Today, SMEC formally announced its merger with Vela VKE at a press briefing in Sandton – strengthening their standing in South Africa and the wider African market. SMEC is an Australian-based professional services firm with a global footprint that...
With growing trade volumes, the Namibia Port Authority is planning a major expansion of its facilities and preparing itself to exploit the opportunities the African west coast offers. The Namibian spoke to Namport chief executive officer Bisey...
On a dusty mountaintop in Lesotho, Mamoliehi Tsapane beats sorghum with a wooden stick, the white grains popping from the husks over a bright green tarp. Just beyond her backyard, a Chinese construction company is blasting the mountain, carving out...
Sanitation, viewed at the global and the national level, is a major problem, a representative of the UNICEF and United Nations Children’s Fund in Tanzania, Dorothy Rozga said in Moshi on Saturday. Rozga said 2.5 billion people globally do not...
When thinking of South Africa’s beaches one imagines pristine sand, igneous rock and stunning scenery. Apart from the bitterly cold waters of the Atlantic beaches in the Western and Northern Cape provinces our beaches are great places to swim as...
The eThekwini municipality can once again advertise, process and award tenders for the transportation or removal of waste water sludge after the lifting of an interdict preventing it from doing so. Last Thursday, the Pietermaritzburg High Court...
The Southern African Plastic Pipe Manufacturers Association (SAPPMA) has announced that lead has been eliminated from all locally-manufactured plastic pipe products and that all plastic pipes manufactured by its members are guaranteed to be free of...
B&E International is continuing its long-standing relationship with the Department of Water Affairs after winning the contract for the supply of all aggregates to the De Hoop Dam scheme. The dam, which has a planned capacity of 300 million...
With South African importers and exporters handling millions of tonnes of cargo via sea every month, amounting to a value of billions of Rands, it is crucial that these businesses fully understand the major risk factors involved in the transport of...
