Joint centre for Barloworld and Caterpillar
By Shaun Greiner – [[https://commons.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Commons]]</span>Barloworld and Caterpillar are cementing their 90-year heavy equipment partnership in southern Africa by consolidating...
View ArticleSanral pushes on with Wild Coast upgrades
© Leon Swart – [[www.123rf.com 123RF.com]]</span>The South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) is to award R3.1bn in tenders for two megabridges in the Eastern Cape in the next two months.
View ArticleHow streets can help bridge social and spatial divides
Image: Bruce Sutherland</span>If you weren't aware, something is happening in our Mother City. Bicycle lanes are being implemented, people are starting to carpool, walk, skateboard, or roller...
View ArticleGauteng ploughs billions into infrastructure
© Frank Gärtner – [[www.123rf.com 123RF.com]]</span>The Gauteng Provincial Government will over the next three years invest more than R44bn in infrastructure development, while provincial...
View ArticleR1.5bn steel fund to come into effect in June
© laurentiu_iordache – [[www.123rf.com 123RF.com]]</span>A R1.5bn steel competitiveness fund will come into effect next month, Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel said on Thursday, 25 May.
View ArticleSteel maker closes R4.5bn loan facility
© Oleksiy Holubenko – [[www.123rf.com 123RF.com]]</span>ArcelorMittal SA has closed a revolving R4.5bn structured commodity-trade finance facility over 36 months to finance working capital, as...
View ArticleCape water woes solved... for now
Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille prayed for an answer to the city's water crisis recently - and immediately got one.
View ArticleCity of CT, Stellenbosch University sign MoA for urban renewal in Bellville
Image source: [[http://futurecapetown.com/2013/04/10-reasons-why-bellville-could-boom-or-bust/#.WSvIXmh942x Future Cape Town]]</span>The City of Cape Town and Stellenbosch University have signed...
View ArticleGestalt applauds envisaged construction sector BEE codes
© Lukas Gojda – [[www.123rf.com 123RF.com]]</span>BEE consultancy Gestalt has given the ‘thumbs-up' on the envisaged construction sector BEE codes which it believes have the potential to...
View ArticleUrban Development Zone allowance under the Income Tax Act
© Steven Jones – [[www.123rf.com 123RF.com]]</span>In line with international models, South Africa has attempted to incentivise investment into the development and renewal of certain urban areas....
View ArticleRBIDZ key in driving radical economic transformation
Richards Bay Industrial Development Zone (RBIDZ) is deliberately focusing on opening opportunities for emerging contractors as part of efforts aimed at fast-tracking their entry into the mainstream...
View ArticleHustling from builder to entrepreneur, one brick at a time
Builder-turned-entrepreneur, 33-year-old Nhlanhla Ndlovu was recently selected as one of 16 participants for the 2017 intake of the Red Bull Amaphiko Academy, an incubator for grassroots social...
View ArticleCities may be 8°C hotter by 2100: study
© blinkblink1 – [[www.123rf.com 123RF.com]]</span>Under a dual onslaught of global warming and localised, urban heating, some of the world's cities may be as much as 8°C warmer by 2100,...
View ArticleAnother green achievement for the National English Literary Museum
The first Public & Education (PEB) building in South Africa to achieve a five-star Green Star SA rating for its design in November 2013, the National English Literary Museum has added another...
View ArticleSACAP achieves full Canberra Accord signatory status
Now a full signatory of the Canberra Accord (CA), all those on the South African Council for the Architectural Profession (SACAP) register, as well as all architectural students from local...
View ArticleWillowlamp scoops darc award
Willowlamp, a South African lighting design company, scooped an award at the inaugural darc awards / decorative 2017 gala event held in London in May. The company's bespoke designs created for Hotel...
View ArticleA clear vision when expanding into Africa is critical
© Dereje Belachew – [[www.123rf.com 123RF.com]]</span>Expansion into African markets is not a decision that should be taken lightly - even the best-laid plans can be stymied by unexpected...
View ArticleHigh level water panel meets in SA
© Ilko Iliev – [[www.123rf.com 123RF.com]]</span>A panel constituted of high level leaders from several countries around the world has met in South Africa to thrash out ways in which water use...
View ArticleNo offers yet for a deal, says Group Five
© Leon Swart – [[www.123rf.com 123RF.com]]</span>Group Five says it remains some way from concluding an empowerment deal in terms of a settlement agreement with the government to transform SA's...
View ArticleRBIDZ officials receive high level SEZ training in China
Richards Bay Industrial Development Zone senior management partake on a fourth Capacity Building programme on Special Economic Zones taking place in Tianjin - China from 24 May to 13 June 2017.
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