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Infrastructure News Round-Up | 28 May 2021

Infrastructure News Round-Up brings you all the latest news making headlines in infrastructure, water and sanitation, and waste management, in just 90 seconds. In our headlines today: DWS condemns vandalism of water infrastructure World’s first concept for rechargeable cement-based batteries South African construction sites are hotbeds for organised...

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Jun 7, 2018 | Multimedia

DISCUSSION: World Environment Day

People around the world, including governments, have been requested to answer the call to – beat plastic pollution – this as we mark World Environment Day. It is estimated that 100-thousand marine animals are killed by plastics each...

Jun 6, 2018 | Multimedia

Southern Cape: Launch of SA’s first Zero Water operation, Mossel Bay

Minister of Water and Sanitation, Gugile Nkwinti attended the launch of the country’s first Zero Water operation at Nestles dairy factory in Mossel Bay in the Southern Cape today. The launch marks the commemoration of the 2018 world...

May 30, 2018 | Multimedia

DISCUSSION: Launch of Municipal Barometer web portal

The Auditor General’s report highlighted the dysfunctionality within municipalities. Only 7 percent received clean audits. Well, the South Africa Local Government Association has launched a Municipal Barometer web portal which tracks a...

May 29, 2018 | Multimedia

Gugile Nkwinti working on hard to fix Dept. of Water and Sanitation

Minister of Water and Sanitation Gugile Nkwinti described the department he’s inherited as ‘a mess’. Appearing before the Parliamentary oversite committee, he welcomed the inquiry into the financial state of his department....

May 24, 2018 | Multimedia

Environmental crime is estimated at over $200 billion

Environmental crime is estimated at over 200 billion US Dollars. That’s 10 000 times more than the amount spent combating it. The Department of Environmental Affairs is meeting Interpol’s Pollution Crime Working Group and Environmental...

May 22, 2018 | Multimedia

Kimberley’s Sol Plaatjie municipality battles sewage problems

The office of the Public Protector in the Northern Cape has stepped in to assist communities facing numerous sewage problems in the Kimberley area. The Sol Plaatje municipality has been battling to resolve it for years. The Public Protector says...

May 17, 2018 | Multimedia

Charging phones with food waste

It may look like any other mobile phone-charging station, but this locker-like system at the corner of the National University of Singapore’s Raffles Hall is actually powered by food waste. Source: The Straits Times Singapore (Samantha Boh,...

May 16, 2018 | Multimedia

Public Enterprises is prepared to assist in the State Capture inquiry: Gordhan

Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan says his department is preparing a wholesale collation of information to assist the Justice Zondo State Capture Commission of Inquiry. He made the announcement at his pre-budget vote media briefing in...

May 15, 2018 | Multimedia

Kenya’s Chief Prosecutor wants investigation into Nakuru county dam burst

Kenya’s Chief Prosecutor has ordered police to investigate a dam burst in a commercial farm in Nakuru county, that left at least 45 people dead and hundreds homeless. Heavy rains in Kenya, have hampered rescue and recovery efforts. Several...

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