In East London, a company is changing how South Africa thinks about food waste. Nambu, founded in 2018, initially focused on farming insects as a protein source for livestock. Today, the business is positioning insects as an essential service in...
South African rural and informal communities are poised to aid the circular economy. Daniel Motshwane, founder of Afrique Rising Trading (ART), a Pan-African social enterprise, aims to give communities the tools to bring income and...
South Africa’s water networks face escalating sabotage by criminal syndicates known as ‘water mafias’. By destroying infrastructure and exploiting tanker contracts, they profit from people’s desperation while deepening inequality. What began as...
Join AWSISA for an insightful session as we unpack the Critical Dialogue on Africa’s Water–Climate–Urban Nexus, exploring the challenges and opportunities shaping sustainable water solutions across the continent. This conversation will set the...
From 9 to 12 November 2025, more than 1,500 water and sanitation leaders, innovators, policymakers and practitioners from across Africa, the Global South, and beyond will gather at Emperors Palace, Johannesburg for the highly anticipated AWSISA...
The City of Johannesburg, together with Johannesburg Water and City Power, is running a Level 3 Disconnection Drive targeting chronic non-paying, high-consumption customers with long-standing, unpaid, and undisputed municipal debt. The drive is...
South Africa’s delisting from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) greylist bodes well for the integrity and reputation of the country’s financial system, status as an investment destination and for the economy as a whole, says President Cyril...
As South Africa’s largest development finance institution, the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) showcases how funding can unlock opportunities while also revealing persistent hurdles in water and sanitation investment. “Established in 1940,...
Every day, healthcare facilities create volumes of waste that must be disposed of safely and effectively. Kirsten Kelly recently visited Averda’s City Deep Electro-Thermal Deactivation (ETD) plant that receives around 1 000 tonnes of medical waste...
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