Construction has started on South Africa’s first plastic road. It’s being created in Jeffreys Bay in the Eastern Cape, and if it proves successful more might be on the cards.
Forty contractors have been blacklisted by the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) from doing business with the department and its entities. The blacklisting spans from June 2024 to date. Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson said this...
What’s the connection between roads and conflict in west Africa? This may seem like an odd question. But a study we conducted shows a close relationship between the two. We are researchers of transnational political violence. We analysed 58,000...
The Daily Maverick recently reported that the Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure, Dean Macpherson, announced the completion of two technical investigations into the tragic building collapse in George, Western Cape, in which 34 construction...