The Department of Water and Sanitation has expressed concern about the poor condition of municipal infrastructure for water reticulation, which has adverse consequences on the quality of service delivery. The performance of reticulation...
By Gillian Niven and Paula-Ann Novotny There has been much discussion following Minister Mantashe’s statements at the 26th Investing in Africa Mining Indaba relating to forthcoming legislative amendments which would allow mining companies to...
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) wrote to the City of Cape Town to request a meeting to find workable solutions to fix the sewage pollution crisis within the Diep River and Milnerton Lagoon. According to Andrea Korff, Legal Project...
Concor’s new group CEO Lucas Tseki is confident South Africa’s construction sector is turning the corner, provided there is no further delay in the adjudication and awarding of large infrastructure contracts by government agencies. “Concor has...
Many pupils in South Africa’s rural areas are forced to learn under appalling conditions. From lack of water to proper infrastructure, they are forced to brave difficult conditions just to get access to eduaction. Source:...
The Gauteng provincial water storage has shown some signs of stability as the weekly report by the Department of Water and Sanitation shows that dam levels are above 100%. They are curretly sitting at 103.0%. Despite the improvement and stability,...
Musa Ndlovu, Director at Quality Filtration Systems was recently awarded a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechatronic Engineering by CPUT. Ndlovu was one of a few women to receive the degree, which is a synergistic combination of precision mechanical...
Cape Town open water swimmer Andrew Chin was supposed to take the water once again with fellow athletes Dr Mandy Uys and Joy Roach from East London, to raise awareness around the poor state of our country’s rivers and to highlight the urgent need...
After an impressive week at the end of January – which saw dam levels rise after some rainfall – the Cape Town dam levels have yet again dropped. The facilities have seen 1.6% of their combined water totals chalked off over the past seven days. The...