The City of Windhoek (CoW) and the Drakenstein Municipality in South Africa has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the area of economic development, trade, tourism, culture, sports and urban planning and land management. Windhoek mayor...
The Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) has invested R185m in an East London airport runway upgrade project, the largest expenditure in the airport’s history, airport manager Michael Kernekamp said. The project to rehabilitate...
A new infrastructure programme to transform the country’s cities was officially launched on Friday. Officiating at the event in Kempton Park, Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Richard Baloyi said the objective was to...
Building industry organisations and experts are “very concerned” about the government’s intention to consider establishing a state-owned construction company. “This is just another hair-brain scheme,” Llewellyn Lewis, the principal consultant at...
Eskom dominates the domestic steam coal market in South Africa, accounting for about 116 million tonnes of the market’s 177 million tonne total. Even though the utility aspires to reduce its dependence on coal fired technology from 90% to about...
Hino South Africa has been rated the leading brand in the overall local truck market for the third successive year. This was announced at the annual awards function of the PMR Africa magazine held in Johannesburg recently. The survey was conducted...
DB Schenker to acquire 100.0% ownership of Desert Logistics in Namibia DB Schenker Logistics has opened up its own business in Namibia. Over the past five years, the Company’s customers relied on the services of partner Desert Logistics. After a...
Botswana has opened her skies to more international airlines with today’s signing of a Bilateral Air Services Agreement (BASA) with Ethiopia and Mauritius in Gaborone. This brings such agreements to nine as Botswana seeks to fully liberalise...
Akamba, East Africa’s oldest transport company, survived an attempt to close it down after the High Court rejected a petition seeking to wind it up. Mr Justice JM Mutava on Thursday struck down the petition filed by a section of directors of the...
