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....
The rainy season has begun in the Philippines. Every year floods kill hundreds of people across the country and cause millions of dollars worth of damage. Now one environmental group is teaching people how to save lives through recycling rubbish....
Recycling PET, the plastic used to manufacturer beverage bottles and food containers, has helped generate almost 26 000 indirect jobs, said Petco CEO, Cheri Scholtz. Scholtz believed the plastics recycling industry can reduce poverty across South...
