The Kouga municipality in the Eastern Cape has started construction on South Africa’s first plastic road. Local civil engineering and construction companies will team up with Scottish firm, MacRebur, to build a 1km stretch of plastic road. However, will plastic roads work in South Africa?
Originally established as Johnston Pumps India in 1952, WPIL Limited was founded in 1996 and has since built a strong global presence through its leading original equipment manufacturer (OEM) subsidiaries. These include Sterling Pumps (Australia),...
Droughts are not new to Gqeberha (formerly called Port Elizabeth). Located in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, Gqeberha experiences a semi-arid climate with erratic rainfall, making it prone to periodic water scarcity. This has inspired...
Dams have been emblematic of the World Bank’s approach to development for many decades. From the bank’s early years in the 1960s and 1970s, large-scale infrastructure projects such as dams, power plants and transport networks were central to its...