There’s a collapse in water service to KwaMhlanga in Mpumalanga. Residents have been without clean potable water for over 2 months. The village falls under the Thembisile Hani District Municipality, which receives water from Rand Water, City...
In this paper, we reflect on the experiences and challenges of a waste management planner in Cape Town between 2005 and 2013 through the lenses of systems dynamics and of stakeholder complexity. Since the new Waste Act was promulgated in 2008, a...
The safety and macro-economic benefits of the South African National Roads Agency Limited’s (SANRAL) endorsed De Beers Expressway project were highlighted at a media site visit that the roads agency hosted on last week. This video takes a look at...
The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality says it has been forced to expropriate two erven – its last trump card – to overcome the drawn out stalemate to acquire land for its R286 million Njoli Square Re-development, a project aimed as an economic boost...
Pikitup, the Waste Management Company of the City of Johannesburg, will be rolling out a free once a month bulky waste service (i.e. old mattresses, old furniture and fridges etc.) The company made the announcement this weekend when it officially...
Construction of R250 million worth of urgently needed bulk water infrastructure in the northern part of the eThekwini region is nearing completion. Ednick Msweli, newly appointed head of eThekwini Water and Sanitation (EWS) confirmed last week that...
R840 million will be allocated to historically disadvantaged institutions (HDIs) from the development grant over the next two financial years. This emerged during a meeting in Parliament on Wednesday, where the Portfolio Committee on Higher...
The Coega Development Corporation (CDC), already a leading Industrial Development Zone (IDZ) in South Africa, now aims to break new ground in environmental management within IDZs by developing an air dispersion model, it announced recently. Using...
KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta), Nomusa Dube-Ncube, has welcomed the increased infrastructure budget allocations for municipalities and the fact that a significant share will go to KZN. “As KZN Cogta, we...
