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Solving environmental law confusion: Lawyer Lizette van der Walt launches innovative app
Lizette van der Walt is a lawyer specialising in environmental law. In her 27 years of experience, she noticed a general confusion around environmental laws in South Africa and decided to help by creating the Enviro Legal app. This app is designed to help users...
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Turning The Tide To Achieve SDG 6
Coming off the back of the WISA 2024 Biennial Conference and Exhibition, we can all agree that accelerated change is needed in achieving SDG 6 by 2030. As we celebrate 30 years of democracy this year and honour women during the month of August, it is fitting that we...
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[Industry Personality] Carin Bosman: Make noise and have a code
The water sector is filled with passionate people, Carin Bosman is one such passionate person, and she serves to remind us of all that water is for the betterment of humanity, and when you are tasked with doing what is right, you have to make some noise. Early on in...
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[Cover Story] 40 years strong: Lethabo Intake Pumping Station’s historic refurbishment
A part of Rand Water’s proactive infrastructure maintenance project comprised the refurbishment of pumps and electrical boards at the Lethabo Intake Pumping Station. This key facility pumps water to ESKOM Lethabo Power Station and supplies over half of Gauteng via the...
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Investors back South Africa’s green plans
The idea that renewable energy could ultimately be more cost-efficient than conventional energy is gaining momentum. South Africa’s call to global investors to assist its renewable energy programme – which is trailing the rest of the...
GIBB appoints Environmental Legal Practitioner
Consulting engineering company, GIBB has appointed Tanya Faber, an Environmental Assessment Practitioner with 13 years of experience to the position of Environmental Legal Practitioner. Faber has over six years of experience with Environmental...
SA’s solar water heating programme to spend R4.5 billion
Changes have been announced to South Africa’s the national solar water heating (SWH) programme. The model will move from a rebate model to a government funded fiscus model that will involve a R4.5 billion spend over three years to achieve the...
Investors highly exposed to climate change and freshwater risks
A new report released today by WWF-South Africa (WWF-SA) and WWF-UK, in collaboration with Carbon Tracker, Trucost, SinCo and the Government Employee Pension Fund (GEPF), shows that institutional investors are failing to systematically factor in...
Water scarcity, rising costs take toll on farmers
Dwindling profitability and water scarcity have left South Africa with less than two-thirds of the number of food-producing farms it had in the early 1990s, says the latest agricultural trends report by the World Wide Fund for Nature in South...
Tackling carbon and environmental tax
Caption: Jayne Mammatt, the associate director of sustainability and integrated reporting at PricewaterhouseCoopers RĕSource hosted a one-day seminar yesterday, November 15, on Preparing for Carbon and Environmental Taxes. The day was a roaring...
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SAPPMA welcome BT-Industrial as a member
The Southern African Plastic Pipe Manufacturers Association (SAPPMA) has recently welcomed BT-Industrial (BTI) as a member. The BT Industrial Group consists of three specialised business units, i.e. a professional services division that focuses on...
Timber industry offers its resources to government for housing and isolation units
Sawmilling South Africa (SSA) and the Institute for Timber Construction South Africa (ITC-SA) have offered the South African government their combined resources, skills and expertise as part of their sector’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. One...
Lockdown demands that CIPC must rescind its delay of business rescue filing
The national coronavirus-related lockdown has put many companies into financial distress, but recent notices from the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) are delaying the business rescue process and in fact fall to be set aside...
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Cape Town expedites pressure management roll-out
The City of Cape Town’s Water and Sanitation Department is expediting the roll-out of its pressure management programme in response to the unprecedented drought. The City on Tuesday released a statement notifying residents of Kenridge, Protea...
Ekurhuleni mayor commitment to accelerated service delivery
Ekurhuleni Mayor Mzwandile Masina says his office intents to maintain the moment of rapid, efficient and quality service delivery. Outlining the City’s administrative trajectory for the 2018/19 financial year to council this week Masina emphasises...
EThekwini’s waste woes worsen
The eThekwini Municipality’s waste woes have gone from bad to worse with enraged waste contractors dumping rubbish on the N2 highway near Isipingo south of Durban. According to reports by the Daily News the contractors were protesting against...
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