The 12th World Toilet Summit, a first for Africa, yesterday called for toilets to become an “aspirational product” that all communities would want to fight for. The founder of the World Toilet Organisation, Jack Sim, told delegates to...
Over 750 000 people from three Darfur states will have improved access to water supply and sanitation through a €3.3 million African Water Facility (AWF) grant. The project was recently launched during two separate ceremonies held on 25 November in...
Countries meeting at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 18) that ended in Doha, Qatar on the weekend agreed on a firm timetable to adopt a universal climate agreement by 2015, and launched a new commitment period under the Kyoto Protocol. They...
The Minister of Public Works, Thembelani Thulas Nxesi launched the National Contractor Development Programme (NCDP) in Durban last week. The NCDP sets the national framework for sustainable development of contractors, particularly targeting the...
The new K-series of the popular Bell Tractor Loader Backhoe (TLB) looks set to build on the success of the J-series by delivering even more in the way of productivity, uptime and lower daily operating costs. “It has been several years since Bell...
The second phase of the Western Aqueduct pipeline project in Durban is under way once again. The original award of an R864 million tender by the eThekwini municipality to Esorfranki and Cycad Pipelines was set aside by KwaZulu-Natal High Court when...
South Africans living in urban areas are not big on recycling and unless there is a major mindset change in the next four years the country could find itself having to fork out a lot more money to have refuse separated and removed. Water and...
Motorists to and from Port Elizabeth, travelling towards Grahamstown, King William’s Town, East London – as well as holidaymakers heading to the Eastern Cape, can again use the N2 bypass between Grahamstown and the coastal city. The provincial...
South Africa is facing a sanitation crisis aggravated by rapid urbanisation, a world toilet summit has heard. The chairwoman of Parliament’s human settlements portfolio committee, Beauty Dambuza, said last Tuesday there were huge disparities...
The project – one of South Africa’s biggest infrastructure jobs, employing more than 12 000 people – involves the laying of a 555km pipeline to transport diesel, jet fuel and petrol from Durban to Gauteng. The pipeline already...
