A manhole next to the R59 in Parys is overflowing with raw sewage which eventually ends up in the Vaal River. Johan Smit reported the manhole on Mobilitate earlier in the week and said the raw sewage flows into a stream that connects with the Vaal...
Stellenbosch University’s iShack project, which aims for “improved” shacks, allowed for incremental upgrading of informal settlements, enabling residents to assess services such as electricity and sanitation, the university’s Mark...
Engineering firm Sanyati, which employs about 2 500 people and is black-empowered, is about to be liquidated. The reason is that government has not paid Sanyati for the work done for it. Sanyati rehabilitated roads. This was part of South Africa’s...
The former Chief Executive Officer of the National Home Builders Registration Council (NHBRC), Sipho Mashinini, has been found guilty of three charges of corruption and financial misconduct and has been removed from his post. This was confirmed in...
Acid mine drainage, municipal water losses and farmers’ unlawful water use were each independently putting the Vaal River system at risk, the Department of Water Affairs said yesterday. The Vaal River system is crucial to South Africa’s wellbeing...
The North West, where many roads have been left to disintegrate, has become the latest province to ask the SA National Roads Agency (Sanral) to take some of its road network off provincial books. Sanral will step in to try to limit the number of...
Poor government service delivery, especially in electricity, is impeding business growth in South Africa, according to Grant Thornton’s latest quarterly International Business Report, published last Tuesday. As local communities grow impatient with...
A Gauteng municipality has borrowed R150 million from two commercial banks to pay its service providers. Minutes of a special council meeting showed Emfuleni municipality, consisting of Vanderbijlpark, Vereeniging, Sebokeng, Evaton, and surrounding...
Sustainability incorporating water recovery and rain water harvesting bring benefits The new R670 million, state-of-the-art Unilever savoury dry food plant at Riverhorse Valley in Durban has set a new benchmark in South Africa’s industrial sector....
The South African Water Meter Manufacturers’ Association has welcomed new government plans to invest billions of rand into infrastructural projects, urging that the conservation of dwindling water resources be among its most important priorities....
