The City of Johannesburg has set aside R50 million for the electrification of the Slovo Park informal settlement. Speaking at a ground-breaking ceremony on Monday Herman Mashaba, the City’s executive mayor, vowed that the project will be completed...
One hundred and thirty-three Northern Cape youths have kick-started their environmental careers after recently being inducted into the Youth Environmental Services (YES) Northern Cape Programme. The learnership, which is funded by the Department of...
A recent study by Irish-based researchers has confirmed that plastic pollution is reaching deep into the ocean with results showing that over 70% of deep sea fish have ingested plastic. According to Anders Jacobson, co-founder and CEO of Blue, the...
A material recovery organisation representing the steel, tinplate and aluminium packaging industries in South Africa, is reminding South Africans that recycling their metals matter to the thousands of schools, collectors and convertors who earn a...
Today’s budget speech to be tabled by the finance minister, Malusi Gigaba, is expected to touch on the drought affecting the country, with the focal point on three provinces, the Eastern Cape, Western Cape and the Northern Cape. The drought...
Keeping abreast of the day-to-day costs of a project provide contractors with a framework to ensure that projects are not only delivered on budget but also ring-fences contractors from liquidity issues and reputational risk. This is the view of...
The South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) has applauded and embraced President Cyril Ramaphosa’s inaugural State of the Nation (SONA) address after the newly elected president highlighted the importance of the sector for the...
Housing authorities and local governments should begin to actively engage with the country’s suppliers of raw building materials in preparation of meeting the country’s massive 2.5 million housing backlog. This is the view of the Aggregate and Sand...
Newly elected president Cyril Ramaphosa has turned his attention to State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) to ensure that they deliver on their mandate. In his inaugural State of the Nation Address (SONA) the president said that government would intervene...
Infrastructure investment is key to government’s efforts to grow the economy, create jobs, empower small businesses and provide services to its people. This was the view of newly elected President Cyril Ramaphosa during his maiden State of The...
