Representatives from Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) recently attended the 19th Group of African Member Associations (GAMA) Conference held in Livingstone at the Zambezi Sun adjoining the spectacular Victoria Falls. GAMA is the African...
The vast majority of companies today are unaware that new regulations governing the treatment of sanitary waste are making their way through the legislative process and are on their way to becoming law. That’s according to leading health and...
8th State of Logistics survey Amidst change and uncertainty in glbal economies, a shift is seen towards emerging markets that have been more resilient to the economic dowturn than their counterparts in developed countries. South Africa is currently...
For years Durban’s municipal bus service has been in a mess. City manager S’bu Sithole accepts this, earlier this month telling a city council meeting that the bus service had been defective for the best part of a decade. The acknowledgment of the...
Lake Victoria had been the home of bustling water ferry traffic that connected Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. But over recent decades, the ferryboats aged and the traffic dwindled. South Africa-born shipbuilder Robert Smith has set out to bring the...
The UN-backed Decade of Road Safety Action is just over a year old and the Automobile Association (AA) maintains South Africa has, to date, been sadly lacking in interventions to support the international campaign. “The AA is outraged that there...
The Zimbabwe National Water Authority or ZINWA has begun a national exercise to register boreholes throughout the country as the water crisis continues to affect many in the cities. Under new rules, the water ministry now requires all borehole...
By 2025 half the world’s population will not have enough water to meet its needs, warns Rashad Kaldany, urging governments and the private sector to work on solutions, which he says, do exist. Rashad Kaldany is vice president for Global Industries...
Uganda’s economy loses an estimate of 177 million U.S. dollars, 1.1 percent of GDP, annually due to poor sanitation, a new World Bank report released on Tuesday has said. According to the desk study, Economic Impacts of Poor Sanitation in Africa...
