The Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa and LAWTIG have released new dates for their Landfill 2019. The new dates and venue are as follows: Date: Wed 06 and Thurs 07 November 2019 Venue: The River Club....
Tshwane residents have been warned that waste collection service will be disrupted due to a strike by members of South African Civil Servants Union (SACSU). The strike action started on which started on Tuesday. Waste management workers protested...
BASF and Jaguar Land Rover are trialing a new innovative recycling process which converts plastic waste into premium grade material, which could feature on JLR’s future vehicles. The ChemCycling process, up-cycles domestic waste pyrolysis oil...
More than 12 tonnes of illegal electrical cables were disconnected and confiscated during the Operation O kae Molao at Vusumuzi Section in Tembisa, to root out illegal electricity connections. Illegal electricity connections and tempering have...
The 2019 SME Conditions Survey has once again confirmed the state of the South African building and construction industry. Building confidence ticked down from 33 to 30, as building activity slowed even further. Ntando Skosana, Project Manager for...
Development Bank of Southern Africa has called on young people to submit ideas which will help solve South Africa’s infrastructure challenges. The bank has launched a competition that urges the youth to submit suggestions relating to addressing...
The South African government has allocated an extra R59 billion to state-owned power utility Eskom over the next two years so it can service its debt. Eskom, which supplies more than 90% of the country’s electricity, fails to generate sufficient...
According to the province’s MECs for Human Settlements and infrastructure development, South Africa has a housing backlog of R2 million and R1 million of that is in Gauteng. He says that this is due to budget and resource limitations,...
The local property development sector, particularly the Cape Town-based construction industry is disintegrating, due to the City’s slow tendering and procurement process. Towards the end of 2018, the Western Cape Property Development Forum (WCPDF)...
