WWEM 2012, the 5th in a series of highly successful environmental monitoring events, will return to the Telford International Centre on 7th and 8th November 2012 to provide visitors with the latest information on regulations, standards, methods and...
The Department of Human Settlements (DHS) has been fudging delivery figures relating to the Rural Households Infrastructure Grant (RHIG). This was revealed today in a presentation by the National Treasury to the Portfolio Committee on Human...
Fisherfolk and farmers living near Malawi’s second-largest water body, Lake Chilwa, are relocating en masse and scrambling for space around its shores as the lake has dried to dangerously low levels. Professor Sosten Chiotha, an expert with...
Aid agencies are scrambling to treat thousands of cholera patients in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, where the number of infections is mounting by over 250 per day. Most patients are from the city’s various urban slums, where open...
Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality successfully completed a R13 million emergency sewer upgrade in the Klippoortjie area after the area was declared a disaster zone following leakages in the existing and outdated pipeline. Incledon was contacted...
By June this year Esorfranki had secured an order book for pipe jacking and associated projects worth in the region of R100 million. This will comfortably see the pipe jacking team through to the end of the year. This upswing in business is...
Highview Power Storage and Basil Read Energy (BRE) have announced a strategic partnership agreement for the commercial deployment of Highview’s proprietary energy storage technology in South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. The agreement with BRE...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) wants SADC countries to put five percent of their monetary reserve towards the establishment of an infrastructure bond that would help speed up infrastructure development in rail, water, ports and energy. The...
South Africa’s public-private partnership (PPP) model for renewable energy is showing the potential of attracting R100 billion in investments, said David Humphrey, the global head of power and infrastructure at Standard Bank. Humphrey said the way...
