Adding to Aurecon’s growing list of environmentally sustainable building projects, Mayfair on the Lake, a multifunctional development on KwaZulu-Natal’s (KZN) prestigious Umhlanga Ridge, has been awarded a four-star Green Star SA Office As Built v1...
Gauteng has pioneered the first green school in the country in Centurion, recently opened by the province’s Premier Nomvula Mokonyane. The state-of-the-art Orefile Primary School is set to dramatically improve learning conditions in...
Lawi Joel reports in the Tanzania Daily News that Dar es Salaam produces on average 4 100 tonnes of municipal waste every day but is able to remove only 50% of the load. Joel says the city is “choking in its own waste”. Waste, if improperly...
Seven in 10 women in sub-Saharan Africa have no access to a safe toilet, which threatens their health and exposes them to shame, fear and even violence. This according to a survey conducted by WaterAid on women living across five slums in Lagos,...
In 2001, Singaporean businessman Jack Sim founded the World Toilet Organisation to bring attention to the lack of sanitation in developing countries. Travellers are still taking part in the organizsation’s annual World Toilet Day (19 November),...
On World Toilet Day, 2.5-billion people sit without access to adequate sanitation. A child dies every 15 seconds as a result. In South Africa the move towards universal access has improved since 1994, but the census showed that 5.2% of households...
Photo: Various government commissions and agencies that have been established to solve problems in local government can research and examine the problems being experienced in infrastructure delivery but the delivery of service infrastructure can...
According to Minister of Public Enterprises, Malusi Gigaba, South Africa can be proud of the unveiling of 50 Transnet Pipelines (TPL) tank wagons which will help the country in its quest to become an original equipment manufacturing hub on the...
Caption: Jayne Mammatt, the associate director of sustainability and integrated reporting at PricewaterhouseCoopers RĕSource hosted a one-day seminar yesterday, November 15, on Preparing for Carbon and Environmental Taxes. The day was a roaring...
