Pictured: Minister in the Presidency, Trevor Manuel Minister in the Presidency, Trevor Manuel, has been fending off criticism of the National Development Plan (NDP), saying it was never meant to be a “perfect document” but the country could not...
On the opening day of the 2013 Public-Private Infrastructure Forum held in Gauteng, Nazir Alli, CEO of South Africa National Road Agency Limited (SANRAL) asked why the rural poor should be expected to pay for the country’s urban highways. Only 2%...
Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) has released a statement indicating that the organization is encouraged by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s opinion piece which appeared in the Sunday Times entitled: “How SA can beat global financial...
Recent talks that the National Development Plan (NDP) is fatally flawed and impossible to implement, are worrying and cause for concern when in the State of the Nation Address, government adopted the NDP as a route map with the aim of eliminating...
The Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Edna Molewa, is set to launch the Groen Sebenza Jobs Fund Project, spearheaded by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), at the Pretoria National Botanical Gardens this Saturday,...
Pictured: Aerial view of Polihali dam Speaking at African Utilities Week last week the Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Edna Molewa announced that construction on the R12billion second phase of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP)...
Delegates at Automechanika Johannesburg heard today that Gauteng and the City of Tshwane are compelling automotive investment destinations. Siphiwe Ngwenya, CEO of the Gauteng Growth and Development Agency, outlined the advantages at a breakfast...
Pictured: SAICE’s immediate past president, Dr Martin van Veelen The South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) is perturbed to see that National Treasury has set up a task team which consists of financial services only “to find new...
Pictured: Darryll Killian, partner, SRK Consuliting There is a common thread running through South African discourse of late, from President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation address to Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s 2013 Budget Speech. That link...
