The Aggregate and Sand Producers Association of Southern Africa (ASPASA) is a voluntary producers association that helps to improve the quality of aggregates produced by its member companies for construction projects around the country. The role...
The South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) has approached several banks, including commercial banks, in the hope of raising R1.48 billion. Sanral’s toll and traffic manager Alex van Niekerk says the bulk of the amount needed is...
Green is increasingly the new gold standard in road building, and South African roads are set to get “greener” as our road builders and associated organisations recognise the value of more environmentally-friendly asphalt technologies. This is...
Roads in the North West province are a lot safer after 120 000 potholes and 800 km of tarred road were repaired on the public roads network in the past six months. Briefing provincial stakeholders on the Strategic Infrastructure Programme (SIP) 4...
Recently, the City of Cape Town partnered with University of Cape Town engineering students to find “creative ways to complete” the highways. “What we’re asking them to do is to assess whether [we should] complete them,...
SANRAL CEO Nazir Alli has vehemently denied allegations of breaching transport policy and good governance made by John Clarke, a social worker, in a complaint he has filed with the public protector about Sanral’s dealings with bidding companies on...
Nazir Alli might be out of the picture, but Sanral’s plans to roll out e-tolling endure. This week the government task team headed by Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe will begin trying to work out what to do about the court interdict barring the...
With the controversial e-tolling saga underway, it seems the SANRAL board has reached a decision on who will replace former CEO Nazir Alli in the hot seat. Following Alli’s resignation on Monday, Engineering Executive and long-standing SANRAL...
In an interview with Radio 702’s John Robbie this morning, Transport MMC for Johannesburg, Rehana Moosajee, stated that the City of Johannesburg and the Johannesburg Road Agency (JRA) are in favour of public private partnerships to ensure...
