Scientists at the University of Dundee have discovered that E. coli bacteria could play a crucial role in capturing and storing carbon dioxide. Professor Frank Sargent and colleagues at the University of Dundee’s School of Life Sciences, working...
Environmentally-friendly packaging is becoming increasingly essential according to a leading data and analytics company. GlobalData says it expects demand for environmentally-friendly packaging to continue to increase in response to heightened...
The Department of Water and Sanitation has denounced the sale of private borehole water after it says it was alerted to a trend of people selling water from their private boreholes. The Department says this recent practice of the secondary trade of...
The eThekwini Municipality is investigating the installation of safety barriers on some of its bridges in an urgent bid to stop the scourge of stones and bricks being thrown at vehicles from overhead bridges. The decision comes after two children...
The Competition Commission has given three major construction firms the green light to enter into economic alliances with black-owned firms recommending that the deals be approved by the Competition Tribunal. Large construction firm Raubex is...
The Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) has issued the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) with a Prohibition Directive for operating under conditions which might be a threat to safe railway operations, which lead to the collision at the...
Site preparation for the Monwabisi desalination plant has kicked off in Cape Town as the City prepares projects to bring additional water supply online to combat the unprecedented drought. The Monwabisi desalination plant is one of seven projects...
Around 200 people were injured on Tuesday morning when two Metrorail trains collided at the Geldenhuys station in Germiston. According to the Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) a total number of 226 injuries were reported with the train crew of both...
Refuse removal services have resumed in the eThekwini Municipality with striking Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) employees returning to work on Tuesday. According to the municipality refuse removal services resumed after the Municipality...
The Department of Water and Sanitation met with AGRI-SA recently to discuss a way forward for the agricultural sector to deal with the challenges created by the debilitating drought engulfing the Western Cape. While the general consensus was that...
