While South Africa grapples with electricity challenges, the City of Johannesburg believes it has a solution that can help to keep the lights on. Pikitup, the City’s waste management company, says the five landfills it manages will by 2016 generate...
The roads infrastructure connecting Africa’s largest inland port – the City Deep Freight Hub – will undergo a major overhaul according to the City of Johannesburg. The Member of the Mayoral Committee for Transport, Christine Walters says the...
An initiative to create a quality urban public space for the bourgeoning community of Dunoon, in Cape Town, is progressing well. The City’s contractors are redeveloping a formal sports field and creating an inclusive recreational space. According...
End-of-life tyres are increasingly presenting waste management challenges owing to the large volumes disposed of annually. These waste tyres possess unique properties that can once again reused in a sustainable materials stream to supplement the...
The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality has managed to employ the majority of the students who received comprehensive bursaries from the local government institution on a full time basis, since a strategy to counter the loss of engineering skills was...
An advisory panel report on the socio-economic impact of the e-tolls in Gauteng has recommended that elements of the current e-toll system must be reviewed to address affordability, among others. “…the main recommendation of the panel is that...
With the increase in electricity demand, load shedding remains a reality for the near future for South Africa, says power utility Eskom. Speaking to the media on Thursday, Eskom CEO Tshediso Matona said the country had just about exhausted the...
The first batch of new diesel locomotives for the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA)Â arrived at the Cape Town harbour on Wednesday. The trains were met by Transport Minister Dipuo Peters who walked towards the Afro4002 loco and kissed...
Brick manufacturers are upbeat on prospects for 2015 following an increase in government infrastructural spending. Corobrik managing director Dirk Meyer says that added to infrastructural spending there has been a 15% increase in sales due to a...
