People living in informal settlements in Kenya will soon have access to safe, hygienic sanitation services as a sanitation solutions company has committed to increasing its operations in the country. By making this commitment they have joined the...
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has tightened the deadline on the construction of the new Suez Canal project. The project, which will cost US$4 billion, involves digging a 72-kilometre canal alongside the original channel in order to...
Low pressure compressed air is widely used for applications such as waste water aeration at treatment plants; dilute phase pneumatic conveying of dry powders and flue-gas desulphurisation of emission stacks. “The blower market for small volume...
The Giyani Water Treatment Works has started supplying clean, running water to 55 villages in Mopani District Municipality in Limpopo. The water plant was opened by President Jacob Zuma during his monitoring visit to Giyani in Limpopo to assess the...
Gauteng MEC for Roads and Transport, Ismail Vadi, confirmed the severe structural damage to the East Road Bridge, which cuts across the N12 freeway near Eldorado Park, and declared it is a serious risk to motorists. The East Road overhead bridge...
The German government has committed R70 million towards the second phase of the Non-Motorised Transport (NMT) programme. The programme which is being implemented by the Department of Environmental Affairs and the Federal Republic of Germany...
Gauteng MEC for Infrastructure Development Nandi Mayathula-Khoza will take action to set aside an R88.8-million tender, which was awarded to a construction company through a flawed appointment process. The tender was awarded to a construction...
The planned water outage and maintenance on the raw water bulk pipeline between Jericho pump station and Kriel power station in Mpumalanga was successfully completed by the Department of Water and Sanitation on Friday. The pipeline, which is over...
By Liesl Frankson Households around the country were left in the dark on Sunday when Eskom implemented load shedding to protect South Africa’s power grid from a complete blackout. This followed the collapse of Silo 20 at the Majuba Powers Station...
BRICS countries should continue to use innovation as a key driver for economic growth – this is the view of Minister in the Presidency, Jeff Radebe. “Innovation is a powerful engine for development and for addressing social and global challenges,”...