The Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) launches the R80 million City of Johannesburg’s roads rehabilitation and reconstruction programme today. The announcement forms part of the JRA’s R5,6 billion budget for the period 2014-16 as approved by the City...
Just after 3 am on Friday 3 October a tanker, the MT Pacific Quartz, carrying diesel was suspected to have touched bottom off the North Pier at the Port of Durban. According to a statement released by Transnet National Ports Authority, the tanker...
The City of Joburg launched a brand new park in the inner city on the eve of the sixth annual World Parks Day. Described as “the ultimate outdoor experience,” the R16-million Inner City Metro Park was officially opened by Johannesburg Executive...
Environmental health is a key responsibility for the City of Cape Town’s Health Directorate, despite functioning largely out of the public eye. The city celebrated World Environmental Health Day last week under the theme “Addressing Environmental...
Earlier this week Statistics SA confirmed that the municipal total income for the second quarter of 2014 was R68,4 billion in its Quarterly Financial Statistics of Municipalities report. The main source of municipal income was identified as the...
Rand Water’s distribution network consists of over 3 300 kilometers of large diameter pipes. About 10% of Rand Water’s pipelines are pre-stressed concrete pipelines and the rest are steel pipelines. Water is supplied to 58 strategically located...
It has been three years since Project Group held their last golf day, so we thought it was high time to hold another one. As the National Sea Rescue Institute is close to our hearts, all the funds we raise this time will go to the NSRI, for Sea...
The Gauteng Premier’s Coordinating Forum has resolved to establish the Gauteng Infrastructure Coordinating Council. At a meeting last week to address the Gauteng water crisis, the forum discussed practical steps required to radically transform,...
The Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation says the continuing vandalism and theft of valves, copper and transformers has a direct bearing on water shortages in many municipalities across South Africa. The committee visited Madibeng Local...
