Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu says audit outcomes for municipalities have continued to regress with irregular and wasteful expenditure ballooning more than 70% for the 2016/17 year. Releasing the audit findings of the country’s 257 municipalities at...
The Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) has set aside R20 million for the development of a pedestrian bridge over railway tracks in Klipspruit, one of the oldest townships west of Johannesburg. The agency says the development is motivated by the high...
The City of Cape Town’s first temporary desalination plant in Strandfontein is delivering high-quality treated desalinated water into the City’s supply system. Executive Deputy Mayor, Alderman Ian Neilson says the plant is injecting 4.7 million...
The recent amendment to the gazetted Code of Good Practice on Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) is set to open up new opportunities for the industry. This is the view of Kwakho Mpepho, Education, Training and Transformation Manager at...
Minister of Water and Sanitation Gugile Nkwinti says an urgent intervention is need to align project management and planning with the department’s available budget. Speaking at the department’s Budget Vote speech, Nkwinti said realignment was...
Civil society action group Outa says government plans to spend approximately R88 500 to replace a single bucket toilet this year. How is this cost possible? Yamkela Ntola, OUTA’s Portfolio Manager for Water and Environment says overspending by the...
The City of Ekurhuleni is set to undertake a re-blocking project to reconfiguring the current layout of its informal settlements. Member of the Mayoral Committee (MMC) for Human Settlements Lesiba Mpya said the main purpose of the re-blocking...
City of Johannesburg Executive Mayor, Herman Mashaba has appointed a new MMC for Housing in an effort to turnaround the portfolio. The Mayor in a statement announced that Councillor Meshack van Wyk of the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP)...
Tshwane Human Settlements Minister Nomaindiya Mfeketo says the City’s recently launched Thembelihle Social Housing Village is an example of how to integrate mixed housing in the inner city as a way of undoing the apartheid legacy of racialised...
The office of the Public Protector in the Northern Cape has stepped in to assist communities facing numerous sewage problems in the Kimberley area. The Sol Plaatje municipality has been battling to resolve it for years. The Public Protector says...
