Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA), strongly opposes the call by Minister Tokyo Sexwale to create a state-owned construction company. Speaking on behalf of their 470 member firms, employing in excess of 22 000 employees, president of CESA,...
S Richardson, Councilfor Geoscience Dolomitic rocks occur in the Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Gauteng, North West and Northern Cape provinces of South Africa. Dolomite is a soluble rock type that gives rise to sinkholes and dolines if given sufficient time...
SANRAL CEO Nazir Alli, who resigned last month, is to “stay put”, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said today. “There is no search for a new CEO,” Motlanthe said in Cape Town. Speaking in Cape Town at a media briefing on the controversial...
Surveyors have been around since the earliest recorded times and have undertaken small- to large-scale projects, some with the most extreme engineering of its day. SAGI epitomises this most noble profession and it’s constantly evolving dynamics in...
The social and financial condition of our planet is pointing to the need for something new and the time to take responsibility for our own future.While people in this country are struggling to keep their homes, their jobs, pay their power bill, and...
In his City of Tshwane (CoT) 2012 budget speech yesterday, Executive Mayor, Councillor Kgosientso Ramokgopa, announced the proposed tariff increases on waste, electricity, sanitation, water and property rates for the city. The tariff for solid...
Thousands of destitute people living on a Gauteng dump are being left by the provincial government to fend for themselves. This comes as the provincial department of local government and housing are refusing help to the residents on the landfill...
The Green Fund, the fifth fund of Anglo American’s enterprise development arm, Zimele, has had an overwhelmingly positive response, since it officially launched in November 2011. The Fund, which aims to empower and encourage entrepreneurs to...
SSI Engineers and Environmental Consultants were appointed by the Municipality of Maseru in Lesotho to design a sludge handling facility. The sludge waste originates from a textile manufacturer in Lesotho and had to be transported at huge costs to...
