The Cape Town mayoral committee has approved a draft wastewater and industrial effluent bylaw, which gives the city the power to confiscate any vehicle used to dump waste illegally. 985 illegal dumping sites have been identified and measures such...
Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel will appear before the portfolio committee on economic development to answer questions on the Infrastructure Development Bill. Patel will be addressing the various questions and concerns raised by...
Deputy Director General at the Department of Water and Environmental Affairs Trevor Balzer has blamed a lack of engineers, technicians and artisans in municipalities for their inability to deal with the breakdown of infrastructure. “One of the...
Sasol will help clean up the toxic spill that affected one of the rivers flowing through the Kruger National Park. A tailings dam owned by Bosveld Phosphates overflowed at the end of last year following heavy rain, contaminating a 15km stretch of...
BOC Gases plans to construct a carbon dioxide plant at the Green Fuel ethanol plant in Chisumbanje, Zimbabwe. If established, it will have the capacity to supply the whole of Southern Africa. Carbon dioxide is a by-product in ethanol production and...
Commissioning, manufacturing, installing Noel Bessler, Peet Venter and Peet Eksteen of Osborn South Africa provide insight into some of the company’s top civil construction equipment. OSBORN ENGINEERED Products is a leading name in mining and...
Rural drought management A pilot project, based on a series of community and local authority workshops, has focused on Tsengiwe village near Cala (four hours’ drive from East London) in the Eastern Cape. Cape Town-based earth sciences and water...
On Sunday 22nd December, myself and three members of my family (one being Daniel the Spaniel), left for Archipelago Resort. We were on the road by 5 a.m. and reached Forbes Border Post just after 8 a.m. We executed our customs & immigration...
Minister of Science and Technology Derek Hanekom recently launched South Africa’s Bio-Economy strategy. The Bio-Economy Strategy shifts the focus from developing the biotechnology sector to developing a bio-economy. Bio-technology harnesses...
