A R5,5 million investment has been awarded to five local plastics collectors to help expand the existing separation, collection, sorting and/or mechanical recycling facilities of these companies. The investment was awarded by the Polyolefin...
Elsie Snyman, CEO of Industry Insight, chats to IMIESA Magazine editor Alastair Currie about the qualitative and quantitative elements included in CESA’s bi-annual survey, non-payment issues and touches on the contraction in the African and...
Africa has seen a decrease in the number and value of construction projects this year, compared to previous years, JP Labuschagne, Deloitte Africa infrastructure & capital projects leader said. He added that global economic headwinds, low...
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), an international, independent, standards organisation, launched its new GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards for South Africa on Tuesday. South Africa is the third country to hold an event launching the new...
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) described the resignation of Brian Molefe as Eskom chief executive as a step towards cleansing the state-owned power utility, calling him a “Gupta appointee” for good measure, Africa News Agency reported. The...
Times remain tough for the consulting engineering industry, a recent study by the Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) has found. CESA’s bi-annual economic and capacity survey for the period January to June 2016 found that confidence levels...
South Africa’s multidisciplinary construction industry is under tremendous financial pressure, a recent study from Frost & Sullivan, an American market research and analysis firm, has found. The study focused on an analysis of ‘the South...
Cityspec is a mobile tool that is used to help improve basic service delivery in under resourced areas. The app allows users to log fault reports which gets sent to the system’s administration dashboard. Once reports are received, the...
Improved access to quality sanitation, while saving water is now possible in the Ndakana village in the Eastern Cape. An innovative technology was launched by the Department of Science and Technology on Saturday that consists of an off-grid...
Videos and photographs of Gauteng’s flash floods dominated television screens and social media sites last week. Unfortunately, the rainfall was not quite enough to provide the relief the country so desperately needs. The Department of Water and...
