A further 500 Johannesburg families will move into their new homes in November 2015 as the multibillion rand Lufhereng housing development, the biggest integrated housing development initiative undertaken by the City of Johannesburg (COJ) to...
The Nigerian Federal Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with TBEA Co Ltd of China for the development of transmission lines and substations in Nigeria. Minister of State Power, Mohammed Wakil who signed on behalf of the...
Polyco the Polyolefin Recycling Company, has released the names of the six successful applicants who will be receiving total investment loans of R7 million over the next 6 months to fund their existing polyolefin recycling operations. The company’s...
Mining companies can play a key role in harnessing Africa’s abundant clean sources of energy to overcome the lack of electricity which affects at least one in three Africans, says a new World Bank report released at this year’s Mining Indaba, in...
Construction on the first 463 rental apartments as part of the City of Cape Town’s Langa Hostel Transformation Programme, is progressing well with most of the blocks having reached the third and fourth floor-stage of the build programme. The City...
Energy efficiency – the ‘hidden fuel’ – makes a contribution to the energy sector that is comparable to any supply-side resource. As a clean, domestic energy source it provides multiple benefits including improved energy security, economic...
Amid the intense debate surrounding the future of electricity supply in South Africa is there an answer to South Africa’s power resource conundrum? While many media and political commentators are quick to recommend overseas energy models for South...
Aurecon recently announced that it has become an Organisational Stakeholder of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the first major, multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy to do so. The GRI promotes the use of sustainability reporting as a...
A hoax statement alleging that Eskom notified government that the main grid could possibly crash and plunge the country into darkness for two weeks, has been dismissed by government. Government reached out to assured South Africans that the...
Construction of the $100 million Mall of Zimbabwe complex and surrounding developments in Borrowdale, Harare, is still on hold awaiting the Environmental Management Agency’s (EMA) approval permit. EMA has since carried out an Environmental...