About 13 000 highly qualified Nigerians with qualifications such as PhD’s, masters and bachelor degrees, have applied to be trucks drivers for the Dangote Group. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria’s unemployment rate is around...
National carrier, RwandAir has received the second Bombadier CRJ 900 NextGen aircraft. The First aircraft was delivered two weeks ago, and begun its test flights last Thursday. Both crafts have the capacity to seat 75 passengers including seven...
It is estimated that Uganda loses approximately Shs900 billion ($360 million) annually on road due to limited railway functionality, a National Planning Authority official has said. While presenting a revised draft of the National Vision 2040, Dr...
Mitsubishi Motors SA, which markets a growing range of passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in South Africa, has joined up with Rhino Force, a well-established organisation which is involved in creating public awareness and support for...
“Despite the fact that the proportion of households living in formal dwellings has gone up by 12,5% since 1996, 8,8% of households still do not have access to piped water, 31 % of households still do not have acceptable sanitation facilities. While...
The Cement & Concrete Institute (C&CI) Education Programme for 2013 has been published. Petrus Jooste, education and training manager of the C&CI, says concrete training plays a vital role at a time when the shortage of skills is...
The theme of this year’s CESA Conference is “Unlocking Infrastructure Delivery and Restoring the Ethical Balance in Construction”. The two part theme implies that infrastructure delivery is locked. “We are not getting anywhere with this in mind,”...
The proportion of South Africans with access to electricity, piped water and sanitation increased considerably over the past decade, according to the country’s latest national census. Statistics South Africa released the results of census...
Plans by the eThekwini municipality to use recycled water to provide 10% of its water needs have been dealt a heavy blow by citizens. A petition with 5 000 signatures was handed over to the municipality as part of the environmental impact...
South Africa, under its Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Program (REIPP), approved $5.4bn to develop clean energy projects and reduce dependence on coal energy. The country’s energy minister Dipuo Peters said the government has...
