E-toll operator, the Electronic Toll Corporation (ETC), will have to be shut down if the contentious system is scrapped. CEO Salahdin Yacoubi says this will result in the loss of 1 400 jobs, including his own, and adds that 65% of ETC employees are...
The Gauteng Provincial Government last Wednesday officially delegated some housing and human settlements functions as well as decision-making authority to the three metros in the province. Gauteng MEC for Local Government and Housing Humphrey...
Acid mine drainage (AMD) is of great concern to the Gauteng Provincial Government, according to the State of Environment Report released by Gauteng Agriculture, Rural and Social Development MEC Nandi Mayathula-Khoza last Wednesday. “Many of...
Problems at the passenger train service Metrorail were detrimental to South Africa’s economic growth and development, President Jacob Zuma said last Thursday. He told reporters on a tour of Gauteng public transport infrastructure he had experienced...
Transport utility Transnet’s plan to invest some R330 billion in infrastructure over the next seven years should create an incentive for more black people to pursue engineering as a career, speakers at the fourth National Society of Black Engineers...
Chairman of the Black Business Council, Sandile Zungu, says the outcomes of the government’s R3.2 trillion infrastructure programme must be transformative and not create jobs and businesses for overseas countries. He was speaking during a...
SANRAL will probably need another government bailout later this year if the Gauteng tolling dispute continues. “The minister of finance has indicated that another appropriation bill may be necessary,” said Andrew Donaldson, the National Treasury’s...
At least R5 billion worth of new infrastructure and property projects are on the cards for Mogale City on the West Rand (Gauteng), which is aiming to become one of the top economic growth areas nationally. And the residential property market in the...
Bokaa and Letsibogo dams are currently at their lowest water levels in five years. According to the Water Utilities Corporation (WUC), Letsibogo Dam’s level decreased by 46% between June 2011 and June 2012, making it the worst recorded...
Llewellyn Lewis, the principal consultant at the BMI building research strategy consulting unit, said the worst of the recession was behind the building and construction industry and it could look forward to slow and steady growth across all...
