The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) says it believes the City of Cape Town’s proposed drought levy is the result of failed cooperative governance and a lack of the City’s ability to hold national authorities to account. The City of Cape Town...
The City of Cape Town last week started drilling to abstract groundwater from the Cape Flats aquifer as part of its ongoing efforts to mitigate the drought. Speaking at a site visit in Mitchells Plain last week, Executive Mayor Patricia de Lille...
Soweto’s Bridge Street Bridge over the Klipspruit River is due for a R37 million makeover by the Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA). The project, which started on 8 January 2018, is expected to reach completion in early January 2019 and involves the...
Energy expert Ted Blom believes distributed generation will slice electricity costs by up to 90% for the average household. Blom says South Africa and the world is at the precipice of revolutionary developments in energy generation and...
The construction and maintenance of roads are among the top priorities for government. IMIESA speaks to Steve Tinarwo, managing director, Instant Tar, about the company’s plans to grow its base in this strategically important sector. The...
Current budget restrictions now make it even more imperative that pavements are kept watertight and operational for as long as possible between scheduled maintenance interventions. Colas South Africa has the ultimate cold sealing and patch repair...
Site preparation for the Monwabisi desalination plant has kicked off in Cape Town as the City prepares projects to bring additional water supply online to combat the unprecedented drought. The Monwabisi desalination plant is one of seven projects...
The Department of Water and Sanitation met with AGRI-SA recently to discuss a way forward for the agricultural sector to deal with the challenges created by the debilitating drought engulfing the Western Cape. While the general consensus was that...
The eThekwini Municipality says despite recent rainfall, the current drought situation has worsened with water levels in some dams still critically low. The level of the Albert Falls Dam has been severely affected dropping further to 19.31%....
