The city of Cape Town has launched an initiative to provide more compost bins for Cape suburbs. Seven different areas under the Subcouncil 1 will benefit from the new initiative and will assist residents in growing their own food and making better...
Twice as much food as previously estimated, or a third of all food available for human consumption, is wasted. Researchers from Wageningen University & Research have published a study that suggests consumers are wasting twice as much food as...
A dumping site in Salt River, Cape Town is unrecognizable these days after it has been turned into a community food garden. The founder of UK NGO, Progress London, says the life-changing project was made a reality because of funding from...
The Gauteng Provincial Government will in the next five years spend R60 billion on building and maintaining infrastructure. This will contribute to the creation of an additional 100 000 jobs, and facilitate the development of 50 black...
President Cyril Ramaphosa told Parliament last week that investors, including the finance industry, had responded enthusiastically to government’s renewed commitment to investing in infrastructure. Ramaphosa was replying to the...
There is a direct link between the stability of an economy and ongoing development – and currently the local construction and property industries are undeniably experiencing a lull due to reduced expenditure by government on large scale...
Billions of rand worth of government projects are on hold because of interference from the so-called construction mafia, according to the president’s head of investment infrastructure team, Kgosientso Ramokgopa. “Tens of billions of...
While Eskom previously said load-shedding would continue for 18 months, Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe yesterday told Parliament that it’s expected to continue for a minimum of two years. However mining and energy advisor Ted Blom, says...
Huge sums of money are spent developing world-class geosynthetic materials, but often insufficient care is taken during the installation of these products. Construct 3 Technologies’ unique Geo-Q software provides complete control over the process,...
Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has told Parliament that her department is on top of South Africa’s water crisis. “We want to assure the House that we have spent time putting together a response to our problem....
