Water shortages have again lead to violence in the North West Province. Violence broke out after residents from a village near Zeerust marched to their local municipal headquarters to demand the delivery of water to their villages. Police say...
The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) has issued its first request for proposals for funding from the Infrastructure Investment Programme for South Africa (IIPSA). The IIPSA is a €100 million (R1.5 billion) ground-breaking programme to...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has formally launched the Capacity Building Project in Centurion. This follows the signing of the project between the African Union Commission (AUC) and the AfDB during the meetings of the African Heads of State...
Gauteng-based structural steel product manufacturer Structa Technology has successfully undertaken, delivered and commissioned a 4.2 Mℓfire water tank project for state-owned power utility Eskom’s coal-fired Medupi power station. This is the...
Trucks part distributor, AfintaPart has donated R200 000 worth of car seats to the Wheel Wall store at the Brightwater Commons Shopping Centre in Randburg. Wheel Well collects used children’s car seats and once they are in good repair distributes...
The Water Research Commission (WRC) received special recognition at the Annual National Wetland Awards, sponsored by Mondi, for funding and publishing the Wet‐Management Series.The awards were held on 22 October 2013 at the National Wetland Indaba,...
South Africa, home to over 51 million people, has seen its fair share of natural disasters. Now another one looms: water shortages can become a reality very soon, writes Malcolm Corns of SafeQuip. As more and more people migrate into cities from...
Part one Based on a presentation to the annual IMESA conference “Municipal Engineering: Meeting People’s Needs”, held in Port Elizabeth, October 2013 By Kevin Wall, Oliver Ive, Jay Bhagwan, Wayne Birkholtz, Nocawe Lupuwana and Esther Shaylor...
The Polystyrene Council is driving a dynamic marketing and awareness campaign of its various charity projects to schools across Gauteng. According to PSPC Director, Adri Spangenberg, twenty new schools have committed themselves during the month of...
