The 55c a litre cut in the petrol price from Wednesday is a lost opportunity by the government to resolve the impasse around paying for the upgrading of Gauteng freeways, according to Econometrix. The authorities could have reduced the petrol price...
Dumping of sewage sludge near Phoenix outside Durban has caused air and water pollution while residents have complained about the bad smell. The sludge dumping takes place every day at the eThekwini Water and Sanitation purification plant which...
By 2025 half the world’s population will not have enough water to meet its needs, warns Rashad Kaldany, urging governments and the private sector to work on solutions, which he says, do exist. By the time you finish reading this article; at least...
Phase II of Lesotho Highlands water is expected to deliver 465 million cubic metres a year to South Africa by 2020. Lesotho’s election results this week have seen the country experiment with its first coalition government when business ties with...
This is the demolition of an old building in Braamfontein, Johannesburg to make way for a station for the Gautrain Project.
Business is booming for Somalia’s pirates, whose attacks on commercial ships sailing near Africa’s east coast are more frequent, violent and lucrative than ever. Pirates took in an estimated $160 million in ransoms last year, and one...
Human Rights Commission to investigate Eastern Cape scholar transport failures. The DA welcomes the decision by the South African Human Rights Commission to investigate the Eastern Cape Provincial Government following its systematic failure to...
By Tony Stone Victor Kgomoeswana, a Pretoria Portland Cement business development executive, speaking at the SAPICS 2012 conference being held at South Africa’s world renowned pleasure resort, said that there is no such thing as an expert on...
The flight that crashed in Nigeria’s largest city of Lagos, killing all 153 people on board, reported both of its engines having failed before it went down, the civil aviation chief said on Monday. It was not yet clear what caused the Dana...
Several residents from Orange Farm in south Gauteng have barricaded sections of the Golden Highway during a service delivery protest today, police said. “The protesters are using rocks and tyres. The protest started at around 01h00, and it is still...
