An innovative sand pumping initiative between the eThekwini Municipality and Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has successfully reinstated sand along eroded sections of Durban’s popular Golden Mile. Portions of North Beach, Dairy Beach,...
The City of Cape Town recently upgraded its Council rental units (CRUs) in Atlantis and Hout Bay at a total cost of R9 million. The City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Assets and Facilities Management, Stuart Diamond says the extensive upgrade...
The City of Cape Town says its dam levels have increased slightly but so has water consumption. While there has been a slight increase in dam levels of 0.5% to an overall level of 21.4% as a result of some rainfall and lower evaporation rates the...
Power utility Eskom says it wants to use lessons learnt from the construction of its two mega power stations, Medupi and Kusile, to drive the country’s nuclear build programme. Speaking at the African Utility Week Conference in Cape Town on...
Minister of Energy Jeff Radebe says he would like the Jeff Radebe to contribute 25% of the targeted US$100 billion in investment that was announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa. Speaking at a media briefing ahead of the department’s Budget Vote...
Stakeholder inputs received by Parliament’s Standing Committee on Appropriations are calling for increased oversight of municipal spending. The stakeholders, who included the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the Social Justice Coalition...
Tracing its roots back to 1869, Ammann is one of the world’s most respected OEMs, leading on all continents with innovative solutions for the construction industry. IMIESA talks to Rocco Lehman, managing director of Ammann South Africa, about local...
It may look like any other mobile phone-charging station, but this locker-like system at the corner of the National University of Singapore’s Raffles Hall is actually powered by food waste. Source: The Straits Times Singapore (Samantha Boh,...
The South African plastics industry has hit a new high with a record 2.15 billion PET plastic bottles recycled in 2017. According to national industry body PETCO, this has set a post-consumer recycling rate of 65% which puts the country on par with...
