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One dead as under-construction Singapore highway collapses
© Tom Gowanlock – [[www.123rf.com 123RF.com]]</span>SINGAPORE: One man was killed and 10 others injured in Singapore on Friday, 14 July, when a partially-built elevated highway they were working...
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Steel and engineering sector in a quagmire
© Andrey Armyagov – [[www.123rf.com 123RF.com]]</span>The knives are out in SA's metals and engineering sector. This stems from a bitter conflict that goes back to court-mediated arguments...
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#CSIMonth: Corobrik supports skills development, social upliftment in its CSI...
A core focus in the Corobrik CSI strategy is upskilling members of the communities in which it operates, with the overall aim of improving their lives. Through its training programmes, participants are...
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What Cape Town can learn from Windhoek on surviving droughts
Image source: [[www.pixabay.com]]</span>Human population growth, urbanisation, and climate change are all changing the world. To adapt, attitudes and behaviour must change and unsustainable...
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Strand Street Concourse undergoes major refit
Owned by the City of Cape Town, the Strand Street Concourse is undergoing a major refit. It is part of a broader network of underground walkways that serves as a critical pedestrian link between the...
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PPC and AfriSam still in merger talks
© Sasin Tipchai – [[www.123rf.com 123RF.com]]</span>Formal discussions on a potential merger between PPC and AfriSam are continuing, PPC said on Monday, 17 July.
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Award-winning innovation on the Van Zyl Spruit Bridge
Enterprises University of Pretoria (Enterprises UP) has once again been involved in an exciting, award-winning research project. Ms Sarah Skorpen, a senior lecturer in the Department of Civil...
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New vertical residences in Eindhoven to be designed by MVRDV
Rotterdam-based architecture firm MVRDV are known for their outlandish yet functional designs. This time, the firm won a competition to design new mixed-use towers in the heart of Rotterdam. Called...
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Prominent Paints launches first franchise store
Paint manufacturer Prominent Paints has launched its first franchise store in Midrand as it seeks to expand its distribution footprint. Like the other independent Prominent Paints stores, the Midrand...
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City announces u-turn on social housing
“We are in need of housing, that is why we're here,” said Woodstock resident Faghmeeda Desiree Ling. She was part of a group of supporters of Reclaim the City carrying placards and standing outside the...
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Abland, Tiber to develop mixed-use Sandton Gate precinct
Abland and Tiber have joined forces to develop the Sandton Gate precinct which will offer an office, retail, residential and lifestyle environment.
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African urbanisation must be smart and sustainable for cities to be habitable...
© Chin Leong Teoh – [[www.123rf.com 123RF.com]]</span>“The World Bank's latest report on African Cities states that improving conditions for people and businesses in Africa's cities is key to...
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Coega awards nine contracts worth R30m to SMMEs in Eastern Cape
SMME’s benefiting from Coega projects (L-R): Nandi Mpofu, Agnew Cabinets; Nolan Mathura, Ascon Civil Engineering; Laeeq Dolley, Rulasaqa Plumbing; Shaheed Nordien, YKW Projects; Thembisa Doda,...
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Cape Town bag manufacturer offers employees direct shareholding
With funding from the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), PP Excel officially opened its Cape Town plant this week, offering woven polypropylene block bottom cement and raffia bags for the...
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ArcelorMittal shares fall sharply after it warns of a widening loss
© Oleksiy Holubenko – [[www.123rf.com 123RF.com]]</span>ArcelorMittal SA's share price on the JSE plummeted on Thursday, 20 July, after SA's biggest steel producer flagged a widening in its...
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Why Tito Mboweni quit PPC's board
Tito Mboweni at the 2011 World Economic Forum on Africa – [[https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22087397 Wikimedia Commons]], CC BY-SA 2.0</span>Tito Mboweni's unexpected resignation...
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Swift progress being made with Kenya's Tatu City
Kenyan mixed-use real estate project Tatu City is rapidly taking shape, beating its own infrastructure deadlines. Located 24km from the city centre of Nairobi, Tatu City is being built from the ground...
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ArcelorMittal SA remains on the ropes
[[http://www.123rf.com/ © 123RF.com]]</span>The South African government's long delayed decision to impose higher tariffs on certain steel imports - effective from 1 July - has come too late to...
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Curtain-like exterior gives this new building a sense of always being in motion
The new Foster & Partners and Heatherwick Studio development, the Shanghai Bund Financial Centre, is located at the end of Shanghai's popular waterside street and designed to connect the old town...
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SA's property developers and buyers under pressure
Jacques van Embden, MD, Blok</span>South Africa has been downgraded to junk status by two ratings agencies, meaning that an even weaker rand, higher inflation, mounting petrol and food prices as...
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