Eastern Cape’s dry emergency water tanks
Some Eastern Cape villages have received the emergency tanks promised by national government but the tanks are empty. Source:...
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Free State’s Senekal residents vandalise water infrastructure
Vandals in the eastern Free State town of Senekal have hit the town where it hurts the most, its water infrastructure. In a series of recent incidents, vandals have damaged boreholes and water tanks, and stolen parts from the town’s pump...
An engineer at the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital in hot water
An engineer at the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital in Gauteng is in hot water, following a power outage at the hospital. The hospital’s generators gave in. Four neonatal babies were removed from the hospital due to the power failure. Gauteng Health...
Operation Hydrate, Project Hope Grass bring relief to drought victims
As the country continues to battle the worst drought in some provinces around the country, many South Africans are coming up with innovative ways to bring relief to those affected. In the past few days, two of these initiatives, Operation Hydrate...
China to fast track infrastructure development in Africa
China plans to fast track massive infrastructure development in Africa. The Chinese believe that infrastructure holds the key to unlocking Africa’s full economic potential. Chinese president, Xi Jing-Ping, has pledged over 60 billion US...
A KZN community is fighting to stop proposed fracking in the area
The community of Howick in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands is up in arms. They’re fighting to stop proposed fracking in the area. Rhino Gas and Exploration wants to extract natural gas and is targeting more than 1200 farms across KwaZulu-Natal....
Walkabout | Africities Transformation Exhibit
The seventh Africities Summit is currently underway in Johannesburg and is attended by local government delegates, NGOS, organisations and more. Vincent Truter the curator of the Transformation exhibit for the South African Cities Network gives...
Tau calls on the summit to enhance local government’s role in Africa
The Africities Exhibition 2015 has officially opened in Sandton, north of Johannesburg. The three-day exhibition will focus on sustainable socio-economic transformation in Africa in the next 50 years. Johannesburg Mayor, Parks Tau, addressed the...
How classic game Tetris saved Eskom
In a bid to curb load shedding a chart a brighter course for Eskom and the country as whole Brian Molefe, Eskom Group CEO, wanted to understand power plant maintenance planning. A little innovation and old school video game inspiration has seen...
UN SG’s Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation releases its report
An elite UN panel has warned that current water and sanitation infrastructure requires a major overhaul if the world is to meet related objectives in the post-2015 agenda. The Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation –...