World Wetlands Day, which takes place on 2 February each year, aims to raise awareness about the importance of wetlands in ecosystems. As urban development expands, many wetlands now fall within urbanised or semi-urbanised areas, as is the case...
The City of Cape Town’s Kraaifontein Waste Management Facility has received an award for being one of the most outstanding civil engineering achievements of 2011/12 at the recent South African Institution of Civil Engineering Awards. The R230...
Picture: The internal courtyard showing mosaicwork on concrete The City of Cape Town Human Settlement contact office in Manenberg has recently been awarded a four-star Green Star SA rating – the first fully constructed local municipal building in...
Picture: Corne Oberholzer is part of the Deloitte Local Government team The poor state of municipal finances is now a well-documented phenomenon. In the 2010/2011 financial year for example, the Auditor General of South Africa (AGSA) found that...
