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Image: Mohale Dam, part of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project - David Love, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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#BestofBiz 2025: Construction & Engineering

#BestofBiz 2025: Construction & Engineering

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Standing strong together: Why protecting your workers matters more than ever

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Vergelegen expands operations with new 4,226m² wine warehouse

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The Court of Appeal has dismissed the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority’s challenge to paying compensation to the Bobete community in Thaba-Tseka. Photo: Sechaba Mokhethi / GroundUp

Court orders Lesotho dams authority to pay 600 villagers compensation

Sechaba Mokhethi 24 Nov 2025

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BIBC's digital leap improves benefits for 30,000 employees

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Contract changes: When simple email signatures become legally binding

Danielle Giannico and Nikita Lalla 20 Nov 2025

Supported by Property Point, the 15 Black-owned SMEs presented their climate-resilient, socially inclusive solutions at the 2025 Green Building Convention in Cape Town. Image supplied.

How these 15 Black-owned SMEs highlight inclusive sustainability

17 Nov 2025

Source: GroundUp/Sechaba Mokhethi. A Qingjian Group Company plant in Qacha’s Nek during construction of the Makhaola Lerotholi Highway.

Lesotho community left in ruins by highway project

Sechaba Mokhethi 14 Nov 2025

Workers protested outside this project site in Illitha Park, Khayelitsha, since Monday over their unpaid wages. Photo: Vincent Lali / GroundUp

Workers shut down Cape Town construction project over unpaid wages

13 Nov 2025

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Workers are seen at a construction site at Protea Glen, a township of Johannesburg, South Africa, 19 March 2021. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko

Unemployment rate falls, helped by construction

Kopano Gumbi 12 Nov 2025

Cape Forest Products creates a sustainable timber future

Cape Forest Products creates a sustainable timber future

PG Bison 5 Nov 2025

From compliance to cooperation: What the GCC 2025 means for contractors and employers

From compliance to cooperation: What the GCC 2025 means for contractors and employers

Peter Barnard and Harshita Kapoor, Cox Yeats 31 Oct 2025

Force majeure lifted: $20bn Mozambique LNG project eyes restart

Reuters reporters 28 Oct 2025

Navigating changes to standard form construction contracts

Navigating changes to standard form construction contracts

Cox Yeats 24 Oct 2025

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Energy Performance Certificates: a new era for South African buildings

Martin Smith 23 Oct 2025

Raising standards in the construction industry: Blacklisting, accountability and fair process

Raising standards in the construction industry: Blacklisting, accountability and fair process

Richard Hoal, Mohamed Mota and Khanya Mgebisa, Cox Yeats 23 Oct 2025

Inaugural ACPM Summit 29-30 October 2025, Olive Convention Centre, Durban

Inaugural ACPM Summit 29-30 October 2025, Olive Convention Centre, Durban

MILLA SA 23 Oct 2025

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Contract workers march in Joburg demanding permanent jobs

Kimberly Mutandiro 21 Oct 2025

The new campus for Rivoni School of the Blind includes several large buildings. But work to finish the project has been stalled for most of this year. Photos: Thembi Siaga / GroundUp

IDT’s school project stalls as costs reach R198m

Thembi Siaga 3 Oct 2025

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Legal action looms over Mamelodi Magistrates’ Court construction fiasco

Warren Mabona 1 Oct 2025

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High Court ruling clarifies payment obligations amidst construction defects

Danielle Giannico, Joshua van Wyk, and Nikita Lalla 30 Sep 2025

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Survey hints at brighter year-end despite weak construction activity

30 Sep 2025

Source: Supplied. Simon Norton, Director: International Zinc Association (IZA) Africa.

#EXCLUSIVE: Safeguarding steel — zinc’s vital role in SA's construction sector

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