Various organisations and industry associations met at the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) today for the first planning meeting of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC). The National Electrical Test Facility (NETFA) TAC was launched on...
Nearly R20 million has been set aside to beef up security around municipal infrastructure to deal with increasing vandalism. This comes after the Mayenzeke Clinic in Khayelitsha was burgled earlier this month. Computers, nutritional products and...
Kliptown, Soweto is where the Freedom Charter was adopted in 1955. But there’s little evidence of the envisioned equality and dignity here today. It has even prompted the Human Rights Commission to investigate allegations of human rights...
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) is set to launch a citywide inquiry into the broader water situation in the City of Tshwane. The probe followed the negative results of water tests conducted by the Council for Scientific and...
Fish are dying in the polluted uMsunduzi River in KwaXimba. A spillage of vegetable oil and caustic acid from a Willowton Oil factory in Pietermaritzburg has created what has been dubbed as one of the worst environmental and health disaster in the...
With Mpumalanga dam levels continuing to drop, the Department of Water and Sanitation has called on all consumers in the province to intensify their water saving efforts until the next summer rains. The call comes against the backdrop of...
The Concrete Institute (TCI) has on behalf of the South African cement producers applied to the International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC) of South Africa to investigate the surge of imports of low-priced cement. TCI has lodged the...
With almost two months to go before the first possible summer rains, South Africa has a fairly sufficient amount of water in storage to sustain it through the wet season. The change in water consumption has contributed immensely to the improved...
All eyes are currently on Switzerland, where members of the 14th Conference of Parties to the Basel Convention (COP14) are considering a Norwegian proposal to add plastic to a list of wastes governed by the Convention that will see tighter...
A new study from environmental think tank Green Alliance has shown that bottled water alternatives are not as green as they claim to be. The study examined if alternative forms of packaging – aluminium, glass and cartons – are less harmful to the...
