Vela VKE (part of the SMEC Group) head of Rustenburg (North West Province) division, Tshepo Matshego, points out that the company is responsible for the design and construction monitoring phases of the North-West Corridor of the Rustenburg rapid...
Consulting firm SRK has provided specialist technical services to subsidised housing projects in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) for many years and was recently able to get more directly involved in housing roll-out through Metroprojects Development KZN who is...
Consulting engineers GIBB is one of the member companies in the 2 037 consortium for the implementation of Gauteng’s 25-year Integrated Transport Master Plan, spearheaded by the Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport. The Integrated Transport...
Role players within the sphere of infrastructure delivery and construction should expect the parameters in which they have operated over the last three years to remain as certain as death and taxes during 2013, writes Richard Jansen van Vuuren. The...
The Congress of South African Trade Unions has promised to take the fight against e-tolls to Parliament, after the North Gauteng High Court today (16 Dec 2012) dismissed an application for the system to be set aside. The court also ordered the...
The Zimbabwean government has acquired two state-of-the-art pothole-patching machines that will be used to rehabilitate the country’s major highways. The machines, worth US$555 000 (R4.85 million), will be first used in Matabeleland South and...
Since the 1990s the transport sector policies have been modified to accommodate market-determined decisions, enterprise autonomy, and private participation in the ownership and management of transport business. Joining ABN from Cape Town for an...
The media has recently reported on scores of matriculants being turned away from various institutions of higher learning. Desperation has forced them to join long queues at various campuses in a bid to enroll in whatever courses are available at...
New vehicle sales in South Africa with regards to light, medium and heavy commercial vehicles ended 2012 on a high note with aggregate annual industry sales up from 175 986 in 2011 to 183Â 917. The number of light commercial vehicles and trucks and...
South Africa’s electricity network requires considerable reform over the coming decades if the country is to successfully diversify its generation mix to sources other than coal to meet the increasing demand for power. This view is supported by The...