The Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA) has doubled its capital expenditure while receiving a clean financial bill of health from the Auditor-General in the latest financial year. At the same time, the agency raised its black empowerment share of...
Africa’s oil and gas potential is expected to grow significantly over the next two decades. Africa is endowed with natural resources that are changing the global energy landscape with six of the top 10 global discoveries in the oil and gas sector...
The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality is extending the deadline for a minor works tender aimed at procuring services such as kerbing, road works and the maintenance of stormwater drains among others. According to the municipality this decision was...
The Water Research Commission (WRC) of South Africa visited India last week to formalise a needs-based knowledge partnership for collaborative research, knowledge exchange, dissemination and capacity building, with the Centre for Science and...
The City of Cape Town has spent nearly R35 million on walkways and cycle lanes in Kuils River, Blackheath and Eerste River. This is in addition to the walkway and cycle lane in Kraaifontein, where Transport for Cape Town (TCT), the City’s...
More water is on its way for drought hit South Africans. Thanks to Operation Hydrate, 1.5 million litres of water were dispatched on Friday,as part of drought relief operations. The water will be distributed in the northern parts of KwaZulu natal,...
To assist municipalities in dealing with the current drought, the Department of Water and Sanitation, Mpumalanga Provincial Office is currently drilling, equipping and refurbishing boreholes as part of its interventions. Chief Albert Luthuli Local...
The Vryheid Herald says it can confirm that fetid, black clumps floating in the Klipfontein dam are definitely faeces. According to the newspaper, a sample sent to the laboratory for testing revealed 5880 cholera forming units per 100ml of water....
Public hearings into Eskom’s controversial application to NERSA to hike electricity tariffs by a hefty 16 and half percent this year are continuing in Johannesburg today. Representatives from the business community have lined up to slam the...
Nomzamo, a small township just outside of Strand in the Western Cape, can now boast a Public Transport Facility (PTF) that gives priority to the community’s needs. The Nomzamo community hall and business centre were built some 12 years ago. At that...
