A European multinational energy supply corporation has begun construction of a new head office in Waterfall City, Midrand. According to a press release submitted by Schneider Electric, this construction follows the opening of a 12 000 square meter...
R840 million will be allocated to historically disadvantaged institutions (HDIs) from the development grant over the next two financial years. This emerged during a meeting in Parliament on Wednesday, where the Portfolio Committee on Higher...
The Coega Development Corporation (CDC), already a leading Industrial Development Zone (IDZ) in South Africa, now aims to break new ground in environmental management within IDZs by developing an air dispersion model, it announced recently. Using...
KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta), Nomusa Dube-Ncube, has welcomed the increased infrastructure budget allocations for municipalities and the fact that a significant share will go to KZN. “As KZN Cogta, we...
The City of Cape Town is replacing metal, cast-iron manhole covers, with plastic and ductile-iron covers – potentially saving the ratepayer millions of rands each year. Manholes in new developments across the city are now fitted with hinged...
The North West government has demolished 28 of 71 shoddily built houses in Huhudi township near Vryburg. This exercise follows the failure by a contractor to meet the required building standard of low cost houses, especially the quality of the...
The Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality (EMM) is calling all on stakeholders and environmental enthusiasts participate in this year’s review process of the Air Quality Management Plan (AQMP). EMM is an industrial hub with multiple manufacturing...
The Eastern Cape Department of Human Settlements has received an additional R233 million to help increase productivity on its housing projects. The additional fund, allocated by the national Department of Human Settlements, was a result of the...
Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini says Phase 3 of the Expanded Public Work Programme (EPWP) Social Sector must aim high and work harder towards increasing the current set targets for work opportunities. Addressing the EPWP conference in...
The Portfolio Committee on Energy held a meeting earlier this week where it made the future of nuclear energy in South Africa  quite clear. Briefing his counterparts from  the Norwegian Standing Committee on Energy and Environmental Affairs,...
