Lake Manyara is drying up and experts have cautioned that unless drastic measures are taken, the water body could disappear in ten years’ time. An ecologist with Lake Manyara National Park, Yustina Kiwango, said that the current water depth...
More than five million people in Southern African may require humanitarian assistance during the 2012/13 period, if recent vulnerability assessments across eight countries are anything to go by. National Vulnerability Assessment Committees’...
Many EU-backed sanitation and water projects in sub-Saharan Africa are unsustainable because of missing technical and financial support, says a new financial audit of more than 20 development projects. A report by the European Court of Auditors...
Access to clean drinking water has been the subject of service delivery protests and even court action. For some communities, having permanent access to the resource has become a luxury. Unhappiness with the pace of delivery has seen many...
With the current world economic crisis, output for engineering work is relatively low. The scarcity of projects in the engineering sector, in general and the transportation engineering field, in particular, has created enormous competition in the...
“In the protection of our ecosystems we must invest in the most cost-effective ways with regards to human capital development and finance. To this end I would like to stress that nations that share ecosystems, such as international waters, can most...
Ark Hotel Construction time lapse video. Building 15 storeys in 2 days (48 hrs)
AfriSam has introduced a new range of branded premixed products that are expected not only to set the industry benchmark in terms of quality, but also to uplift communities around the country. Correctly formulated to industry best-practice...
Moody’s Investors Service cut South Africa’s government bond rating by one notch to Baa1 from A3 last Thursday, citing worries about the country’s institutions as well as future political stability and room for policy maneuvering....
An estimated R250 billion will be invested on upgrading the Port of Durban, as part of Transnet’s new Market Demand Strategy (MDS). The MDS will see the state-owned company pump R300 billion into infrastructure spend across South Africa in an...
