Water Affairs has taken legal action against four mines that continued operating without water-use licences despite being told to comply, Deputy Water Affairs Minister Rejoice Mabudafhasi said on Wednesday. She told a media briefing at Parliament...
Water resources in South Africa are under “immense pressure” and the department wants to partner with communities to increase protection for wetlands and rivers. “We realise that our water resources are under immense pressure from...
In all the villages where the Comprehensive Rural Development Programme (CRDP) is currently being implemented, a sense of vibrancy is evident. According to the Rural Development and Land Reform Mid-Term Review, great strides have since been made...
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan tells Parliament the global economic environment remains weak, with risks relating in particular to the situation in the euro zone. South Africa is living through “dangerous times” and faces...
It is policy conference time for the ANC in June and the performance and role of local government will once again be up for discussion and solutions to its problems proposed. But previous interventions that were supposedly intended to cure local...
KEW Foundries has just completed a multi-million rand order for Gunric Valves, to cast seven valve body and disc sets for use by a large water utility. The biggest butterfly valves that this leading manufacturer of high quality valves has supplied...
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan says that the facts around the R20 billion Gauteng e-tolling saga will be presented to Parliament. Answering the debate on his budget vote speech on Friday, Gordhan accused opposition parties of just trying to score...
A pioneering development in Windsor East north of Johannesburg is offering affordable housing with a difference in the form of ‘container living’. The development initially caused a stir in the Windsor East suburb when steel shipping...
SANRAL CEO Nazir Alli has vehemently denied allegations of breaching transport policy and good governance made by John Clarke, a social worker, in a complaint he has filed with the public protector about Sanral’s dealings with bidding companies on...
