During 2020, South Africans recycled 1.1 million tonnes of paper and paper packaging, putting the country’s latest paper recovery rate at 73%, up from 68.5% in 2019. This is according to RecyclePaperZA, the paper recycling association, which states...
Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) CEO Chris Campbell is questioning the decision by the Government to import engineering skills when we have a current situation where our own local engineering skills in the private sector are under-utilized...
African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), in collaboration with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the African Development Bank (AfDB) and Making Finance Work for Africa Partnership (MFW4A) released the African Trade Finance...
There has been widespread acts of vandalism to water and sanitation infrastructure in the Western Cape. The recent discturbing incident was the attack of City of Cape Town water officers which left one in hospital. Added to this are continued...
Although the overall average of South Africa’s dams has begun a slight decline, figures show that most of the dams have sufficient water to see the country through the looming dry winter until the next summer rains, provided water users stick to...
Private sector formal building activity has been decimated by the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns and restrictions. Stats SA confirmed that in February this year, there was yet another contraction in activity, with the SQM of...
The South African construction industry is expected to bounce back in 2021, after being the worst-performing industry in the economy in 2020, with construction GDP down a crippling 20.3% in the year. This signaled the industry’s fourth consecutive...
2019 was the hottest year on record, not only in South Africa but across the globe. Impacts of this are severe, leading to droughts that adversely affect food security while limiting access to freshwater supply, both of which affect the most...
The first massive eucalyptus trees have been felled in the mid-Breede River area in a bold ‘value-adding chain’ project that will return 7 million litres of water per hectare cleared per year to the river system, and will sell much of the gum tree...
The rapid expansion of De Doorns – a town located in the Hex River Valley in the Western Cape – has put added pressure on its already scarce water resources. As a result, a 1.5 Mℓ/day reuse plant was designed, engineered, manufactured, installed...
