All fees for motor vehciles will be increased with 8% in the Easern Cape as from the 1st of July 2012. The Eastern Cape is currently the fourth highest in the country in comparison with other provinces. It is important to note that the increase of...
The state and safety of South Africa’s decades-old passenger trains came under the spotlight at Parliament on Tuesday. “Metrorail trains fail in all respects to meet international standards, except their heating system,” Passenger Rail Agency...
According to the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA), Cape Town International Airport needs a rail link to the city. Prasa CEO Lucky Montana said that 12 million tourists pass through Cape Town International Airport every year, which is a...
Government and parties opposed to the e-tolling of Gauteng’s freeways have agreed to a follow-up meeting to discuss various issues regarding the project, as part of finding an amicable solution. The Inter-Ministerial Committee on the Gauteng...
A Metrorail train with about 500 passengers crashed into a stationary goods train at Fisantekraal train station near Durbanville on Tuesday night, hours after rail boss Lucky Montana disclosed to Parliament the shocking state of SA’s trains. “If we...
Large corporations who have been buying up vast stretches of African farmland in recent years, whether based in Dubai or London, understand that it’s the access to water that they get from the land deals, which they often get for free and...
It’s safe to say that SA’s water infrastructure is in the same position that the energy sector was in a decade ago. Without huge investment to rehabilitate and replace ageing infrastructure, supply and quality are under threat....
Political leaders meeting at the Rio+20 Summit this week must put water at the heart of sustainable development, making universal access to safe drinking water and sanitation part of a new set of post-2015 development goals, the head of the World...
In order to ensure punctuality of safai karamcharis, the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) has distributed 28 biometric machines among the sanitation contractors. The contractors have further allotted these machines to supervisors. The...
British multinational banking firm, the HSBC Group has launched a five-year $100 million water programme and selects Ghana to be one of the beneficiary countries of the project. The investment is to help transform the lives of more than 1 million...
