New construction regulations announced this week require health and safety practitioners in the construction industry to register with the South African Council for the Project and Construction Management Professions (SACPCMP). Construction health...
Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu has proposed a two-year extension of the moratorium on new applications for onshore and offshore exploration rights and on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) gas-extraction technique. Earlier this month...
Transforming the City of Cape Town’s current road-based public transport system, and providing reliable, efficient mass transport services to the people, is the aim of Cape Town’s Integrated Rapid Transit project, commonly referred to as MyCiTi....
Electricity levels in the port city of Beira in central Mozambique have reached critical levels following a major breakdown at the Chibata sub-station in Manica at the end of January. The public electricity company, EDM, has been struggling to...
Valentine’s Day has become a blooming trade in flowers for IAG Cargo as preliminary figures from key Latin American producers, show that flower volumes from the important markets of Colombia and Ecuador have increased by about 25 per cent on last...
The number of informal waste pickers who collect garbage at municipal landfill sites and sell it for recycling is growing. Typically seen as a nuisance, government has previously attempted to ban the practice of waste picking. However, government...
The amount of untreated waste material containing uranium is growing after the 28% percent plunge in the gold price last year left many mine sites abandoned. Waste rock from hundreds of mines has been deposited around Johannesburg over the years,...
South Africa explosives and specialty chemicals group AECI is expanding its reach into Africa by acquiring Clariant’s business on the content. Through its subsidiary ImproChem Proprietary Limited, AECI has agreed to buy Clariant Southern Africa...
The term toxic waste is widely used and difficult to define. For easy reference it should include substances which are harmful to life and the environment ie poisonous, radioactive, flammable, explosive, corrosive, carcinogenic, mutagenic, and...
