World Environment Day (WED) 2015 will be celebrated on Friday 5 June all around the world. WED is the UN’s primary vehicle for promoting proactive international environmental awareness and . Over 40 years, WED has grown to be a broad, global...
South Africa has said that the hosting of the WEF Africa summit gives the country a chance to prove to the world that it remains a good investment destination. Department of Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa speaks about South...
The World Economic Forum’s 25th meeting on Africa is set to kick off in Cape Town, this morning. Themed “Then and Now: Reimagining Africa’s Future”, the meeting is the largest ever in the region. The meeting, which will end on Friday,...
It’s all systems go for the establishment of a Municipal Planning Tribunal in the City of Cape Town following an approval by the Council on Tuesday. In anticipation of the implementation of the Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act (SPLUMA),...
On June 3 this year, during the United Nations’ World Environment Week, Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture Rejoice Mabudafhasi was recognised with a special award from South Africa plastics industry representative body Plastics SA. Each year,...
A project which will pump raw sewage into the Vaal Dam is in an advanced stage. This is according to James Letuka, a DA member of the Free State provincial legislature, who spoke to News24. After receiving a complaint from local councillors, Letuka...
Beware – the Cubans are coming! That’s the clarion call from some of the most important umbrella engineering organisations in South Africa. By Dhesigen Naidoo We cannot escape the fact that South Africa is desperately short of engineering skills. A...
Beware – the Cubans are coming! That’s the clarion call from some of the most important umbrella engineering organisations in South Africa. By Dhesigen Naidoo One has to wonder if the response would be the same if the US Army Corps of Engineers...
COP 21, the UN Climate Change Conference due to be held in France in December has featured prominently at an international transport summit underway in Germany. International transport ministers gathered in the city of Leipzig, calling on...
The challenge of how to address Africa’s massive $100 billion annual infrastructure deficit is a step closer to being met, following a three-year project by the World Economic Forum aimed at promoting public-private cooperation and...
