When the rehabilitation of the 50km dual carriageway is completed on the busy N12 freeway in Gauteng, there will be no toll fees charged on this stretch of road. This is according to MEC for Roads and Transport, Ismail Vadi. Vadi has also announced...
A paper and plastic packaging manufacturer plans to divert 29 000 tonnes of plastic bottles a year from landfill by building a R350 million state-of-the-art polyethylene terephthalate (PET) recycling plant. The new plant will process approximately...
Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has promised a new way in the delivery of housing. Sisulu was presenting her 100 days programme to the Portfolio Committee on Human Settlements, aimed at laying the basis for the acceleration of 1.5 million...
The ministers of Water & Sanitation, Health, and Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs has been issued joint letters by the Centre for Environmental Rights (CER), asking them to intervene urgently to ensure the provision of clean...
The Italeni has sailed into the Port of Durban to assist in handling dredged material at South Africa’s ports. This new 750 m3 grab hopper dredger is part of Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) Dredging Services R2 billion programme to...
As the winner of the Region Africa Middle East phase of the Young Freight Forwarder of the Year competition, Fortunate Mboweni of Bidvest Panalpina Logistics is now off to compete on a global platform. Fortunate’s prize is to attend and participate...
Amid reports that airlines are suspending flights over the Ebola outbreak the United Nations World Health Organisation (WHO) has allayed fears by sending out social media messages. These have assurances that “unlike infections like influenza and...
Britain will increase its funding for a programme to help South Africa develop a carbon trading market in an attempt to decrease the country’s rising greenhouse gas emissions. The British High Commission in Pretoria will fund a pilot emissions...
“Planning can’t be a project. The project must be releasing water in somebody’s yard, making sure that there is dignified sanitation,” Minister of Water and Sanitation Nomvula Mokonyane told the CESA Aon Engineering Excellence Awards last night (12...
