Globally, 3.4 billion people lack safe sanitation, and untreated wastewater continues to pollute rivers and groundwater. Since 1977, BORDA (Bremen Overseas Research and Development Association) has worked to close this gap in over 25 countries....
Police fired rubber bullets, stun grenades and tear gas at people protesting against water outages in Johannesburg. Protesters GroundUp spoke to said they had been without water for over four days and there had been intermittent water for weeks....
South Africa has high recycling rates thanks to waste reclaimers but refuses to treat them as real workers. They collect up to 80% of recycled packaging, yet remain invisible to policy, unpaid, and unprotected. Regenize doesn’t just recycle,...
Government has welcomed Fitch’s decision to affirm South Africa’s long-term foreign and local currency debt ratings at “BB-” and maintain the stable outlook. According to Fitch, South Africa’s credit rating is constrained by several factors,...
The Department of Transport has officially gazetted the long-awaited National Land Transport Amendment Act, along with its amended regulations. The Act introduces a new transport category, e-hailing services, as a recognised mode of public...
Circularity forces the fast-paced and harsh business environment to slow down and foster collaboration where there previously was none. The peak of this collaborative process is industrial symbiosis, the process of having the waste of one business...
The Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) today launched its latest CDRI GIR working paper, Infrastructure Resilience in Africa, spotlighting the urgent need to embed resilience into infrastructure planning across the continent to...
The IWMSA Central Branch hosted a Women’s Month event where four speakers shared stories about their journeys, values and resilience in an industry that is pivotal to sustainability. Makgabo van Niekerk, EnviroServ’s Head of Public Affairs and...
In a move that marries its energy mandate with a vision for a sustainable future, state-owned power utility Eskom has officially plugged into the future of transport with the introduction of its inaugural fleet of electric vehicles. The initiative...
Across Africa, farmers rely on water from dams to irrigate their crops through periods of drought. However, farmers and water managers often struggle to accurately estimate and monitor the available water in dams. To address the challenge,...
