Despite being a water-scarce country, South Africa faces extremely high levels of water wastage with confirmation of losses at municipalities estimated to be close to 50%. The government now warns in a report that unless the country starts saving...
Last week, Marlboro residents barricaded roads and burnt tyres in protest against illegal evictions in the area. In the last two months, the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) has cracked down on a community of shack dwellers in...
The eThekwini municipality’s 2010/2011 budget performance report revealed that it had underspent by about R2 billion, according to a report last Thursday. The budget report also showed that the municipality recently borrowed R1 billion to...
The Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality has announced that the deployment of energy efficient technology has started paying off for the metro. Several programmes have been put in place and retrofitting or the addition of new technologies, has seen...