The KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Nomusa Dube-Ncube, has welcomed an additional R24 million from the National Disaster Management Centre to be used for drought relief in the province’s long-suffering...
Eskom says it has notified all parties who are likely to be adversely affected as the company contemplates interrupting bulk electricity supply to the top 20 defaulting municipalities across the country from 5 June 2015. As at 31 March 2015, the...
The water levels in nearly all of Namibia’s major dams are significantly lower now than they were during the same period last year. According to the weekly dam bulletin released by NamWater earlier this week, only two of the country’s...
Environmental Affairs Deputy Minister Barbara Thomson recently launched environmental protection and infrastructure programmes in Ga-Segonyana Local Municipality in the Northern Cape. Speaking at the launch, which forms part of the National Imbizo...
The latest international waste and recycling expertise and technology will be on show at the newly-launched exhibition, Waste and Recycling Africa 2015. “We partnered with a major Italian exhibitions company – Rimini Fiera – to bring the latest...
A new R250 million water treatment plant at the Matla coal mine in Mpumalanga is set to reduce the safety risk posed by large quantities of water that have filled mined-out underground cavities while simultaneously benefiting the environment and...
A new R30 million cleanroom facility has been unveiled at Mintek’s Nanotechnology Innovation Centre (NIC) in Johannesburg, which will allow for the manufacture of devices that permit the rapid diagnosis of illnesses such as malaria....
Global investments in renewable energy showed a major increase last year after two years of declines. Major expansion of solar installations in China and Japan and record investments in offshore wind projects in Europe helped propel global 2014...
Developers of proposed Konza City technopolis will use smart technology to build infrastructure under the project’s first phase. Chief executive officer of the Konza Technopolis Development Authority John Tanui said smart concepts will be...
