With three of South Africa’s provinces having been declared drought disaster regions, the country as a whole faces a long-term water security challenge. Modular water treatment plants may provide an answer. South Africa’s urban areas generally...
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) Deputy Minister Andries Nel says South Africa is ready to collaborate in safeguarding water which is the catalyst for development. Speaking at the launch of the “International Decade for...
Westbury Clinic recently scooped first prize in the Health Completed Buildings at the Berlin World Architecture Festival Awards. The R23 million state of the art health facility was one of only three South African projects shortlisted for the...
South Africa’s first coastal bunker barge is now in operation at the Port of Richards Bay, where it will serve as a floating storage and fuel replenishment vessel for BP customer vessels at the port. The barge, known as the AMBER II, was delivered...
The City of Cape Town’s Disaster Risk Management Centre recently conducted an exercise to test the vehicle drive-through configuration of the City’s water collection points. Despite Day Zero being deferred the municipality has continued with its...
Learners at Grayston Preparatory School recently saw the concept of reduce, reuse, recycle in action after they received a donation of five recycled chandeliers. The chandeliers, which are shaped into exquisite balls of white flowers, are made from...
The Department of Environmental Affairs recently launched a state-of-the-art Weather Radar aimed at developing infrastructure and building capacity to improve rainfall estimation from multiple platforms that will be freely accessible to the...
A group of international researchers have found new methods to analyse and separate harmful and critical metals from environmental samples and electronic equipment in order to promote the circular economy. The research group, which is from the...
Anton Bredell, the Western Cape MEC for local government, environmental affairs, and development planning, recently stated that a waste crisis was imminent if the country did not start thinking differently. According to Bredell, the only way to...
The Executive Committee of the eThekwini Municipality have tabled a debt settlement plan to recover the substantial amount of money owed by the Department of Human Settlements to Council. According to the report the project debt on various housing...
