Onto its third contractor and R125-million later, the Ngqamakwe water scheme in Tsomo, Eastern Cape, remains unfinished. It was meant to be completed in 2022, using funds allocated by the Department of Water and Sanitation to Amathole District...
It was six days into the 51st annual National Arts Festival (NAF) in July this year, and yet there were no lights to welcome visitors entering the small city of Makhanda (formerly Grahamstown) after sunset. Only the occasional shop front cast...
In May, the IWMSA hosted the Waste 360 conference. These conferences allow us to gather, speak one language, and find solutions to the problems that we all face. This conference, however, was a little more special because it wasn’t hosted in...
On 1 July, tragedy struck in Macibe village, Centane, in the Eastern Cape. Two boys drowned. They had been swimming in an open oxidation pond, part of a sewer project that has been left unfinished for 25 years. When the contractor left in 2000,...
