Zimbabwe is getting a 300 MW energy boost from Eskom, as the country suffers a power crunch amid reduced capacity caused by falling water levels at the Kariba dam. This comes as China has reportedly agreed to release US$1.2billion for the...
The Department of Public Works (DPW) is continuing to invest in the transformation of the built environement by awarding bursaries to 2015 matriculants interested in careers in the built industry. Public Works Minister Thulas Nxesi, will award 40...
An engineer at the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital in Gauteng is in hot water, following a power outage at the hospital. The hospital’s generators gave in. Four neonatal babies were removed from the hospital due to the power failure. Gauteng Health...
A new waterless toilet soon to be trialled in Africa may not start a feminist revolution, but it will go a long way to addressing some urgent and practical needs of women and girls – and for all the international conferences and commitments...
As the country continues to battle the worst drought in some provinces around the country, many South Africans are coming up with innovative ways to bring relief to those affected. In the past few days, two of these initiatives, Operation Hydrate...
Cape Town intensified water restrictions as South Africa’s worst drought in more than two decades left the city’s dam levels lower than normal. Users are required to cut water consumption by 20% from 10%, the City of Cape Town municipality said in...
As the country battles the worst drought in over two decades, Operation Hydrate says some communities in the Free State have resorted to drinking sewage water. The NGO, together with Mango Airlines, Shoprite and Proudly South African, aims to...
Most of the reservoirs in Polokwane, Limpopo are empty and the water levels at the remaining few are running critically low, the municipality said on Saturday. “The shortage is caused by rapid increase in consumption during the heat wave,”...
At the recent U.N. climate change conference in Paris 40,000 people were fed daily creating more than a tonne of food waste – but that waste wasn’t wasted. At a plant about 30 kilometers south of the French capital, those plate scraps were...
