President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on all stakeholders to roll-up their sleeves and create the jobs South Africa desperately needs. Rampahosa was speaking at the closing of the two-day Jobs Summit, which aims to create 275 000 direct jobs per...
The raising of the Clanwilliam Dam wall on the Olifants River in the Western Cape is due to start this week. The project follows years of delays and allegations of corruption. The dam is important for agriculture production in the area. Source:...
The Department of Water and Sanitation’s latest financial report has sparked concerns within the water stressed City of Cape Town. More than R1-billion in wasteful expenditure, and more than R4.9-billion in irregular spending was reflected by...
The City of Cape Town’s mayoral committee is set to embark on a multi-year project to more than double the current capacity of the Potsdam Wastewater Treatment Plant. The project, which will take place over the next six years, will improve the...
By Russell Dick* Water. In the last year, you’ve heard endless sound bites, read numerous articles, and had countless conversations with Capetonians and other affected stakeholders. So it’s likely that you already know this: there will never be any...
Eskom has placed one of its executives on precautionary suspension pending an investigation into maladministration. The utility announced the suspension of Molefi Nkhabu, its head of assurance and forensics, in a statement earlier this week noting...
The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) is calling on registered South African construction companies to attend workshops on the LHDA’s Procurement Framework for Phase II of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project. This comes after similar...
The Gauteng Department of Transport has embarked on a campaign to create awareness on the importance of transport as a driver and an enabler for economic growth. The campaign, which is in line with the province’s October Transport Month campaign,...
President Cyril Ramaphosa says identifying well-located areas for social housing in urban areas is a key element of government’s land reform programme. Speaking at the Franklin Housing Project title deed handover ceremony in Kokstad, KwaZulu-Natal,...
More than half of Eskom’s power stations are still running low on fuel. According to the utility’s spokesperson Khulu Phasiwe, 10 of Eskom’s 15 baseload stations throughout the country have less than three weeks of coal left.  Phasiwe told...
