President Jacob Zuma is quite correct to defend the success of the government’s service delivery efforts, according to the South African Institute of Race Relations. Addressing a South African Local Government Association conference in...
The South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) president Dr Martin Van Veelenhas been elected as the new president of the Federation of African Engineering Organisations (FAEO). Dr Martin Van Veelen was nominated and elected for this...
Entries for the 2012 Eco-Logic Awards have exceeded all expectations and with judging now completed the finalists for each of the awards have been announced. According to David Parry Davies, founder of The Enviropaedia and initiator of the Awards...
Pondering Panda, a subsidiary of the World of Avatar which owns Mxit, some 84% of young South Africans are concerned about the consequences of fracking. These results come amid reports of how the exploitation of shale gas can change the landscape...
Three South African schools – two of them in rural areas – have come top of the class when it comes to environmental and green issues. The South African Institute of Architects (SAIA) has partnered with AfriSam for the biennial AfriSam-SAIA Award...
The executive mayor of Rustenburg Local Municipality in the North West, Councillor Mpho Khunou, recently issued a statement expressing his “deep concern” at the sewage problem that had been ‘threatening’ the City of Rustenburg as...
Most of the increasing number of alternative building technologies on offer now to help reduce the increasing backlog of housing in South Africa are essentially concrete systems. This is according to Adéle de Lange, human settlements technical...
Sanitation will take centre stage in government’s infrastructure build programme, Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale told Parliament on Friday. Tabling a summary of the long-awaited report of the Ministerial Sanitation Task Team (MSST)...
The opportunities for South African companies in Mozambique lay in servicing the burgeoning infrastructure, mining, agro-processing and port development industries, Rand Merchant Bank business development director Tshepidi Moremong said on...
