The tolling of urban road infrastructure is fundamentally wrong, the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) said. Following the Constitutional Court ruling that halted the South African National Roads Agency’s (Sanral’s) plans to toll the N1 and N2...
A R120 million community development training programme has kicked off in anticipation of the construction of the N2 Wild Coast Toll Road. The programme has been undertaken by the South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) and aims to...
Volvo Group Southern Africa is on the expansion train with new facilities currently being developed in Pinetown, Port Elizabeth, Kenya and Zambia. The automaker also plans to expand its market share across Africa in 2017. In the second half of...
Air pollution in Africa has led to the premature deaths of 712,000 people every year. This amounts to more deaths than those who die as a result of unsafe water, malnutrition and unsafe sanitation. These facts were recently presented by the World...
Is solar energy currently making a significant enough contribution to the national energy grid? With 1,484MW of renewable energy projects having recently been awarded, Davin Chown, director at Genesis Eco Energy, says solar has made a significant...
Polystyrene recycling in South Africa showed increased growth in 2016, contrary to international reports that suggest the material has been “challenging to recycle”, or in some instances, is unrecyclable. The reprocessing of expanded and high...
Wastewater treatment plants could depend less on Eskom by using the biogas formed onsite. This is according to wastewater solutions company WEC Projects. The company explains that methane rich biogas, which is formed as a by-product of sewage...
The Plastics|SA Clean-Up Crew has been tasked with the responsibility of ensuring that the routes and surrounding areas for three of Cape Town’s biggest spectator events are kept clean and litter-free. For the 10th consecutive year, Plastics|SA’s...
The City of Cape Town still finds itself on the fast track to having no useable water left in just over three months. This comes after two years of below than average rainfall, and bringing water usage under control now remains one of the city’s...
Several independent power producers (IPPs) have received budget quotes from Eskom which contain the costs involved to connect them to the national power grid. President Jacob Zuma put the minds of many at ease during last week’s state of the nation...
