According to Metro police, about 45 striking truck drivers were arrested in Gauteng on Thursday. “Charges include illegal marching… and public disturbance. It resulted in a serious accident that occurred an hour ago,” said...
South African Airways (SAA) face an uphill battle after its chairperson Cheryl Carolus and six other board members resigned. This all came after Public Enterprises minister Malusi Gigaba cancelled SAA’s annual general meeting this week and...
Every year Tiger Wheel & Tyre teams up with the SA National Blood Service (SANBS) to campaign for South Africans to voluntarily donate their blood, rather than wait around for attractive, young pale-faced vampires to take it against their will...
The South Durban basin could become a construction site for the next 40 years if all the city’s plans to expand the existing port are adopted. The estimated R250-billion plan is aimed at meeting the rapid need for shipping container capacity...
Waste industry experts across the country and internationally, will be descending on the East London International Convention Centre from 9 – 12 October 2012 to discuss pertinent waste management issues at this year’s WasteCon2012, South Africa’s...
Air pollution is a growing problem in Africa, driven by lack of regulations and poverty amongst others. Beatrice Philemon from IPP Mediareports that in Africa, urban outdoor air pollution is responsible for an estimated 63 000 premature deaths each...
Used cooking oil from the Spur Corporation is now being converted into biodiesel. More than a million litres have already been sued to power a range of fishing vessels, trucks and mining equipment. Spur has run this initiative for around six years...
In line with its fast-growing economy and abundance of natural resources, Mozambique is becoming a darling for energy-hungry countries and the corporates who mine that energy. According to Alastair Campbell, Standard Bank’s executive vice-president...
As the world searches desperately for ways to boost food production by at least 70% by 2050 to feed an increasingly hungry planet, many are looking to Africa as the place where a large part of this potential can be realised, mainly for its huge...
Africa is set to experience an energy boom with the recent announcement by the South African government of the lifting of the moratorium on shale gas exploration and the recent discovery of oil in Namibia, Ghana and others. Nowhere is this more...
