The Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (Seifsa) has withdrawn its latest wage offer after Numsa publicly rejected it on Sunday. Seifsa offered Numsa a 10% increase in 2014, followed by a 9.5% in 2015 and 9% in 2016. It...
Minister of Water and Sanitation Nomvula Mokonyane says her department will provide a sustainable and holistic water value chain as guided by the National Development Plan, the ANC manifesto, and the second National Water Resource Strategy....
The country’s economy has battled to fully recover from the impact of the 2009 recession due to low productivity in the mining and manufacturing sectors. The sluggish growth has mainly been attributed to the bruising strikes in both sectors that...
South Africa was ranked 29th out of 40 countries in the Global Cleantech Innovation Index 2014. This report investigates the countries where entrepreneurial clean technology companies are most likely to emerge over the next 10 years. 40 countries...
The government of Ghana aims to increase urban water coverage from the current level to 85% by 2015 while taking rural water coverage to 76% in order to guarantee the availability of potable water for all Ghanaians. According to the Deputy Minister...
Sub-Saharan Africa still has a long way to go to meet the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets. Close to half of the global population without water resides in sub-Saharan Africa. The region has also made little progress on improving...
Sub-Saharan Africa lags behind most other regions in the world when it comes to access, management and supply of water. An increased demand for water has highlighted the urgent need for water utilities to expand and improve their generation and...
The South African Local Government Association (SALGA) recently released the Annual Report on Water Services as part of the Municipal Benchmarking Initiative (MBI) project initiated by SALGA in 2011 in partnership with the Water Research Commission...
The City of Tshwane has determined that water in Hammanskraal and Themba meets the required standards, following reports of diarrhoea. The City of Tshwane Water and Sanitation Division conducted tests at all area supply reservoirs and water network...
