The South African Sanitation Technology Enterprise Programme (SASTEP) is a national system of #innovation platform that seeks fast-track the adoption of innovative and emerging #sanitation technologies in South Africa through fostering local manufacturing and commercialization. The programme was created by the Water Research Commission (WRC) in partnership with the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI), and the Bill and Melinda Foundation (BMGF) and with the support of the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS).
The programme is an operation vehicle of the WRC’s transformational vision SANiTi: Sanitation Transformation Initiative.
Construction is male-dominated. In the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Australia, the percentage of women in construction has grown to about 12%, but most countries fall under 10%. At 11%, South Africa is just behind the leaders in terms of gender...
Vivo Energy, a company owned by global commodities trader Vitol, is set to invest an initial R10 billion in its South African operations following its merger with Engen, as announced by South Africa’s trade minister, Ebrahim Patel, on...
On Monday, 10 February 2024, Minister of Water and Sanitation, Ms Pemmy Majodina, officially handed over the Lubisi Water Treatment Works in the Chris Hani District Municipality, Eastern Cape. The project, implemented under the department’s...