The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality will be implementing a pilot project for non-grid solar home systems which means the installation of green electricity at shacks, making it one of the first local authorities in the country to do so. Standing...
The Ivory Park Gravel Roads Improvement Project is in full swing, according to the City of Johannesburg. The City together with the Johannesburg Roads Agency have made R47.7 million available for the upgrading of 8.3 kilometres of roads – from...
A new report by the World Bank Group has revealed that Climate change impacts, such as extreme heat events, may now be unavoidable because the Earth’s atmospheric system is locked into warming close to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels by...
The eThekwini Municipality is planning a new look for the Bluff beaches and it hosted public meetings in the South Durban Basin this week to discuss a proposed plan to upgrade. According to the municipality the draft plan, presented to the public,...
The Executive Mayor Of Oudtshoorn ,Aldm Gordon April will be leading a team of six delegates from the Oudtshoorn Municipality to the Netherlands in the first week of December 2014, on an official trip that forms part of the process for the...
The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality budgeted R20 million for the electrification of informal settlements and state subsidised houses for the current financial year (2014/2015). This is part of the realisation of the Nelson Mandela Bay...
The AMD debate has raged on for a decade now, often manifesting as a series of messy public spats in which attempts have been made to apportion blame and seek redress by well-meaning activists. Central to this debate have been images of chaos,...
Leading South African cement supplier, PPC was awarded Supplier of the Year in the Hardware & Building Materials category at the recent Kaap Agri Awards held in Cape Town. The awards are held annually to distinguish top performing suppliers....
A recent study by the Californian government determined that cost of preventing plastic litter from entering the ocean is as high as USD428 million per year. Activities that contribute to the cost include street sweeping, storm drain maintenance...
Poor people living in rural areas are the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, despite having contributed least to its causes. This is according to Magezi Mhlanga, ‎Chief Town and Regional Planner: Environmental Planning from the...
