It was with great interest that the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) has followed the Auditor General’s discussion on the state of the audits of local authorities in South Africa. The report is cross-cutting and has reference...
The SADC summit in Maputo, Mozambique, this month will consider approving the regional infrastructure development master plan. It aims to deal with the region’s deficit in road, rail, ports, power, communication and water infrastructure. The...
Failing infrastructure, inadequate investment, bad management and decay pose a threat to SA’s water systems, some of which are on the brink of collapse. In a water-scarce country with erratic and unpredictable rainfall, insufficient...
The North West Province’s Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality is the first municipality in the country to be approved by National Treasury to pledge their conditional grants in order to bring forward implementation of water and sanitation...
Cabinet has approved the Transport Laws and Related Matters Amendment Bill, 2012 for submission to Parliament, according to a statement by the Government Communication and Information System (GCIS). It said the Bill had been necessitated by the...
Kenya Railways is shopping for an investor to construct Nairobi commuter rail system. The state placed advertisements jointly with InfraCo Africa, a British donor funded company seeking an interested consortium of engineering, procurement &...
Engineering firm Sanyati, which employs about 2 500 people and is black-empowered, is about to be liquidated. The reason is that government has not paid Sanyati for the work done for it. Sanyati rehabilitated roads. This was part of South Africa’s...
Shippers are adopting measures to significantly increase their share of the oil and gas sector. They are advocating the local content policy to increase participation for the development of industrial infrastructure and skills of the local people....
Transport costs in landlocked African countries account for a “staggering” 70% of the value of exported goods due to the lack of infrastructure, Roelof van Tonder, CEO of the Built Environment Professions Export Council, said on...
