Drought-stricken farmers in the Gamtoos River Valley have had their already stringent water allocations from the Kouga Dam halved for the 2018/19 water year. With the Kouga Dam at only 7.7% capacity as of Friday, farmers will now be forced to...
Agrément South Africa is officially a fully-fledged legal entity of the Department of Public Works, following an announcement by Public Works Minister Thulas Nxesi. The entity began its operations, independent of the Council for Scientific and...
Eskom has agreed to take its 0% wage offer off the table and return to the negotiation table with labour unions in an effort to end protest action, which has disrupted electricity supply. Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan convened a...
Eskom began with Stage 1 load shedding on Friday morning and according to the utility the power cuts are expected to continue until 9pm tonight. The utility says the power cuts are due to the impact of the current illegal protest action by some its...
The South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) says it has reached the halfway mark on its project to rehabilitate section 1 of the R75 in Port Elizabeth. The R316 million project involves rehabilitating the previously poor condition of...
Johannesburg-based company NitraLife, along with its long-term partner Boland Dry Ice, has introduced a new innovative wet ice blasting technology which is set to revolutionise the industrial cleaning sector. The Coulson IceStorm90 ice blaster is...
Tshwane Mayor Solly Msimanga says the municipality needs R99 billion to improve infrastructure in the city. Speaking at his post-budget speech session recently Msimanga said that the total capital budget for the current financial year amounted to...
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan has called on all parties involved in the Eskom wage dispute to allow time for the negotiations to succeed. Gordhan noted that a continuous supply of electricity was in everyone’s best interest and urged...
South African energy regulator NERSA on Thursday gave power utility Eskom the go-head to recover R32.69 billion rand of costs incurred over the past three years through higher tariffs, about half what the utility had requested. Cash-strapped Eskom,...
Power utility Eskom says generation and distribution of electricity across its network is constrained due to acts of sabotage and intimidation that characterise the current industrial action by members of trade unions. According to the utility...
