Gauteng MEC for Roads and Transport Ismail Vadi has announced new plans for the R52 million rehabilitation and widening of Witkoppen Road. Vadi recently conducted a site inspection of the damaged culvert on Witkoppen Road and to meet with the...
EFTEC are suppliers and manufactures of fine bubble aeration systems, diffuser systems, stainless steel air manifolds, air compressors or blowers and complete aeration process control systems. Maryke Foulds met with Hennie Basson MD to discuss the...
17 – 19 June 2014 at CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria Sustainable Agriculture Expert – Inge Kotze This year boasts the inaugural annual Food Security Seminar, which forms part of Sustainability Week taking place from 17 to 19...
Environmental scientists from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) are making progress in their search for the best parts of South Africa for new wind and solar PV energy projects. The CSIR was commissioned by the Department of...
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has approved a Unit of Account (UA) 70 million (about $109 million) loan to the Government of Uganda. Uganda has received a $109 million loan to finance its Road Sector Support...
There are still 2.5 billion people in the world without a basic toilet – a number that has remained unchanged for more than a decade following population increases and a lack of investment. Of these, some 1.1 billion still practice open defecation....
Zimbabwe’s largest inland dam will be drained to allow the construction of a new wall after the original structure burst earlier this year. Thousands of people were evacuated and more than 3 000 villagers along the Tokwe Mukorsi basin left...
Test results from the water that’s caused widespread diarrhoea in the North West town of Bloemhof are expected today (1 June 2014). The national government has stepped in to resolve the crisis and Water and Sanitation Minister Nomvula...
Engineers are in short supply in South Africa according to government’s national scarce skills list. The Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr Blade Nzimande, MP, has gazetted the National Scarce Skills List: Top 100 Occupations in Demand...
