Due for completion in 2020, construction of a 2 561km standard gauge railway line in Tanzania commences on June 30. The line is meant to ease the movement of goods from the Dar es Salaam port to Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and the Democratic Republic...
A 40km road construction project in the Wedza District of Zimbabwe has been given the go-ahead. This as the Zimbabwe government accelerates the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation (Zim Asset). At an estimated cost of $22...
Kenya is marketing a project to raise $1.3bn needed for the upgrading of the Mombasa-Nairobi (A109) and Nairobi-Nakuru (A104) highways to dual-carriage ways. It is hoped that funds for the projects will come from foreign financiers and commercial...
Three bridges are to be built over the River Cubango in Angola, which makes up part of the larger Okavango River, in a construction initiative between Angola and Namibia. Construction of the bridges is set to strengthen bilateral trade relations...
City of Johannesburg’s Executive Mayor, Mpho Parks Tau spoke to delegates at the Johannesburg Waste Summit 2015 at the Sandton Convention Center on Tuesday 24 March. The purpose of the summit was to engage stakeholders in dialogue about innovative...
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says government will soon convene a summit to discuss solutions to the current electricity challenges facing the country. Responding to questions for oral reply at the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) on...
Africa’s greenest hotel, which is based in Cape Town, recently added to its growing collection of accolades by winning the Internorga Trendsetter Award, at the Internorga Trade Show, in Hamburg, Germany. The Internorga Trendsetter Award This annual...
Johannesburg residents have been encouraged to save power as part of the Earth Hour Challenge. “As residents of the City of Johannesburg, we need to change our way of life by constantly thinking of ways of reducing our carbon footprint, cutting...
A team of local government experts has been dispatched to Ventersdorp local municipality to conduct an intensive assessment on issues of governance and administration there. This, to determine the nature of intervention needed to get it back on...
