Spending performance by state-owned entities on infrastructure projects has improved despite tight fiscal conditions. This is according to the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) which tabled its Annual Submission for the Division of Revenue in...
The SADC Water Week initiative, which aims to gather input towards the formulation of the fourth phase of the Regional Water Programme, moves to Mauritius from the 3 to 5 June 2015. The SADC Water Division is holding Water Weeks in the 14 SADC...
The Department of Water and Sanitation successfully launched an Interim Sanitation Solution in Khayelitsha. Minister of water and Sanitation Nomvula Mokonyane officially handed the project called the Kayaloo Ablution Facility to the people of...
The World Bank recently approved funding to address erosion related challenges in Nigeria’s Edo State. As part of the Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project (NEWMAP), an 8-year multi-sectoral programme that aims to restore degraded lands...
The Mahikeng Provincial Hospital in the North West, is on the verge of collapse. Its unable to provide surgical operations. The equipment here has not been serviced for three years and there is also a dire shortage of medicines. Government says it...
An incentive scheme aims to motivate people to recycle and reuse their waste by rewarding these actions with either a community or individual reward. The UK Government launched its Recycling Rewards and Recognitions fund in 2011, with up to £2...
Our country needs a water and sanitation revolution. This is was the conclusion of the debate on the Department of Water and Sanitation’s budget in Parliament last week, where Minister Nomvula Mokanyane called for urgent changes in the way...
The City of Johannesburg is replacing cast iron and steel manhole covers with non-metal products to combat vandalism and theft, which costs the city millions of rands every year. This was confirmed by Johannesburg Member of the Mayoral Committee...
Low-cost housing and infrastructure development received the lion’s share of the eThekwini Municipality’s, R39.1 billion pro-poor, budget for the 2015/16 financial. The budget tabled by Mayor James Nxumalo last week saw R6.1 billion going to the...
