Lawi Joel reports in the Tanzania Daily News that Dar es Salaam produces on average 4 100 tonnes of municipal waste every day but is able to remove only 50% of the load. Joel says the city is “choking in its own waste”. Waste, if improperly...
Lexmark South Africa’s has a zero-to-landfill company policy. This includes reducing waste that goes to landfill as well as targeting a 100% recycling rate of the components of all printer cartridges sold. The company’s ‘Recycling Initiative for...
The Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department is cracking down on unroadworthy public transport vehicles this October, through a special campaign dubbed “Operation Phepha”. “All categories of public transport vehicles will be the focus of our attention,...
Nigeria will continue to have problems with its energy sector because of its inability to develop a long-term vision that links energy access with industrial transformation, says Dr Kandeh Yumkella, the director general of the United Nations...
Q. How does your company contribute towards providing solutions to the shortage of water resources in our country and the effective distribution thereof? A.Quality Filtration Systems(QFS) has invested considerable time in the development of...
Many parts of the country were covered in snow today. The South African weather service says today is possibly the first time that snow has fallen in all nine provinces. The weather service says it’s not unusual to have snowfall just before...
The Dar es Salaam Port is a strategic entry and exit point for two major transit corridors in central east and southern Africa’s land-locked countries. The port serves the central corridor running from Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and Democratic...
The Human Settlement Department has revealed that the North West government has failed to spend R57 million earmarked for sanitation, despite a dire shortage of toilets in that province. Addressing the portfolio committee on human settlements...
Heavy Engineering firm DCD says the Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) has set the bar too low for local content in its procurement of train sets. It says an updated tender issued by Prasa on July 18 still only requires a zero to 40% local content...
