New construction regulations announced this week require health and safety practitioners in the construction industry to register with the South African Council for the Project and Construction Management Professions (SACPCMP). Construction health...
Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu has proposed a two-year extension of the moratorium on new applications for onshore and offshore exploration rights and on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) gas-extraction technique. Earlier this month...
The number of informal waste pickers who collect garbage at municipal landfill sites and sell it for recycling is growing. Typically seen as a nuisance, government has previously attempted to ban the practice of waste picking. However, government...
The amount of untreated waste material containing uranium is growing after the 28% percent plunge in the gold price last year left many mine sites abandoned. Waste rock from hundreds of mines has been deposited around Johannesburg over the years,...
