Aquatic scientists and managers can now rely on a new locally-developed local biotelemetry system to understand animal behaviour in water. For the last four years the Water Research Commission (WRC) has been funding a series of studies which have...
An alarming 50% of the world’s wetlands have been destroyed in the last 100 years, threatening human welfare at a time of increasing water scarcity, a new report said on Tuesday. Wetlands serve as a source of drinking water and provide...
The Mpumalanga Provincial Government coordinated by the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) has provided relief aid in the form of food parcels, bottled water, blankets, corrugated iron sheets, tarpaulins and tents...
Raw sewage is becoming a health risk to communities in the Vaal River catchment area who use water for domestic and agricultural purposes on a daily basis, the Democratic Alliance in Mpumalanga said on Thursday. “The DA has on a number of...
Port Elizabeth’s National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) rescued 76 people and a dog early on Sunday. The alert that the people, who were attending a religious meeting, were stranded upstream of the Swartkops River, cut off from the mainland by...
The announcement on Tuesday by Premier Thandi Modise about emergency road repairs to improve the road infrastructure across the province over the next six months has received the thumbs-up from residents. Modise said R280m was to be spent on road...
THE government’s massive infrastructure drive has gone from simple planning to the first stages of implementation, but help is needed in getting some of the projects going, delegates to the Presidential Infrastructure Investment Conference heard on...
According to BDlive, Public Works Minister Thulas Nxesi said that the government’s massive infrastructure development plan will change the fortunes of South Africa’s ailing construction sector. Profits in the building and construction...
Government has identified 18 infrastructure projects to take place in South Africa in the next 10 to 20 years, Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel said on Friday. He said 645 projects were identified by the Presidential Infrastructure...
