The economist Thomas Sowell said there are no solutions in politics, only trade-offs. This statement cannot be more true in South Africa, where service delivery and infrastructure investment are the story of trade-offs between retaining political...
South Africa generates 2.4 million tons of plastic waste every year, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). This means that every South African contributes about 41kgs of plastic waste per year and about 14% is recycled. The South...
While the iLembe District Municipality has developed plans to improve waste management, there are significant challenges around disposal of waste electronic and electrical equipment (WEEE) in the district, writes Paul Jones, Director of Lumec and...
The annual cost of copper and scrap metal theft to the economy was estimated at about R47bn a year, and has amplified both loadshedding and the disruption of freight and passenger rail services. This is according to the Minister of Trade, Industry...
