Finance Minister Tito Mboweni tabled the annual 2020 Budget on Wednesday and infrastructure development took center stage. In the lead up to Mboweni asked South Africans to submit 2020 Budget tips. One South African who did was Funanani Sikhwivhilu...
Gauteng Premier David Makhura wants to raise R300-billion from the private sector to fund his plans for the province. He says the plans are not just for 5 years but for the next decade. Source:...
The city of Cape Town has launched an initiative to provide more compost bins for Cape suburbs. Seven different areas under the Subcouncil 1 will benefit from the new initiative and will assist residents in growing their own food and making better...
Twice as much food as previously estimated, or a third of all food available for human consumption, is wasted. Researchers from Wageningen University & Research have published a study that suggests consumers are wasting twice as much food as...
A dumping site in Salt River, Cape Town is unrecognizable these days after it has been turned into a community food garden. The founder of UK NGO, Progress London, says the life-changing project was made a reality because of funding from...
The Gauteng Provincial Government will in the next five years spend R60 billion on building and maintaining infrastructure. This will contribute to the creation of an additional 100 000 jobs, and facilitate the development of 50 black...
President Cyril Ramaphosa told Parliament last week that investors, including the finance industry, had responded enthusiastically to government’s renewed commitment to investing in infrastructure. Ramaphosa was replying to the...
There is a direct link between the stability of an economy and ongoing development – and currently the local construction and property industries are undeniably experiencing a lull due to reduced expenditure by government on large scale...
Billions of rand worth of government projects are on hold because of interference from the so-called construction mafia, according to the president’s head of investment infrastructure team, Kgosientso Ramokgopa. “Tens of billions of...
