With stage 6 loadshedding, increasing fuel prices, day zero and winter, we all need some good news. Infrastructure News brings you all the latest positive news to come about from the month of June. Matjhabeng water plants receive massive security...
Joblessness and low economic growth are chief among South Africa’s most pressing issues. In the former, overall – according to the latest QLFS – the country has an unemployment rate of 34,5%, while among young people aged between 25 – 34 it...
Though the mining and power sectors tend to take up much of the spotlight around carbon emission reduction strategies in Africa, construction sectors must not be overlooked in the drive towards achieving Net-Zero. WSP in Africa Property &...
South Africa has a long and prestigious history of wastewater treatment process modelling that is internationally recognised. Sadly, there is a slow, minimal uptake of this research and work by our own municipalities. By: Kirsten Kelly Large,...
With the introduction of the extended-producer responsibility (EPR) regulations, a wider industry adoption of recyclate replacing raw materials, and several voluntary agreements that promote material circularity, all eyes are on the South African...
Electric vehicles are the future of transportation, with many countries already putting a time limit on the future of fossil fuel-driven cars. In South Africa, this is both a challenge and an enormous opportunity. By Viren Sookhun, MD at Oxyon The...
In continuous efforts to ramp up interventions to affected communities faced with severe water shortages in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro, the Department of Water and Sanitation in conjunction with the Metro is fast-tracking the repair and upgrades...
The Minister of Water and Sanitation, Senzo Mchunu held a closed working session with the Executive Mayor of Alfred Nzo District Municipality and the officials from the Department of Water and Sanitation, as well as from the District and Local...
Since 2020 South Africa’s construction industry has had to contend with enforced pandemic-induced shutdowns, civil unrest, natural disasters and more recently, the ongoing war in Ukraine, all of which have wreaked havoc on supply chains and...
Leading black-owned contractor Concor is engaging on a 17-month project to construct a new pollution control dam at De Beers’ Venetia diamond mine, South Africa’s largest diamond producer. Known for its depth of experience from a long legacy of...
