Richard Jansen van Vuuren speaks to Melinda Esterhuizen, Echo Floors sales and marketing director, about the design-to-installation solutions offered by her company. Please supply a brief background to the Echo Group The Echo Group comprises four...
I have fond memories of years as a municipal engineer, particularly the 21 years spent serving and assisting IMESA grow to what it is today. It was at the last IMESA council meeting in Cape Town that I was asked to perform the official opening of...
The local aviation industry is in uproar over a new tax that will have far-reaching effects on revenue and employment for the entire supply chain. It is due to be introduced in six weeks’ time. The South African Revenue Service (Sars) in May...
A Truck crashes into a Heald Roadblocker at 80kph (50mph) to prove its indestructibility.
The Sadc regional integration process would be negotiated to its final end despite the upsurge in non-tariff barriers imposed by member states, a cabinet minister has said. Non-tariff barriers (NTBs) are trade restrictions and they take a different...
The latest twist in the saga of Kenya airports, is now hitting the headlines in Nairobi, with allegations of a million dollar bribe having been given to an unnamed official, who subsequently tried to turn all hell loose when “his friends” did not...
DHL, the world’s leading logistics company, has equipped its fleet of couriers in the Central Africa and Indian Ocean (CENIO) region with direct communication headsets for motorcycles. The advanced Bluetooth headsets for the motorcycles will...
Mozambique is recovering a large part of the cargo it previously lost to other operators in the region for reasons of safety and quality of rail and port infrastructure, the chairman of state port and rail management company Portos e Caminhos de...
The head of Tanzania’s ports authority has been suspended over his alleged involvement in cargo theft and embezzlement of public funds. Six other officials were also suspended for the same reasons. In a statement on its website, Tanzania’s ministry...
Its tarmac littered with dozens of dilapidated planes, the airport in Congo’s capital Kinshasa makes clear the dire state of aviation even by Africa’s generally low standards. The planes have been abandoned either as mechanical failures...
