A reliable and efficient mobile crushing plant is a sum of several factors working together smoothly, which is well illustrated on Metso Mobile’s latest and most advanced track-mounted jaw crusher plant, the Lokotrack LT120. Significantly, the...
Reacting to the Auditor General’s (AG) report on local government last Tuesday, the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) said it painted a grim picture of incompetence, maladministration and waste of public money. “Cosatu demands that there must be...
Growing prosperity and urbanisation could double the volume of municipal solid waste annually by 2025, challenging environmental and public health management in the world’s cities, according to new research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute...
The report for 2010-2011 provides bleak insight into financial mismanagement and widespread lack of accountability by local government officials. Auditor-general Terence Nombembe said a mere 13 – or 5% – of the 283 municipalities in the...
Three months of negotiations and a fourth round of bargaining has borne fruit for municipal workers unions, which were on Friday due to sign a deal with the South African Local Government Association (Salga) in Pretoria, securing a 6.5% wage...
The South African Local Government Association (Salga) says municipalities are losing billions of rand in revenue due to electricity theft. The organisation has been unable to quantify the exact figure, but it says businesses in some municipalities...
The Free State Department of Roads claims it has reached “mutually agreeable settlements” with all but one of the contractors owed hundreds of millions of rand for work completed on 23 road rehabilitation contracts in the province. However,...
South Africans could face more power cuts, as the distribution grid will gradually collapse from 2015 unless a maintenance backlog is addressed, an expert said on Thursday. “We are three years away from collapse,” Deon Louw, the deputy...
Inferences that delaying the implementation of e-tolling will cause harm by reducing funding to social programmes is “emotional blackmail”, says the Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (OUTA). It rejects media reports of this idea and says the...
Building confidence among building contractors, manufacturers of building materials and quantity surveyors in South Africa has increased marginally. The immediate outlook, however, is that the local construction industry will continue to face...
