The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in collaborations with Kenya, Ethiopia and Somali governments have launched a joint groundwater initiative that aims at alleviating the impact of drought in the Horn of Africa. The...
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan says that the facts around the R20 billion Gauteng e-tolling saga will be presented to Parliament. Answering the debate on his budget vote speech on Friday, Gordhan accused opposition parties of just trying to score...
South Africa’s Cabinet approved a carbon capture and storage (CSS) roadmap for the storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) in deep geological formations. CCS has been identified in the South African government’s long-term mitigation scenarios plan as one...
Smart grids. Smart metering. If you are the kind of person who is regularly to be found around conferences where utilities and especially power supplies issues are discussed, you will be familiar with these words. In fact, you may even be one of...
Four African leaders are participating in this year’s G8 summit at Camp David on 19 May in a discussion session on accelerating progress towards food security in Africa. The statement signed by the White House spokesperson Jay Carney indicated that...
A petrochemicals group involved in affordable housing made from mining and manufacturing by-products, as well as an Eco Industrial Park in the hub of the Free State? Could the world’s largest maker of motor fuels from coal and one of South Africa’s...
