The Dar es Salaam-Isaka-Kigali/Keza-Musongati railways project get a new push after the East African Community (EAC) and African Development Bank (AfDB) signed a grant agreement for the first disbursement of $428,000 out of an anticipated...
Basil Read’s building division has completed the second phase of the construction company’s new headquarters (pictured), with most of the group’s divisions and some subsidiaries taking occupation as of 30 March 2012. In early 2011, Studio mhr...
S Richardson, Councilfor Geoscience Dolomitic rocks occur in the Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Gauteng, North West and Northern Cape provinces of South Africa. Dolomite is a soluble rock type that gives rise to sinkholes and dolines if given sufficient time...
South Africa’s “Back to rail” strategy is well on track. Transnet’s chief executive, Brian Molefe, in briefing Parliament’s portfolio committee on economic development on the parastatal’s R300-billion market demand strategy, said that...
In his City of Tshwane (CoT) 2012 budget speech yesterday, Executive Mayor, Councillor Kgosientso Ramokgopa, announced the proposed tariff increases on waste, electricity, sanitation, water and property rates for the city. The tariff for solid...
The Green Fund, the fifth fund of Anglo American’s enterprise development arm, Zimele, has had an overwhelmingly positive response, since it officially launched in November 2011. The Fund, which aims to empower and encourage entrepreneurs to...
SSI Engineers and Environmental Consultants were appointed by the Municipality of Maseru in Lesotho to design a sludge handling facility. The sludge waste originates from a textile manufacturer in Lesotho and had to be transported at huge costs to...
Currently, South Africa has no legislation requiring a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. However in October 2011, Government released a National Climate Change Response White Paper which will pave the way for climate change legislation by...
BP will spend more than $400 million to significantly reduce noxious air pollution from its massive refinery in northwest Indiana (US), the company announced on 23 May, in a settlement with federal authorities and environmental groups that could...
