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Waste management plan in the pipeline

South Africa will soon have a Paper and Packaging Industry Plan, which will bring a significant change in the current waste management regime. “Through this plan we hope that we can commence with separation at source from household levels,”...
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Current funding model failing students

During the past days South Africa has witnessed the rising up of students whose tolerance with an inefficient funding system, reached its limit. Years of steady build-up of discontent and universities’ ineptitude to deal with the problem, erupted...

Historic touchdown at St Helena Airport

History was made recently as the first ever aircraft touched down on St Helena Island in the South Atlantic Ocean representing a momentous milestone in the St Helena Airport project which was officially announced by the St Helena Government in...

Is this the greenest dairy in SA?

While the rest of the country battles a drought a local free range dairy continues to forge ahead to cement its place as the Greenest Dairy in the Eastern Cape, with an R8 million investment. As users of between 2- to 300 000 litres of water per...

Knysna upgrades Hornlee storm water system

Knysna Municipality has started with the upgrade of two existing storm water culverts in Sunridge Street, Hornlee. The project, which costs R2.3 million, includes the exposure and removal of culverts in both positions in Sunridge Street and is set...
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R200 million set aside nuclear

At least R200 million has been set aside for the preparatory work of including nuclear energy in the country’s energy mix, Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene said. Speaking to reporters ahead of his tabling of the 2015 Medium Term Policy Budget Policy...