A South African company is designing a safe helium-cooled nuclear reactor that will use a locally designed pebble-based thorium/uranium fuel, replacing uranium as the primary fuel. This will provide a safer environment, without meltdown risk, such...
Mercedes-Benz South Africa (MBSA), through its Daimler Trucks & Buses and Mercedes-Benz Vans division, has officially opened a modern commercial vehicles dealership in Rustenburg. The dealership, Maemo Motors, offers comprehensive sales and...
By @FrancesRingwood The Green Building Council South Africa (GBCSA) has launched an exciting new innovation for contractors, builders and anyone else involved in the residential home construction space. Through the hashtag; “#BringChangeHome” on...
Diepsloot has become the site for the realisation of basic human rights through the collaboration of design solutions and ideas from international teams in the Community Plumbing Challenge 2016 running from 9 to 15 July. Having working, clean and...
Although the latest statistics released by Statistics SA indicated that jobs in the civil and construction industry were maintained, the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) is concerned about the overall loss of 15Â 000 jobs in...
South Africa has taken another step close to achieving sustainable energy production with the gazetting of a draft policy on sustainable hydropower generation. The gazetting of the revised draft of the Sustainable Hydropower Policy (2015) by the...
Minister of Water and Sanitation Nomvula Mokonyane will meet with the public protector this week amidst allegations of corruption in the Lesotho Highlands Water Project. The minister is alleged to have delayed the project and awarded contracts to a...
The Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation Pamela Tshwete handed over the upgraded Swellendam Waste Water Treatment Works on Friday. The upgrading of the Swellendam Waste Water Treatment Works (WWTW) was necessary to ensure the increase of...
An estimated R4 billion is needed to fund a drought mitigation plan aimed at aiding all of the provinces affected by drought since January this year. The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) came to this conclusion after compiling a detailed...
