Featured
Magalies Water Turns Crisis Into Innovation
The Klipdrift Modular Treatment Plant is Africa’s largest package water treatment plant and the first in the world to integrate dissolved air flotation (DAF) and sand filtration within a single modular treatment system. “The scale and innovation of the package...
Featured
School Sanitation Solutions That Go Beyond The Toilet Block
Youth Month may have ended, but our commitment to safe, dignified school sanitation for every learner must continue throughout the year. In this article, Kirsten Kelly investigates how BORDA is helping schools provide safer, healthier learning environments while...
Featured
The Water Research Commission Champions Citizen Science For A Changing Climate
As extreme weather events become more frequent, the Water Research Commission (WRC) and the South African Weather Service (SAWS) are harnessing citizen science to improve local weather monitoring, strengthen early warning systems, and help vulnerable communities...
Featured
The Ongoing Case For Landfills In The Evolving Landscape Of Waste Management In South Africa
Landfills, depending on who you speak to, are either highly engineered last resort environmental barriers, or the biggest openly legal threat to environmental health. The truth is that the role of the landfill has changed over the years, and its ongoing utility is the...
Latest
President Ramaphosa Announces First Wave Of Green Hydrogen Projects
President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced the first wave of six priority green hydrogen projects under South Africa’s national green hydrogen programme, signalling a shift from project planning to implementation and investment. Addressing the African...
Joburg Launches Metroview Tool During Climate Action Plan Gathering
The City of Johannesburg’s Environment & Infrastructure Services Department (EISD), through its Air Quality and Climate Change Unit supported by the South African Local Government Association (SALGA), has convened a Town Hall Conference of...
Joburg Invests In Communities As It Unveils Recycling Sorting Facility
The Member of the Mayoral Committee (MMC) for Environment and Infrastructure Services in the City of Johannesburg, Cllr Jack Sekwaila, has welcomed the launch of Pikitup’s new recycling sorting facility at the Robinson Deep Landfill Site,...
Infrastructure’s Role In Femicide
Part of my job is connecting disparate social issues to infrastructure to explore the full scope of how infrastructure pushes and pulls on South Africa’s wider socioeconomic issues. As events unfolded in Kempton Park, where the bodies of...
Khubelu And Mabuyaneng Bridges Opened, Marking Completion Of The LHWP II Major Bridges Programme
The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) officially opened the Khubelu and Mabunyaneng bridges in Mokhotlong on Friday 11 September, completing the trio of major bridges built under Phase II of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP)...
Institute of Municipal Engineering of Southern Africa Welcomes National Water Action Plan, Calls For Professional Accountability And Utility-Style Water Management
The Institute of Municipal Engineering of Southern Africa (IMESA) has welcomed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s National Water Action Plan (NWAP) but says that the professional registration of senior municipal officials should be a central pillar of the...
Sustainability
Eleven Communal Herders Graduate As Professional Trainers In Landmark Moment For Rural Employment
Eleven EcoRangers recently completed the classroom training phase of Meat Naturally Africa’s (MNA) EcoTrainer programme, in what the organisation is calling a significant milestone in an effort to build genuine career pathways for herders in South...
Swarts Calls For Unified Air Quality Management System In Africa
Deputy Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Bernice Swarts has called on African leaders to develop a system to transform air quality information management and help improve the lives of millions of Africans who continue to breathe...
Green Connection Questions Israeli Oil Company’s Bid For South African Offshore Block Amid ICJ Case
Environmental justice organisation The Green Connection has written an open letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa about reports that Israeli-owned Navitas Petroleum LP is set to become operator of offshore oil and gas exploration Block 1 CBK in the...
South African-Established Marine Protected Areas (MPA) Day Gets United Nations Endorsement In 2026
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), often referred to as the ‘nature reserves of the sea’, are ecologically significant areas that protect vulnerable marine ecosystems, habitats and species, while supporting the people who depend on them....
SA, UN Collaborate To Push Towards Sustainable Development Goals
The Government of South Africa and the United Nations in South Africa will on Friday sign a five-year Cooperation Framework Agreement aimed at supporting South Africa’s national development priorities and the Sustainable Development Goals...
SAMRC And DFFE Join Forces To Strengthen Air Pollution Research And Protect Public Health
The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) and the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will strengthen collaboration between environmental and health experts to...
Events
Industry News
Infrastructure Delivery Is Key To Investor Confidence – Standard Bank Corporate And Investment Banking
South Africa’s infrastructure agenda has become one of the clearest tests of the country’s ability to convert national optimism into visible delivery, with implications for economic growth, investor confidence and the strength of the...
Minister Macpherson Welcomes Over R53 Billion In Infrastructure Investment Pitches At ISA Development Partners Forum
The Minister of Public Works & Infrastructure, Dean Macpherson, has welcomed four major infrastructure investment opportunities which were presented directly to local and international Development Finance Institutions and Multilateral...
Reflection on the 2025/26 Audit Outcome and the Council for the Built Environment’s Continued Progress
The conclusion of the 2025/26 audit marks another important point of refection milestone for the Council for the Built Environment (CBE). While the audit provides an important assessment of our governance and financial management, it also offers an...
Water
Metro News
Special Tribunal Declares eThekwini Low Cost Housing Contracts Unlawful
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has welcomed a Special Tribunal ruling declaring low-cost housing contracts – worth some R30 million – awarded to three service providers in the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality as unlawful and...
Deputy Minister Mahlobo Calls For Urgent Action As Municipal Debt Puts Water Boards Under Pressure
The Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation, David Mahlobo, has called for a collective approach involving government, communities, businesses, civil society and other stakeholders to address the growing municipal debt owed to water boards and the...
City of Johannesburg Water Supply Disruptions: Government Plans Response
The Ministry of Water and Sanitation, led by Deputy Minister David Mahlobo together with Deputy Minister Jack Bloom, convened an urgent stakeholder meeting last night, Tuesday 08 September 2026, with Rand Water, the Department of Water and...
Waste
Engineering
How Fair Wages Strengthen Productivity And Margins In Civil Engineering
As civil engineering contractors navigate tight margins in a constrained economic climate, there is growing recognition of the value that predictable employment conditions and fair wage structures bring to the sector. In an intensely competitive...
A South African Success Story In Global Engineering
SRK Consulting (SRK) was founded in Johannesburg in 1974 by Oskar Steffen, Andy Robertson, and Hendrik Kirsten. What began as a small South African practice with a focus on geotechnical engineering in mining, has grown into a global consulting firm...
Youth Month Highlights Opportunities We Inherit And Create
When I was growing up in a village in Limpopo, I watched infrastructure change lives. Roads improved access to services. Water systems brought dignity and livelihood opportunities. Communities that once struggled without basic infrastructure began...
Technology
- ReSource
- Water & Sanitation Africa
Digital Magazines
ReSource
The official magazine of the Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA) and is endorsed by 12 industry associations. ReSource is only integrated resources and waste management magazine in southern Africa.
- ReSource promotes integrated resources management, with a special focus on waste management and cleaner production and waste to energy initiatives.
- It provides comprehensive coverage of new developments, technologies, legislation and role players in the waste and environmental protection sectors.
- Owing to the organisations with which it is affiliated, the magazine has access to up-to- date news and unique information regarding its industry.
Digital Magazines
Water & Sanitation Africa
The official magazine of the Water Institute of Southern Africa (WISA), the magazine publishes content dealing with the supply, governance, financing, treatment and measurement of water and sanitation in southern Africa.
- The magazine provides industry updates and project information for both the public and private sectors.
- It is a vital source of business intelligence for municipal engineers, process controllers, water scientists, researchers, consulting engineers, plant operators, DWS government officials, treatment specialists and suppliers to the industry.
- Due to the multitude of connections within the industry, Water&Sanitation Africa provides in depth coverage on the latest trends, projects, challenges and opportunities within the sector.
