Those who visited Jeffrey’s Bay this past festive season were met with a town in a state of disrepair as issues with water supply, power and sewage made headlines. According to JBay News the town suffered a power failure which lasted three days,...
The Mombasa port in East Africa, achieved a record throughput of one million TEUs in the year ending 31 December 2014. This is a significant increase from 2013 in which 894Â 000 TEUs were handled by the port. This major milestone places it among the...
Onshore construction of the largest planned tidal energy project in the world is expected to begin off the coast of Scotland this month, according to developers. The project, which is based on the coast of Caithness, is expected to power nearly 175...
The African Water Facility (AWF) has offered a €3.4 million grant to the Government of Mozambique to conduct a feasibility study for the development of a climate adaptation project in the lower Limpopo region. This project will include building...
Most cities in Nigeria today lack toilets for its citizens. This is according to Dominic Abonyi, the assistant registrar, Environmental Health Registration Council of Nigeria (EHORECON). Speaking to Nigerian newspaper Leadership Weekend Abonyi...
Improvements to water and energy infrastructure must continue in the New Year, President Jacob Zuma said in his new year’s statement. “[In 2014], we celebrated the milestone of 11 million connections to electricity since 1994,” he said,...
Consumers at the pump will feel some relief this week as the price of 93-octane unleaded petrol will drop on Wednesday (7 January) to its lowest level since August 2012. Continuing weak global crude oil prices is the main reason for the drop in...
Six people lost their lives this morning when an articulated truck collided with two motor vehicles on the N17 near the Devon off ramp close to the Delmas area. Paramedics from ER24 and Mpumalanga Fire and Rescue Services arrived at the incident...
Windhoek could be facing water shortages as a result of very little rain and a severe drop in water levels in the three dams that supply the city. This is according to the latest NamWater dam bulletin. The New Era Newspaper reported that the delay...
