johannesburg | Infrastructure news - Part 10

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The lessons Eskom learnt the hard way

By Brian Dames, CEO of Eskom Eskom has learnt some painful lessons over the past few years during our first massive expansion programme in 20 years and the largest ever undertaken in South Africa. It would be hard to overstate the size of the...
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Two decades of trenchless technology

This year, Trenchless Technologies celebrates its 20th anniversary in the directional drilling and pipe rehabilitation industry, which indicates a certain tenacious faith, Trenchless Technologies’ Sam Efrat tells Chantelle van Schalkwyk. “One needs...
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Veolia reshuffles facilities to improve delivery

Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies South Africa’s Engineered Systems & Services division has relocated from Isando to a new manufacturing and administration facility in Sebenza, east of Johannesburg. The move has effectively created...

‘Unauthorised power outages were deliberate’

It’s understood that striking City Power workers targeted high-profile sites when they allegedly sabotaged the electricity supply in parts of Johannesburg this week. Many suburbs in the city were plunged into darkness after disgruntled...
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Pikitup to implement “aggressive transformation”

Pikitup, the City of Johannesburg’s waste management entity, is currently implementing an aggressive transformation and turnaround strategy “which involves large-scale improvements in all areas of governance and operations efficiency across its...