Residents and business owners in the small North West farming town of Koster near Rustenburg are rejoicing on Tuesday night. An interim court order has granted their local ratepayers’ association permission to take control of the...
This past week has been a busy one for Plastics SA as it used Sustainability Week, World Environment Day and World Oceans Day to drive home efforts to keep plastic pollution out of the environment. Douw Steyn, Sustainability Director at Plastics...
Refuse collection in KwaMashu and uMlazi has once again been disrupted as a result of industrial action by contractors. As an interim measure, the eThekwini Municipality says it’s Cleansing and Solid Waste unit will be utilising internal resources...
The Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA), Dr Zweli Mkhize, has taken a decision not to renew the State of National Drought Disaster which lapsed today in terms of legislation. Mkhize says since the Inter-Ministerial...
Poor planning and shoddy workmanship have stalled a 165 million rand government project that was supposed to create much needed job opportunities for the people of Hankey in the Eastern Cape. Four years on since building commenced The Sarah...
Power utility Eskom has laid load shedding rumours to rest after messages circulating on social media suggested there would be power cuts this week as a result of impending strike action. In a statement released on Tuesday the utility said that...
It’s not every day or year that Johannesburg Water (JW) gets to launch two water reservoirs in less than six months. The Orange Farm and Diepsloot reservoirs were launched in January and March 2018, respectively. These are big, wide concrete...
The City of Cape Town’s Transport and Urban Development Authority is set to spend the bulk of its capital budget for the next three years on new housing opportunities, new roads and infrastructure for the MyCiTi bus service. Given the dire need for...
In an effort to safeguard the environment and combat pollution the City of Johannesburg is set to roll out a phased approach to make separation at source mandatory for households. According to Nico de Jager, the City of Johannesburg’s Member of the...
The R51 road between Vereeniging and Balfour has officially been opened three months ahead of schedule. Gauteng MEC for Roads and Transport Ismail Vadi, who opened the road on Monday, said this is an indication that the Gauteng Provincial...
