Zola Tsotsi, director and chairman of the board of Eskom, has stepped down after a lengthy deliberation by the Eskom board on a vote of no confidence on Monday, 30 March. Dr Ben Ngubane has been appointed acting chairperson. According to a...
The WASH Ebola away campaign has been extended to one of the hardest hit counties in Liberia. The campaign is an effort by the global community and the Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector to combat Ebola at a community based level. The...
Every two years, the Institute of Municipal Engineering of Southern Africa (IMESA) invites local, provincial and government or semi-government authorities and their engineering consultants to submit entries for the IMESA Biennial Project Excellence...
Toilets that use microwave energy to transform human waste into electricity. Another captures urine and uses it for flushing. And still another turns excrement into charcoal. These aren’t your typical loos – they are part of a Bill & Melinda...
A whopping 30MW annually could be saved by cash-conscious South African municipalities should their water treatment plants decide to switch off Eskom and switch on the electricity-generating potential of methane-rich biogas. That’s according...
All roads will today lead to the Rietvlei Nature Reserve where the topic A clean and green city will be discussed with various stakeholders including environmental experts and activists as part of the Tshwane Growth and Development Strategy (GDS)...
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...
