The Johannesburg Road Agency (JRA) is shutting down Main Reef Road as it undertakes rehabilitation work as part of the City’s R30 million upgrade project. The project involves upgrading the M2 – Main Reef interchange at Press Street and the M2...
Phase 3 of the Nooitgedagt project is back online after the Department of Water and Sanitation restored the budget to R93 million. Contractors walked off site last week following an announcement by the department that it was slashing the budget by...
In an effort to combat the R19 billion infrastructure backlog City Power is conducting numerous street light installation and maintenance projects throughout the City. Thus far almost 200 street lights have been installed around the city since the...
Eskom has managed to secure a R5 billion loan from the Public Investment Corporation (PIC). In a statement released on Monday the PIC and the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) said that it had agreed to advance a R5 billion ridging facility...
Oral agreements, although theoretically legal, are often the cause of enormous problems in the construction and building industry and should be avoided. This is the view of the Uwe Putlitz, CEO of the Joint Building Contracts Committee (JBCC)....
Day zero is now also looming for the Eastern Cape’s Kouga region. Disadvantaged communities are already feeling the impact. Their main supply dam is at 9 percent. The majority of the three hundred thousand people in Hankey and Patensie areas...
By Patrick Dowling, WESSA: Western Cape Regional Membership Beyond the clamour around who’s to blame, conflicting scenario descriptions of day zero and its predicted date, individual and community responses and helpful tips, the drought, now...
The City of Cape Town has implemented a short-term management strategy for the Newlands Spring following complaints of congestion and conflict as residents scramble to collect water amid the City’s worst drought in history. The Newlands Spring has...
Volunteers that can donate time or goods to assist officials tasked with managing the Cape water crisis can now pledge their support through a platform hosted by the Water Institute of South Africa. The platform is a simple tool that allows...
Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs Barbara Thompson is calling on South Africans to get involved in the protection and conservation of wetlands in the country. Speaking ahead of the annual World Wetland day celebrations Thompson said wetlands...
