South Africa is set to see new infrastructure projects funded with R23.7 billion from the Development Bank of Southern Africa, the bank said on Monday. The bank approved a total of R27.5bn, of which 86.3% was dedicated to South Africa for...
South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) CEO Nazir Alli has warned of the potential financial consequences of failing to properly maintain and develop infrastructure, emphasising the importance of the role of state-owned enterprises in...
There have been a number of successes in improving public transport in the Eastern Cape, Transport MEC Thandiswa Marawu said in Humansdorp last Tuesday. “Despite all the doubts and concerns, the scholar transport programme was successfully...
Delays in the implementation of the country’s electricity master plan, the Integrated Resources Plan 2010 (IRP 2010), showed a lack of leadership and would place an economic recovery in jeopardy, say experts. Professors Ernst Uken and Philip Lloyd...
Durban and Cape Town residents will have to start looking seriously at drinking recycled water from the local sewage works within the next few years as water supplies are running out and there is not enough time to build big new dams. Gauteng would...
Eskom has declined to comment on a news report that it would ask the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) to almost double electricity prices over the next five years. “We are busy finalising our application and will be...
Vela VKE, a part of the SMEC Group, currently forms part of Mokolo Crocodile Consultants (MCC), a joint venture between five consulting engineering firms established to implement the R15 billion Mokolo Crocodile River (West) Water Augmentation...
Left: James Kamau enjoying a ReSource read at his stand. Mfangano Solutions provides options and equipment for recycling, including the baling of scrap tyres. Right: Janette Kruger and Zimasa Velaphi from Collect-a-Can said that the conference...
Frances Saliwa says she “wants to make waste nice”. At 67, she has lived in the Eastern Cape all her life and says she wants to make things. She gets hold of old shoes and revamps them using banana leaves. She also makes bags, shorts, jackets, hats...
