“There has never been a worse time to be a contractor,” SAFCEC President Thembinkosi Nzimande told delegates at the 2016 annual national SAFCEC conference. Nzimande highlighted the difficulties facing the South African job market, particularly in...
A drought declaration was affirmed for Gauteng in early October however the City of Johannesburg plans to introduce stronger water restrictions to further reduce water consumption by 15%. The City is expected to reduce its usage after the...
Modernisation of the public transport system in Gauteng will be the focus of transport month, Ismail Vadi, Gauteng MEC for Roads and Transport said at the inaugural Air-Rail Africa Conference. The minister said “we cannot speak about modernising...
While Building Control Officers (BCO) are entitled to draw plans, municipalities need to ensure that all conflict of interest is avoided when these plans get submitted for local authority approval, Marella O’Reilly, CEO of the South African Council...
Six years ago, the Visserhoek landfill site in Cape Town was granted authorisation to extend its lifespan to provide an extra six to nine years of landfill capacity. This extension was granted provided the City of Cape Town develop a master plan...
Six of the fifteen companies involved in the collusion uncovered by the Competition Commission have signed a Voluntary Rebuild Programme (VRP) Agreement with government which will see them make a significant financial contribution to the industry....
67 000 jobs were lost in the second quarter, a decrease of 0.7% compared to March 2016. The job losses, reported by Stats SA are in the formal non-agricultural sector. Quarterly employment losses were observed in all industries except electricity...
The preferred bidders of the first bid window for the coal baseload programme are Thabametsi and Khanyisa, Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson announced on Monday. The Coal Programme which was launched in December 2014 is the first baseload...
Safe and clean drinking water is a basic right to all South Africans, however there was a new threat going undetected until recently. Several medical and agricultural departments at the University of Pretoria have partnered with Rand Water to...
