It is policy conference time for the ANC in June and the performance and role of local government will once again be up for discussion and solutions to its problems proposed. But previous interventions that were supposedly intended to cure local...
KEW Foundries has just completed a multi-million rand order for Gunric Valves, to cast seven valve body and disc sets for use by a large water utility. The biggest butterfly valves that this leading manufacturer of high quality valves has supplied...
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan says that the facts around the R20 billion Gauteng e-tolling saga will be presented to Parliament. Answering the debate on his budget vote speech on Friday, Gordhan accused opposition parties of just trying to score...
A pioneering development in Windsor East north of Johannesburg is offering affordable housing with a difference in the form of ‘container living’. The development initially caused a stir in the Windsor East suburb when steel shipping...
SANRAL CEO Nazir Alli has vehemently denied allegations of breaching transport policy and good governance made by John Clarke, a social worker, in a complaint he has filed with the public protector about Sanral’s dealings with bidding companies on...
Law enforcement processes and other forensic investigations were under way in Limpopo, “ensuring that any wrongdoing is identified and necessary action taken against individuals involved”, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said in Parliament on...
The Master Builders South Africa (MBSA), a national organisation representing the building industry, is none too pleased with Tokyo Sexwale’s proposal for a state construction company. “We are very concerned with the proposition tabled...
South Africa – recycling for cash: Creative entrepreneurs in South Africa are benefiting economically from recycling electronic waste by using it as raw materials for manufacturing. They’re also refurbishing computers and selling them as...
For most South Africans accessing safe, drinking water is as simple as opening a tap in their home. However in Gabon, residents in rural areas and the poorer suburbs of big cities have to walk several hundred metres to obtain water from more...
South Africa’s Cabinet approved a carbon capture and storage (CSS) roadmap for the storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) in deep geological formations. CCS has been identified in the South African government’s long-term mitigation scenarios plan as one...
