Nicholas McDiarmid, Associate Publisher of www.infrastructurene.ws , its three print titles, and editor of IMIESA Magazine, was recently interviewed about the role of municipal infrastructure on the cost of living in South Africa. Focusing on how...
The Gauteng Department for Roads and Transport has spent R193 million to upgrade the R25 (P6-1) road between Bapsfontein and Bronkhorstspruit. Provincial MEC for Roads and Transport Ismail Vadi said the project entailed an ugrade of a 42 kilometre...
The Oudtshoorn Waste Water Treatment Works (WWTW) have been thrust into the spotlight in recent weeks, as allegations of sewage pollution making its way from the works into the Olifants River dominated local media reports. Members of a Provincial...
Over the past few months, the City of Cape Town has spent approximately R40 million on revamping the historic mile area in Muizenberg in the Southern Peninsula. Apart from rehabilitating Main Road, it has refurbished walkways, parking areas and...
Pedestrians in Brackenhurst can once again cross Swartkoppies Road safely after the bridge was reopened following repairs. A part of the 190 metre-long bridge was knocked off by a truck load exceeding the height limit. The Ekurhuleni Metropolitan...
The City of Johannesburg handed over 60 fully subsided freehold RDP housing units in Kliptown Extension 6, Soweto, to residents being relocated from the Chris Hani, Fred Clarke and Charter Square informal settlements. Another group of 50...
The drought over the Free State has left one community without water for more than a week. The Smithfield town dam is empty and residents are struggling to obtain water for daily use. Source: SABC Digital News Source...
Councillors and traditional leaders are to be taught how to deal with housing challenges. A programme launched by the Eastern Cape department of Human Settlements in Port Elizabeth will be run in partnership with the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan...
The Durban Landfill Gas to Electricity Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project has been Africa’s first Landfill CDM Project. It has contributed to the Metro’s electricity supply and received revenue from methane (CH4) destruction in the form of...
