While the South African built environment and construction industry continues to battle the slump, economic pressure has led to a number of contractors revising their pricing strategies to see how they can offer services at a lower price than their...
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s highly anticipated cabinet reshuffle was announced on Monday evening leaving the National Executive with a whole new look. In a media briefing at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, the President said he had made the...
Lives of those living in rural areas have changed for the better – thanks to innovation. The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has developed a water treatment system to get water from rivers. The project was first piloted...
KwaZulu-Natal could soon be added to the growing list of drought disaster areas following Umgeni Water’s recent announcement that one of the province’s main storage dam levels is critically low. In a recent statement the utility said it was...
Gugile Nkwinti has been appointed the new Minister of Water and Sanitation in President Cyril Ramaphosa’s highly anticipated cabinet reshuffle. Nkwinti was reassigned together with several other members of the national executive, in an...
The eThekwini Municipality will be conducting a major water installation on the GO!Durban bus route which is expected to leave residents in surrounding areas short on water for a period of 12 to 15 hours. In a statement released on Monday the...
The contract to provide an emergency desalination plant for the Victoria & Alfred (V&A) Waterfront in Cape Town was recently awarded to Quality Filtration Systems (QFS) and Osmoflo. According to QFS the project, which will address the...
The Mpumalanga provincial government has pumped more than R13.2 billion into the roll out of public infrastructure in the last four years according to Premier David Mabuza. Delivering his State of the Province Address on Friday, the premier said...
Despite a growth in passenger numbers at the country’s nine airports overall air travel remained under strain in the fourth quarter of 2017 according to the Airports Company South Africa’s quarterly Aviation Barometer published this week. The...
The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) has reintroduced the Main Line Passenger Service between Johannesburg and Musina. The service, which was withdrawn in 2014 due to the rationalisation of train services, will resume from Wednesday,...
