“Welcome — You are entering Jombe village, Turatea sub-district, Jeneponto district, preparing to be a faeces-free zone,” reads the yellow banner above the gate to Jombe village in South Sulawesi. Visitors cannot miss the banner, which...
With inspiration from a friend too lazy to take a shower and a few months of research on the internet, South African university student Ludwick Marishane has won global recognition for an invention that takes the water out of bathing. Marishane, a...
Tshwane Metro has dismissed as a hoax reports that striking municipal workers have pumped sewage into water reservoirs. They urged residents to ignore SMSs doing the rounds alleging that their drinking water was unsafe. Spokesman Nomasonto Ndlovu...
Basil Read recently acquired three Volvo PL4608 pipe layers from the Babcock International Group, effectively making it the owner of the largest fleet of Volvo pipe layers in Africa. Babcock is a key supplier to the material handling, road...
Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba has been tasked with fixing South Africa’s lumbering parastatals. Although he has held the position for more than 18 months, eight of the major public entities do not have a permanent CEO. Among...
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...
