Brands and their relevant packaging need to reflect consumer’s need to be more environmentally responsible. Now more than ever, there is no trade-off between business and sustainability. Consumers expect more of brands and businesses now – and they...
Hiroaki Sugawara is the new CEO of Isuzu Truck South Africa, replacing Hiroshi Nishizaka who will be taking up a position within the company in Australia. Sugawara has worked for the Isuzu Motors Corporation for 35 years and has specialised...
WEC Projects has grown steadily over the past few years, quietly gaining market share and influence by producing brilliant and original project-based solutions in Gauteng. New managing director Wayne Taljaard explains what’s next for WEC. How have...
South Africa-based Protea Chemicals, one of Africa’s largest chemical companies, plays a pivotal role in enabling businesses, manufacturing entities and municipalities throughout the African continent to effectively treat and reuse water. The...
Phase 1 of the augmentation and upgrading of the James Kleynhans Bulk Water Supply in the Eastern Cape is about to commence. The soon to begin augmentation and upgrade is to meet water demand requirements for 2035 and during drought situations....
South African minister of water and sanitation announced earlier in the month that her department was ready to implement a long term strategy to deal with acid mine drainage. The acid has been a source of pollution known to gold miners and...
“It is now business unusual,” Minister of Water and Sanitation Nomvula Mokonyane told Parliament at the National Council of Provinces budget vote debate. Mokonyane said South Africa needs game changers when it comes to water ownership patterns and...
Kenya has launched a policy aimed at eradicating unsanitary hygiene practices as it moves towards increasing access to improved sanitation. The Kenyan government spends Ksh27 billion (±R4.2 billion) annually on hygiene-related diseases like...
With two-thirds of Africans expected to live in cities by 2050, how Africa urbanises will be critical to the continent’s future growth and development. This is according to the new African Economic Outlook 2016 released by the African...
