The Mount Pleasant-based organisation, Water Our Thirsty World, has been quite busy over the last couple of months. Water Our Thirsty World is focused on delivering chlorination systems to countries that lie in the ’10/40 Window’, which...
More than 100 people in the Zimbabwean capital Harare and Chitungwiza, a dormitory town 35km southeast of the city, have contracted typhoid this month, and the dilapidated water and sanitation systems are again being blamed for another round of...
This timelapse film shows the construction of the Olympic and Paralympic village in east London for the 2012 Games. The village has 17,320 beds and provides each athlete with 16 square metres (170 sq ft) of floor space. After the Games, the village...
A reliable and efficient mobile crushing plant is a sum of several factors working together smoothly, which is well illustrated on Metso Mobile’s latest and most advanced track-mounted jaw crusher plant, the Lokotrack LT120. Significantly, the...
Reacting to the Auditor General’s (AG) report on local government last Tuesday, the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) said it painted a grim picture of incompetence, maladministration and waste of public money. “Cosatu demands that there must be...
Growing prosperity and urbanisation could double the volume of municipal solid waste annually by 2025, challenging environmental and public health management in the world’s cities, according to new research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute...
The report for 2010-2011 provides bleak insight into financial mismanagement and widespread lack of accountability by local government officials. Auditor-general Terence Nombembe said a mere 13 – or 5% – of the 283 municipalities in the...
Three months of negotiations and a fourth round of bargaining has borne fruit for municipal workers unions, which were on Friday due to sign a deal with the South African Local Government Association (Salga) in Pretoria, securing a 6.5% wage...
The South African Local Government Association (Salga) says municipalities are losing billions of rand in revenue due to electricity theft. The organisation has been unable to quantify the exact figure, but it says businesses in some municipalities...
