The Department of Water and Sanitation says it will deploy water tanks and drill boreholes in the short-term in areas that are severely affected by the drought. Deborah Mochotlhi, the Deputy Director-General responsible for Planning and Information...
The Western Cape Human Settlements Department has exceeded its housing delivery targets for the 2014/15 financial year. The department tabled its annual report in the Western Cape Provincial Legislature on Tuesday. It obtained a clean audit and...
The more than 20 water pipes which burst around Cape Town on Tuesday were indicative of “normal wear and tear”, a city official said. “Although it is unusual for so many faults to occur at the same time, this is not indicative of anything other...
South African Cities Network CEO Sithole Mbanga says despite the many successes that have been made since the amalgamation of municipalities, more still needs to happen to transform the local sphere of government. Speaking ahead of the Africities...
Regulation – or more accurately, deregulation – has the opportunity to turbo-charge African aviation, through opening up landing rights across the continent. This is according to Tony Tyler, IATA director general and CEO who was...
Something very strange is going on in Cape Town, where just over 20 water pipes burst in the space of about an hour. The City of Cape Town’s alerts Twitter page first tweeted at about 10:40 on Tuesday that a water pipe had burst in Central...
Bridge City, a key link in KwaZulu-Natal’s rapidly developing Northern Growth Corridor, is attracting entrepreneurs and new entrants into the property development space. Brian Ive, a Development Executive at Tongaat Hulett Developments, said the...
Transport for Cape Town has set aside a special budget allocation of R18 million to implement 270 traffic calming projects across the city in the current financial year. “The majority of the traffic calming measures, such as speed humps, raised...
Nicholas McDiarmid, Associate Publisher of www.infrastructurene.ws , its three print titles, and editor of IMIESA Magazine, was recently interviewed about the role of municipal infrastructure on the cost of living in South Africa. Focusing on how...
