An ongoing strike by more than 2 000 Chitungwiza Town council workers in Zimbabwe has resulted in the area becoming overwhelmed by uncollected waste. According to local reports, council workers downed tools after going for nearly a year without...
Burkina Faso will soon play host to the largest photovoltaic power station in Sub-Saharan Africa. The government of Burkina Faso has signed an investment support agreement with Windiga Energy, a Canadian-based independent renewable energy power...
The Green Economy in the South conference is currently underway at the University of Dodoma in Tanzania. Hosted by the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, the conference will critically examine different tools and approaches that...
Nine African nations have been chosen to receive new funding and operational support from the Climate Investment Fund’s (CIF) Scaling Up Renewable Energy in Low Income Countries Program (SREP). Benin, Ghana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Rwanda,...
Numsa has acknowledged the weak state of the global and local economy as it negotiates for what it calls “a living wage and a better life for [its] members.” “In South Africa we continue on the path of rapid deindustrialisation, with the greatest...
The stalemate between striking Numsa members and employers remains in place following further failed wage negotiations. SEIFSA’s increased offer rejected Employers represented by the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern...
Style & Craft Paving, which is celebrating its 26 year anniversary in 2014, was contracted to lay the paving at Dainfern Valley Estate. So far a total of 231 000 Cederberg PA pavers from Corobrik have been used in a Stretcher Bond pattern with...
Gauteng Premier David Makhura and MEC Nandi Mayathula-Khoza from the Gauteng Department of Infrastructure Development (GPDID) are scheduled to attend Infrastructure Africa 2014. Debating critical infrastructure The need for infrastructure...
Anglo American has announced its intention to sell its 50% interest in Lafarge Tarmac to Lafarge for a minimum value of £885 million (R16.2 billion) Anglo American has reached an agreement in principle for the sale for a minimum value of £885...
