Discussions about South Africa’s infrastructure challenges usually focus on failing water systems, deteriorating roads, unreliable electricity supply and mounting maintenance backlogs. Less often discussed is one of the root causes of many of...
A fully integrated thunderstorm warning system can reduce the enormous damage that lightning, high winds, hail and flash floods do to commercial, residential and sports properties, municipal and private infrastructure. The costs of the subsequent...
The 14th edition of Big 5 Construct South Africa opened yesterday at Gallagher Convention Centre in Johannesburg, inaugurated by Sihle Zikalala, Deputy Minister, Department of Public Works and Infrastructure, South Africa. The opening ceremony was...
South Africa’s growing export performance is helping to drive economic growth, support jobs and create new opportunities for producers, as government continues its efforts to build an economy that works for all South Africans. New trade data...
GeT Metal Group (Pty) Ltd and its subsidiary GeT Alloys (Pty) Ltd have successfully eliminated virgin fossil fuels from their aluminium melting operations by launching a pioneering waste-to-energy initiative. The project transforms approximately...
The Minister of Transport, Barbara Creecy, and the Deputy Minister, Mkhuleko Hlengwa, have welcomed Cabinet’s decision to approve the closure of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP), popularly known as e-tolls – a move that will...
In the relentless battle against corrosion, South Africa’s infrastructure faces some of the harshest environmental conditions on the African continent. From salt-laden Atlantic winds along the West Coast and the humid Indian Ocean air near Durban,...
Residents and small businesses can currently drop off one load of soft garden greens (leaves and grass cuttings only) per day at Killarney Community Recycling Centre, while the City’s Urban Waste Management Directorate is making every effort to...
Eskom and Zululand Energy Terminal (ZET) have signed a Heads of Agreement (HOA) establishing the framework for a long-term strategic partnership to support South Africa’s gas-to-power programme. “Eskom will assume ‘foundation customer’ status at...
South Africa has welcomed the African Union’s declaration of 2026 as the Year of Water, an important recognition that water security is fundamental to achieving the continent’s developmental aspirations. Speaking at the inaugural...
