The City of Cape Town is replacing metal, cast-iron manhole covers, with plastic and ductile-iron covers – potentially saving the ratepayer millions of rands each year. Manholes in new developments across the city are now fitted with hinged...
The North West government has demolished 28 of 71 shoddily built houses in Huhudi township near Vryburg. This exercise follows the failure by a contractor to meet the required building standard of low cost houses, especially the quality of the...
The Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality (EMM) is calling all on stakeholders and environmental enthusiasts participate in this year’s review process of the Air Quality Management Plan (AQMP). EMM is an industrial hub with multiple manufacturing...
The Eastern Cape Department of Human Settlements has received an additional R233 million to help increase productivity on its housing projects. The additional fund, allocated by the national Department of Human Settlements, was a result of the...
Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini says Phase 3 of the Expanded Public Work Programme (EPWP) Social Sector must aim high and work harder towards increasing the current set targets for work opportunities. Addressing the EPWP conference in...
The Portfolio Committee on Energy held a meeting earlier this week where it made the future of nuclear energy in South Africa  quite clear. Briefing his counterparts from  the Norwegian Standing Committee on Energy and Environmental Affairs,...
Protesters stand outside parliament every Wednesday to say that Nuclear Energy is not the future of South Africa. They believe the country does not have money to waste on building nuclear energy plants and we should utilise renewable energy sources...
A multi-million rand investment in a rubber crumb manufacturing plant in Hammarsdale will take rubber tyre recycling to a whole new level in KwaZulu-Natal. Dr Mehran Zarrebini, head of British investment group PFE International which owns Van Dyck...
Community-based environmental education facilitators are being equipped with the knowledge and skills to positively transform their communities, as part of the City of Johannesburg’s commitment to create a sustainable green culture. About 50...
