Water sector stakeholders from Africa gathered at the Water Integrity Summit in Lusaka, Zambia to energise local African relationships in the water community and to take resolute action against corruption at political levels. The Water Integrity...
The National Treasury has published the Carbon Offsets Paper for public comment. The paper outlines proposals for a carbon offset scheme that will enable businesses to lower their carbon tax liability and make investments that will reduce...
Having begun their partnership in 2011, Kaytech is pleased to announce they have entrenched their relationship again with PETCO as a Category A partner, increasing the economically viable collection and recycling of post-consumer PET in South...
The engineering principles for creating ‘green’ buildings are both well understood and have been widely applied. Where to now? “We have earned our ‘Stars’ in the art of green design, literally, and while innovation will continue to make further...
South African Desmond D’Sa received a Goldman Environmental Prize for successfully shutting down a toxic waste dump in south Durban. In 1990, a large waste management company Wastemanopened a landfill to accommodate hazardous waste from nearby...
Global greenhouse gas emissions have risen to unprecedented levels despite the increasing number of policies to reduce climate change. According to an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, emissions increased more rapidly between...
Foreign transport companies have been experiencing a problem with SANRAL whilst operating their trucks on the Gauteng Freeway system. Barney Curtis, Executive Director at FESARTA (Federation of East and Southern African Road Transport Associations)...
Several One Stop Border Posts (OSBP) in East Africa are in the final phases of construction. The OSBP is in operation on the Tanzanian side of the Holili and Taveta border between Tanzania and Kenya. It is expected that the Taveta border post in...
A year-on-year increase of 18.3 percent in the amount of cargo handled in the port sector and a 21.2 percent in the rail segment has been experienced by the Mozambican state port and rail manager Portos e Caminhos de Ferro de Moçambique (CFM) in...
