Ethekwini municipality head of water and sanitation Neil Macleod has questioned research revealing high levels of a toxic chemical in the city’s sea water. But the scientist, Hideshige Takada of Tokyo University, who recently presented the findings...
We work on construction sites everyday wearing hard hats. We know safety is important but if it’s uncomfortable, most guys won’t be safe. We developed this Head Protection Gear to make wearing your hard hat more comfortable and...
Transport minister Ben Martins on Monday turned down proposals to install cameras and panic buttons on trains. The minister put in writing that a technical evaluation had been conducted to check whether the safety measures would be possible to...
A three-day African runway safety workshop was on Monday opened in Accra to deliberate on practical measures to improve runway safety and to increase awareness on the part of stakeholders. The workshop attended by representatives of the...
FORMER Finance minister Ng’andu Magande says he agrees with a Southern African Development Community (SADC) technical report that railway concessions in the region have generally been characterised by declining performance. The report further...
As a result of the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) eviction order, truck drivers in the region will be vacating Kampala’s new taxi park. The truck drivers have up to the 30th September to leave the park and in the meantime they are looking...
Most of the increasing number of alternative building technologies on offer now to help reduce the increasing backlog of housing in South Africa are essentially concrete systems. This is according to Adéle de Lange, human settlements technical...
September 2012: South Africa will run dry by 2050, should no action be taken to conserve water. It is pertinent that the key players in South Africa’s food industry implement strict water saving measures through the use of water recycling, to help...
Sanitation will take centre stage in government’s infrastructure build programme, Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale told Parliament on Friday. Tabling a summary of the long-awaited report of the Ministerial Sanitation Task Team (MSST)...
The opportunities for South African companies in Mozambique lay in servicing the burgeoning infrastructure, mining, agro-processing and port development industries, Rand Merchant Bank business development director Tshepidi Moremong said on...
