With South Africa celebrating Arbor Month in September, it is a good time to appreciate the role that all trees play in greening our cities, as a food source, in providing timber for construction, as fuel and, of course, as paper, packaging, and...
Despite a prolonged period of declining value due to Covid disruption and delays, the South African construction industry looks set for a reversal of fortune in 2022, with forecasts predicting a 9.1% real-term expansion. In the 2022 Construction...
Carbon emissions from construction sites are a major contributor to global warming, largely owing to the industry’s dependency on fossil fuels. The International Energy Agency’s 2019 Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction reveals that...
President Cyril Ramaphosa gave a keynote address at the two-day Human Rights Commission National Conference on Local Government Accountability, Service Delivery and Human Rights. The purpose of the conference was to identify challenges at local...