Illegal dumping sites in Diepsloot were singled out for a major cleanup when Pikitup’s five-month citywide Waste Minimisation Campaign entered its second week on Saturday March 5. Pikitup is the City of Johannesburg’s waste management entity. The...
The Passenger Rail Agency of SA says a new train manufacturing plant will save the struggling entity millions of rands. The R1-billion plant is expected to create some 1,500 jobs as well as boost the local economy. Source:Â eNCA Source...
Msunduzi municipal manager Mxolisi Nkosi was suspended on Friday following allegations of corruption on his part by the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) in terms of section 106 of the Local Government Municipal...
Most of Gauteng province’s R103.4bn budget over the next three years will be directed towards building roads, hospitals, clinics, schools and maintaining existing public property, Finance MEC Barbara Creecy said on Tuesday. A total of R41.6bn...
Construction of the Valhalla Park Housing Development, which will empower the City of Cape Town’s most vulnerable families with 777 subsidised homes, has kicked off. The contract for construction of the civil engineering services was recently...
A total of R6.1-million is to be ploughed into four inner city parks in the current financial year as part of the ongoing revitalisation and rejuvenation of the bustling and vibrant urban space. Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo Region F Manager...
Government has announced plans to upscale the revitalisation of local industrial parks to 20 locations. Chairing a media briefing of the Economic Sectors, Employment and Infrastructure Development cluster, Rural Development and Land Reform Minister...
Although the El Nino that started the drought in South Africa is showing signs of slowing down, the looming winter season will leave the country dry. Dr Dennis Dlamini, a hydrologist at the Department of Water and Sanitation, says water limitations...
The Mpumalanga government has set aside over R600 million to address water challenges in Bushbuckridge. Some villages in the Bushbuckridge area are without access to drinking water. Government’s alleged failure to provide clean drinking water...
Efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the energy sector could lead to greater pressure on water resources, increasing water use and thermal water pollution according to a new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters....
