the expansion could be successfully mitigated.

Speaking in London earlier this month following the Group of Eight summit in Hokkaido, northern Japan van Schalkwyk said he was still hopeful of an agreement in Copenhagen in December 2009, but that developing countries would insist on defending their national interests.

Van Schalkwyk said other leadership was needed.

Van Schalkwyk remained hopeful that a deal could be struck in Copenhagen.