Eskom has managed to secure a R5 billion loan from the Public Investment Corporation (PIC). In a statement released on Monday the PIC and the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) said that it had agreed to advance a R5 billion ridging facility...
Oral agreements, although theoretically legal, are often the cause of enormous problems in the construction and building industry and should be avoided. This is the view of the Uwe Putlitz, CEO of the Joint Building Contracts Committee (JBCC)....
Day zero is now also looming for the Eastern Cape’s Kouga region. Disadvantaged communities are already feeling the impact. Their main supply dam is at 9 percent. The majority of the three hundred thousand people in Hankey and Patensie areas...
By Patrick Dowling, WESSA: Western Cape Regional Membership Beyond the clamour around who’s to blame, conflicting scenario descriptions of day zero and its predicted date, individual and community responses and helpful tips, the drought, now...
The City of Cape Town has implemented a short-term management strategy for the Newlands Spring following complaints of congestion and conflict as residents scramble to collect water amid the City’s worst drought in history. The Newlands Spring has...
Volunteers that can donate time or goods to assist officials tasked with managing the Cape water crisis can now pledge their support through a platform hosted by the Water Institute of South Africa. The platform is a simple tool that allows...
Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs Barbara Thompson is calling on South Africans to get involved in the protection and conservation of wetlands in the country. Speaking ahead of the annual World Wetland day celebrations Thompson said wetlands...
The City of Cape Town has condemned the recent spate of attacks on its MyCiTi buses following stoning incidents along the N2 Express routes. Eight MyCiTi buses were attacked in Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain recently and the City believes these...
South African Airways (SAA) has taken the decision to cut down on the number of daily flights from Johannesburg to London from April 2018. The national carrier will be replacing the double daily service operating on the United Kingdom route with a...
