The Northern Cape will soon be home to another Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plant. This comes after the Department of Energy (DOE) awarded preferred bidder status for a 100MW CSP project to a consortium led by SolarReserve, a global developer of...
The N3 Toll Concession (N3TC) road will undergo a R1 billion upgrade over the next three years. News of the N3 upgrade comes as Transport Minister Dipuo Peters identified Kwazulu Natal as having the most dangerous roads in the country. Construction...
Eskom has begun implementing stage one load shedding, it announced on Twitter on Friday. A tweet sent from the power utilities media account read “Eskom has started load shedding in stage 1 as of 11:05.” Eskom spokesperson Khulu Phasiwe...
It is feared the water in Carolina is contaminated again. The state of the tap water is cause for concern among the locals. Heavy rainfall is believed to have led to the collapse of the water system in the area. The latest developments have forced...
Plastic, paper, and glass waste is packaging waste that is regarded as general waste. It therefore falls under Municipal duties and is disposed of in general landfill site mostly run by Municipalities. Municipal waste is currently the focus of...
Experts believe the merging of South Africa’s two largest cement producers —PPC and Afrisam —does not make Business sense. Following a SENS announcement, in December, on a non-binding merger proposal from the AfriSam group to PPC, many industry...
The completion date for the Mount Coffee Hydro Power Project in Liberia has been extended to 2016 as a result of the deadly Ebola virus. According to a report by The Inquirer Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf explained that every project in...
When dams are built they have an impact not only on the flow of water in the river, but also on the people who live downstream and in the surrounding ecosystems. By placing data from close to 6 500 existing large dams on a highly precise map of the...
Construction has started on a new Chinese-financed R84bn city in Modderfontein, Gauteng. According to a report by The Star, work on the first set of 300 residential units and some of the roads is already under way. Chinese firm Shanghai Zendai...
