It is policy conference time for the ANC in June and the performance and role of local government will once again be up for discussion and solutions to its problems proposed. But previous interventions that were supposedly intended to cure local...
A lesson for Africa An international research project has been launched to improve the food supply chain in order to meet the rising global demand for food and protect the environment. The three year programme – Step Change in Agri-Food...
The process of regional integration in the East African community is largely premised on the ease of movement and communication. The ease with which people move from one country to another plays a major role in how integration will occur, if at all...
Eastern Cape Premier Noxolo Kiviet today officially handed over the uMthatha Airport to Defence and Military Veterans Minister Lindiwe Sisulu for development and management by the South African National Defence Force (SANDF). According to the...
The upgraded Hyundai HD series introduced to the local market by Hyundai Automotive South Africa this week brings a new dynamism and capability to the light and medium duty trucks. The new HD65 and HD72 are tough, but now even more stylish,...
Today marked the official opening of the Sasol Infrachem Laboratory at the Sasol One Site in Sasolburg, a facility that conducts process analyses for the chemical industry. As part of the R14 billion Sasolburg Expansion Project that started in...
In the 2010 edition of the biennial Logistics Performance Index (LPI), Botswana was ranked 134th out of 155 countries with researchers grouping it among the year’s “10 most significant under-performers”. The index, produced...
KEW Foundries has just completed a multi-million rand order for Gunric Valves, to cast seven valve body and disc sets for use by a large water utility. The biggest butterfly valves that this leading manufacturer of high quality valves has supplied...
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan says that the facts around the R20 billion Gauteng e-tolling saga will be presented to Parliament. Answering the debate on his budget vote speech on Friday, Gordhan accused opposition parties of just trying to score...
A pioneering development in Windsor East north of Johannesburg is offering affordable housing with a difference in the form of ‘container living’. The development initially caused a stir in the Windsor East suburb when steel shipping...