According to a new World Bank report, investments of 4.5% of GDP will allow developing countries to achieve their infrastructure-related Sustainable Development Goals...
18 hours ago
According to a new World Bank report, investments of 4.5% of GDP will allow developing countries to achieve their infrastructure-related Sustainable Development Goals...
Technology has made a tremendous difference in the world, in areas as diverse as health and education, and pretty much everything in between...
Technology has made a tremendous difference in the world, in areas as diverse as health and education, and pretty much everything in between...
Ross Harvey 1 day ago
The Heineken South Africa Foundation is partnering with the World Wildlife Fund For Nature (WWF-SA) South Africa to help informal and underserved communities better manage their freshwater resources...
Heineken South Africa 2 days ago
Applicants from across Africa are invited to enter the 2020 edition of the Zayed Sustainability Prize which rewards innovation, impact and inspiration in the sustainable development space...
14 Feb 2019
Many people depend on the natural ebb and flow of unrestricted rivers that swell with water in the rainy season and wane in the dry season. When the natural flow is changed, people and ecosystems are affected...
Matthew McCartney and Fritz Kleinschroth 14 Feb 2019
Brenda Martin, CEO of the South African Wind Energy Association, has welcomed the investor clarity for the SA energy sector provided by President Cyril Ramaphosa in his recent State of the Nation Address...
13 Feb 2019
On the long-running television series Star Trek, the characters were knowledge workers and did not seem to worry about food, lodging or acceptance...
Sylvie Albert 11 Feb 2019
After more than three decades of talk about the potential of building green, we've still failed to change the way we design and construct buildings...
Meg Holden and Rebecca Holt 6 Feb 2019
It's estimated that by 2050, global aviation could account for over 22% of all global carbon dioxide emissions due to rapid growth in air traffic...
25 Jan 2019
Excelling at this year's Zayed Sustainability Prize annual awards ceremony, African innovators took the top prize in three out of five categories including Energy, Food and Global High Schools...
24 Jan 2019
Why has the world continued to increase consumption of plastic materials when at the same time, environmental and human health concerns over their use have grown?
Margaret Sobkowicz 17 Jan 2019
Now with almost 16,000 desalination plants worldwide quenching a growing thirst for freshwater, the technology is also creating a salty dilemma...
15 Jan 2019
2018 was a year of paradox. The scientific signals of global warming are significantly stronger. The frequency, intensity and cost of weather impacts escalates. But the backtracking and general malaise...
Simon Clarke 7 Jan 2019
Heartwood Properties has partnered with SolarSaver in converting its Willow Wood Office Park in Fourways, Gauteng, to solar...
14 Dec 2018
Manila's Earl Patrick Forlales has won the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Cities for our Future competition with an idea that will help solve the city's slum housing crisis...
14 Dec 2018
Companies spent an estimated R9.7bn on corporate social investment (CSI) in South Africa in 2018 - a 7% year-on-year increase in rand terms (2017: R9.1bn)...
Trialogue 11 Dec 2018
In November 2018, the Sishen Iron Ore Company - Community Development Trust (SIOC-cdt) contracted Citizen Surveys to conduct a needs analysis within the five local municipalities in which it operates...
MANGO-OMC 11 Dec 2018
The Hot 91.9FM Christmas Wish will launch on Mansfield in the Morning from 10-21 December...
Hot 91.9FM 6 Dec 2018
For the second year in a row, the University of Cape Town (UCT) has taken top honours in both the Greenovate Property Awards and the Greenovate Engineering Awards 2018...
4 Dec 2018
President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to launch the Atlantis Special Economic Zone (SEZ) this week...
3 Dec 2018
Most African countries have made strong progress in achieving major development goals in the last few years. Despite this much needed progress, the past decade has seen flooding damage or destroy much of this same infrastructure,..
Olalekan Adekola 3 Dec 2018
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently warned that global warming could reach 1.5? as early as 2030...
Hussein Dia 30 Nov 2018
Encompassing swathes of Ethiopia, South Sudan and Kenya, the Omo-Turkana Basin is one of the oldest landscapes in the world that is known to have been inhabited by Homo sapiens...
Timothy Clack 29 Nov 2018
South Africa's Constitution protects everyone's right to access adequate housing...
Soraya Beukes 27 Nov 2018
The old Conradie Hospital site has been dormant since 2002. Heralded by Western Cape Premier Helen Zille, the plan for the site includes state subsidised housing...
26 Nov 2018
The 21st century has brought a new range of urban challenges, compelling cities to become more resilient to the shocks and stresses which they face...
Craig Kesson 22 Nov 2018
About 50 protesters gathered at the corner of Buiten and Buitengracht Street on Tuesday, 20 November. Their aim was to prevent a crane from entering Bo-Kaap...
Aidan Jones and Ashraf Hendricks 21 Nov 2018
The redevelopment of Johannesburg's Jewel City is now underway...
20 Nov 2018
About 23% of people living in Sub-Saharan Africa don't have access to toilets while 31% with toilets use one's that aren't connected to a formal sanitation system...
Mooyoung Han and Shervin Hashemi 19 Nov 2018
The final two sessions of the 2020 track of AfricaCom - focused on how the 'smart feature phone' will revolutionise the digital landscape in Africa and what will happen when 1bn Africans are connected to the internet...
Leigh Andrews 19 Nov 2018