The Africities Exhibition 2015 has officially opened in Sandton, north of Johannesburg. The three-day exhibition will focus on sustainable socio-economic transformation in Africa in the next 50 years. Johannesburg Mayor, Parks Tau, addressed the...
Residents of Refiloe Township near Cullinan in Pretoria East will be without water for a few days as the city of Tshwane does maintenance work on the pipeline system. Spokesperson Lindela Mashigo said the sanitation department would do work on the...
One of the areas north of Durban worst hit by the drought is likely to have a steady water supply all through the festive season, thanks to the use of recycled water. Sembcorp Siza Water, a municipal commissioned distributor of bulk water in the...
Local government and municipalities are very complex pieces of machinery, which need to be brought closer to the people. This is the view of Tahir Sema, spokesperson of the South African Local Government Association (SALGA). Speaking at the...
South Africa’s construction and engineering sector has taken such a beating that its index is now trading 69% lower than at the peak of the global economic crisis. According to a report by BDLive the gloomy picture, revealed in a South African...
The Water Research Commission (WRC) is hosting the second in a series of Dialogues on the current drought in South Africa in Pretoria on 27 November 2015. Following on from the first Dialogue on 6 November, which focused on identifying research...
President Jacob Zuma says government’s Back-to-Basics strategy has, since its introduction, become an integral part of local governance. Municipalities that have been supported through the Back-to-Basics Strategy were responding positively and...
Transnet has completed an R800 million upgrade of the City Deep Container Terminal in Johannesburg, the company said on Thursday. This is as the company steps up the drive to move rail-friendly cargo off the roads. According to Transnet, the...
Infrastructure development is crucial to industrialising the economy and creating employment during turbulent times, this is according to President Jacob Zuma. Delivering his annual address to the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) on Thursday,...
A South African engineering firm has effectively doubled the proportion of its total revenue derived from African projects from 10% to 20% over the past year, and expects this figure to grow to 25%. The strategy of adding value to infrastructure...
