By Songo Didiza* We are pleased to introduce the Green Building Design Group (GreenBDG), a proudly South African black managed and controlled non for profit organisation that was established in 2016. The GreenBDG offers an open platform for the...
A global Grant Thornton Public Sector survey found that innovative, transformative practices in government public financial management are being sustained, but that improvements are still needed. According to the data, the real problems lie in the...
Top-level executives and heads from Africa’s leading infrastructure and construction companies and institutions met to discuss strategies to foster industrialisation at a special event held in Johannesburg. The Captains of Construction annual...
Despite constructions firms’ best intentions to get on the right side of the public sector’s perception they have been punched with a body shot from SARS. This follows the widely publicised affair of 15 companies paying a total fine of R1.46...
The Department of Labour says it has picked up a disturbing trend of a growing disregard for occupational health and safety (OHS) in the public service. Department of Labour Deputy Director-General of Inspection and Enforcement Services Thobile...
President Jacob Zuma says accounting officers of departments, constitutional institutions and accounting authorities of public entities are required to comply and ensure compliance with the provisions of the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA). In...
Public Service and Administration Minister Collins Chabane says the public sector must challenge itself to be creative and embrace innovation as a new way of doing government business more smartly. Speaking at the Centre for Public Service...
Capital expenditure by public sector institutions increased by 4.8% from R202.8 billion in 2012 to R212.5 billion in 2013, StatsSA reported. However, capital expenditure on new construction works is down. There has been an increased spend on plant,...
“The next 5 to 10 years will see South Africa continue to focus on redressing economic infrastructure backlogs and inadequacies with a view to stimulating growth and employment and reducing poverty and inequality,” says Dave Lewis, technical...
