The City of Cape Town’s Disaster Risk Management Centre recently conducted an exercise to test the vehicle drive-through configuration of the City’s water collection points. Despite Day Zero being deferred the municipality has continued with its...
Learners at Grayston Preparatory School recently saw the concept of reduce, reuse, recycle in action after they received a donation of five recycled chandeliers. The chandeliers, which are shaped into exquisite balls of white flowers, are made from...
The Department of Environmental Affairs recently launched a state-of-the-art Weather Radar aimed at developing infrastructure and building capacity to improve rainfall estimation from multiple platforms that will be freely accessible to the...
A group of international researchers have found new methods to analyse and separate harmful and critical metals from environmental samples and electronic equipment in order to promote the circular economy. The research group, which is from the...
Anton Bredell, the Western Cape MEC for local government, environmental affairs, and development planning, recently stated that a waste crisis was imminent if the country did not start thinking differently. According to Bredell, the only way to...
The Executive Committee of the eThekwini Municipality have tabled a debt settlement plan to recover the substantial amount of money owed by the Department of Human Settlements to Council. According to the report the project debt on various housing...
South Africa now boasts the world’s largest oxygen production plant. Situated at the petrochemical company Sasol in Secunda, Mpumalanga.The 6 billion rand project will reduce annual electricity consumption by 20 percent. Mpumalanga stands to...
The Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA) has confirmed that construction on the Watt Interchange project is scheduled to start in April 2018. The project, which is expected to cost approximately R260 million, will start with the construction of...
Eskom has overspent an estimated R286 billion on primary energy costs over the past seven years. This is according to the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) as it objects to Eskom’s Regulatory Clearing Account (RCA) applications to the National...
