Last Wednesday, the Municipal Demarcation Board (MDB) released its State of Municipal Capacity Report (SMCR) for the 2010/11 financial year. The report is a bigger, beefier piece of analysis than previous editions of the SMCR, and it could be a...
Recently, the City of Cape Town partnered with University of Cape Town engineering students to find “creative ways to complete” the highways. “What we’re asking them to do is to assess whether [we should] complete them,...
At the end of June this year, the end of the 2011/2012 financial year, metro municipalities in South Africa were owed R46.1 billion. The amount for all municipalities in the country is R77.5 billion. Households remain the biggest culprit,...
While energy efficiency is a phrase on everyone’s lips these days, there is a general feeling that it is only big players in business and industry who can make any real difference in terms of reducing their energy consumption or even their reliance...
