Due to a high volume of illegal waste dumping, the City of Cape Town has set aside R274 million for the removal of illegally dumped waste. To help mitigate the problem, the city’s Solid Waste Management Department has established an illegal dumping...
South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) CEO Manglin Pillay sat down with Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Hellen Zille to discuss, among others, jobs, procurement practices and the future of engineers in Africa. Although SAICE invited...
China is expected to upgrade its industrial cooperation with Africa by signing infrastructure agreements with several African countries in the road, railway, electrical power and aviation sectors. China hopes to actively take part in the...
Work on a 300 kilometre stretch of road along National Road 6 is due to begin in June and will see the road being repaired and widened where necessary. The work, awarded to China’s Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Corp (AFECC), will cost US$400...
Following on the growing success of previous e-waste collection days, eWASA and its members are gearing up to host the second e-waste collection day for 2014 on Saturday 10 May (09:00 to 13:00). Everyone is encouraged to bring broken and unwanted...
The online application platform for the Infrastructure Investment Programme for South Africa (IIPSA) has gone live. The IIPSA is a €100 million (R1.5 billion) ground-breaking programme to provide grant funding in support of loans for essential...
Botswana faces the possibility of its Gaborone Dam drying up by September this year if the country does not receive adequate rainfall before August. Erratic rainfall over the last three years has caused water problems for the country which declared...
Negotiations between NUMSA and Continental Tyre SA are underway and according to the company it is able to continue with limited production and meet the needs of original equipment (OE) manufacturers as well as the replacement market. Dieter Horni,...
The water sector is experiencing a critical scarce skills shortage, owing to an insufficient skills base and fierce competition in the labour market for skilled personnel, said the Department of Water Affairs (DWA) acting director- general Trevor...
