More than one billion people living in Africa are still battling to gain access to electricity from the traditional grid supply. However, the energy landscape across Africa is evolving as consumers, independent power producers and other...
Ekurhuleni Executive Mayor Mzwandile Masina is leading a team of officials to fix and clean up the Germiston CBD street by street. A team of officials and workers was led by Masina to fix potholes, unblock stormwater drains, reinstate pavements...
The completion of an R80 million slope stabilisation engineering project in Nelson Mandela Bay has saved Africa’s automotive manufacturing capital from power black-outs, the South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL) announced today. SANRAL said...
Dam levels at the Lesotho Highlands Water Project have risen 5% following recent rains, but the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) says there is still a ways to go. Although supply from the project to South Africa has not yet been...
Above average rainfall is South Africa’s only hope for a significant improvement in dam levels. According to the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), communities across the country to continue to feel the effects of the drought despite recent...
Funding for green infrastructure projects has reached a record high figure of US$25 billion at the end of 2015, a new report by Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace has found. As most sub-Saharan countries battle with the effects of the...
The Department of Water and Sanitation responded to the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA), which recently called for transparency from the department. OUTA last week requested, through a Promotion to Access of Information Application –...
Three municipalities that were scheduled to have its power cut today have narrowly escaped darkness, however Eskom has made it clear that it will go ahead with the interruption of electricity supply to municipalities that still have outstanding...
By Frances Ringwood Landfill waste streams do not look the same today as they did 20 or even 10 years ago. These changes have been particularly pronounced in European countries where the drive towards ‘zero waste to landfill’ have infiltrated...
