Alastair Currie, editor of IMIESA magazine, chats to Arno van der Merwe, CEO and executive director at Mercedes Benz South Africa at the 80th IMESA conference in East London. Van der Merwe discusses the automaker’s 67 years of manufacturing in East...
SAFCEC Vice President and Chairperson of the Human Resources Committee, Werner Jerling, discusses SAFCEC’s role in creating a stable labour relations environment with Danielle Petterson, Senior Journalist: IMIESA. Jerling emphasises a mature and...
Founder of the All Women Recycling programme, Lynn Worsley, discusses how plastic bottles are upcycled using recycled plastic bottles which they buy from dumps. “I try to create a value chain where the entire community benefits,”...
Public review and comment is being encouraged by the Drakenstein Municipality for the first proposed municipal waste-to-energy plant in South Africa. Possible sites Currently, the municipality has earmarked three possible sites for the project: a...
Two people were killed after a large waste removal truck overturned on Soutpansberg Road in Kempton Park on Saturday, according to paramedics in a News24 report. ER24 spokesperson Werner Vermaak said “One person from the truck was found lying...
The Department of Environmental Affairs’ (DEA) Environmental Management Inspectorate, commonly known as the Green Scorpions, initiated a criminal investigation with the execution of a search and seizure warrant at the Shongweni landfill site on 12...
A new report compiled by non-profits Pure Earth and Green Cross Switzerland on 25 October this year highlights the top ten polluting industries in developing countries that put 32 million people at risk. Titled, The World’s Worst Pollution Problems...
Allyson Lawless, Managing Director of SAICE Professional Development and Projects, presented her latest Numbers and needs in local government analysis at the recent IMESA Conference in East London. The report highlights the increasing gap in the...
In a first for South Africa, the public will now be able to access free, reliable, user-friendly financial information for every single municipality in South Africa. National Treasury launched “Municipal Money”, an open local government budget data...
Unit 3 of the Ingula Pumped Storage Scheme, located near Van Reenen in KwaZulu-Natal, was synchronised to the national grid on Saturday. Eskom said that this was the final energy unit that needed to be synchronised. The power utility explained the...
