The 2012/2013 budget speech for the City of Tshwane (CoT), which was delivered today by Executive Mayor, Councillor Kgosientso Ramokgopa, proposed increased tariffs for the city’s 2012/13 medium-term revenue and expenditure framework (MTREF)....
Consulting engineering, project management and implementation firms Hatch and GOBA, are pleased to announce their intention to merge the two businesses in South Africa. The proposed new entity will form part of the global Hatch group and will be a...
Eskom might face difficulties in raising funds for its coal-fired projects in future if environmental organisations kept challenging decisions to fund coal plants, Econometrix’s chief economist, Azar Jammine, said yesterday. Jammine was reacting to...
The South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) may have to buy back bonds, the Auditor-General is warning of disclaimers and qualified audits, there are questions around whether Sanral would remain an going concern and the potential for increased...
The cost of phase one of the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP) alone has escalated significantly, to almost R90 billion. Democratic Alliance (DA) Gauteng transport spokesperson Neil Campbell says the entire GFIP project, and not just phase...
It is five o’clock in the evening and the computer dials at the nerve-centre of state electricity firm Eskom are cranking towards the red as millions of people get home and turn on their heating, hot water and cookers. In the next two hours, demand...
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has made an unusual appeal to the Constitutional Court in a bid to set aside the high court order halting e-tolling. “At the heart of the dispute in this case, lies a fundamental issue regarding separation of...
by Richard Jansen van Vuuren All those wonderful feelings and memories of the Soccer World Cup seem so distant lately. In just two years since the event the construction industry and government have been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons....
African leaders have been advised to embrace new types of transportation in order to reduce the cost of doing business that is fuelled by the high cost of transporting commodities.Uganda’s High Commissioner to Tanzania, Mr Ibrahim Mukiibi, said use...
