"South Africa's road network has a pivotal role to play in the country's economic recovery but the condition of some of our roads are preventing this."
Eskom Development Foundation CEO, Cecil Ramonotsi, shares some insight into the reinvention of small businesses during turbulent times...
Cecil Ramonotsi 6 Apr 2021
The South African National Roads Agency SOC Limited has announced the progress made on Routine Road Maintenance projects across Gauteng's three metropolitan areas of Ekurhuleni, Johannesburg and Tshwane.
By re-injecting gas revenues into the economy and facilitating infrastructural development nation-wide, Mozambique can realise its goal of becoming a regional tourism leader...
Charné Hundermark 8 Feb 2021
At the end of an unprecedented year, it is clear that the disruption of our daily lives due to the Covid-19 pandemic is set to continue for the foreseeable future.
As a sustainably farmed resource that stores carbon, wood is increasingly being used not only in the built environment for houses and high-rises but also for its cellulose, lignin and sugars...
Egyptian president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has been named this year's winner of the Babacar Ndiaye Great Road Builder Award...
Miners should use the lag between the opening of surface mines and the delivery of products wisely, by preparing smart stockpiles, internal roadway systems and traffic separation measures to deal quickly and safely with the tide when markets reopen...
Sanral's routine road maintenance (RRM) and toll operations have been declared an essential service by government and will therefore continue during the lockdown period...
A road building initiative on the Free State KwaZulu-Natal border will offer local SMME's significant opportunities for new business, provide important job creation within local communities and develop skills through partnerships with established construction companies.
This year will be an epic fight for survival for many businesses as numerous socio-economic factors come into play that will further their efforts...
The Volta River project in Ghana was a symbolic embodiment of progress, modernisation, and development...
Iain Jackson 26 Sep 2019
The alarming state of South Africa's paved and gravel road maintenance backlogs has been revealed...
Periodic maintenance on the R67 between Fort Beaufort and Seymour in the Eastern Cape is improving road safety for pedestrians and motorists...
One of the fastest growing economies in Africa, Ethiopia, has an ambitious plan to cut a green, sustainable path to becoming a middle-income country by 2025...
Nathanial Matthews and Frank van Steenbergen 31 Oct 2018
Earlier this year, it was widely reported that Zambia had passed a statutory ruling which instructed firms (affecting mostly mining), to transport at least 30% of its heavy and bulk freight volumes by rail...
Benji Coetzee 4 Jul 2018
President John Magufuli has approved a proposal to upgrade five game reserves into national parks to widen the country's tourism scope...
The country is currently experiencing a palpable positive mood of change since the recent changes in government...
Njombo Lekula 17 Apr 2018
The South African government recently reported that around 6.5 million job opportunities have been created through its Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) since 2004...
Tessa Hochfeld, Lauren Stuart, Sophie Plagerson 19 Jun 2017
Cape Town's Transport and Urban Development Authority (TDA) now has eight all-female road repair teams...
Potholes are the bane of many motorists who take to roads across South Africa. The persistent rains in recent months across large parts of the northern provinces have again led to frustration...
Louw Kannemeyer 6 Apr 2017
A R120 million community development and SMME training programme has been rolled out by SANRAL...
Bakwena Platinum Corridor Concessionaire has invested in a R1bn schedule of maintenance and construction projects scheduled for 2017...
Sanral has prepared 6,286 summonses in a bid to recover R6.2bn in outstanding e-toll debt from Gauteng motorists and is gearing up for its legal fight with Outa over an e-toll test case...
Karl Gernetzky 24 Jan 2017
The South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) plans to achieve a "balanced funding portfolio with fuel tax-based revenue and toll income"...
Linda Ensor 22 Dec 2016
Small, medium and micro-enterprises continue to benefit from SANRAL funded projects in the Southern Cape...
The South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL) is hosting tender training workshops to help SMMEs create sustainable enterprises...
SANRAL used awareness around the clean-up and recycling initiatives in support of National Clean-Up and Recycle Week to highlight the work it does as part of its Routine Road Maintenance operations...
The South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL) is adopting two new road materials engineering specifications for the construction of the national road network and other roads under its jurisdiction...
The South African National Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL) has opened a new engineering materials laboratory that will see road materials from across the Eastern Cape now tested in Port Elizabeth...
Much has been written over the past couple of years around the topic of smart cities. The utopian vision of the smart city often involves carefully orchestrated...
Lionel Moyal 26 Feb 2016
Using the fuel levy to replace Gauteng's e-toll system will cause services to the poor to suffer, Parliament's transport committee said...
Thulani Gqirana, News24 27 Jan 2016
With one of the highest traffic-accident fatality rates in the world, the need for increased driver attention and vehicle maintenance is very clear...
Judges Ashley Binns-Ward and Nolwazi Boqwana set aside the approvals that would enable SANRAL to toll sections of...
The City of Cape Town's transport authority, Transport for Cape Town (TCT), has introduced its first all-female roads repair team, based at the Ndabeni roads depot...
There are currently 32 engineering projects with a combined value of R2.2bn taking place on the national road network in the Eastern Cape...
New owners are often taken by surprise at the additional costs that come with a home and need to carefully consider their budget before becoming over-indebted with unnecessary expenses such as new furniture.
The South African National Roads Agency Ltd (SANRAL) has announced that an amount R1.66bn is currently being invested on the upgrade of the N7 corridor between Cape Town and Malmesbury...
Volvo Cars has joined forces with the Norwegian Public Roads Administration and the Swedish Transport Administration in an attempt to enable cars to share information about road conditions...
Louis Berger, the global professional services corporation, is part of an international consortium that was recently awarded a €2.36m ($2.71m) European Union-funded technical assistance contract for road maintenance in Gabon...
Anglo American, in partnership with the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) and the Investment Climate Facility for Africa (ICF), recently launched a capacity building programme at eleven municipalities across five provinces in South Africa.
A capacity building programme to strengthen institutional capacity in the areas of personnel skills and administrative systems has been launched at eleven municipalities across five provinces in South Africa.
The South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) believes its jurisdiction over the proclaimed national road network trumps the Cape Town city council's wish that the Winelands toll road project on the N1 and N2 be halted.
Linda Ensor 21 Aug 2014
Ten years of information on the country's logistics costs and efficiency is now available with the launch of the 10th State of Logistics survey for South Africa.
The company that brought us e-tolls stands accused of mowing and killing rare and endangered plant species growing along national roads.
Bobby Jordan 18 Mar 2014
Roads Agency Limpopo (RAL) has appointed a private firm to help speed up payment of R70m it owes to service providers, the province said on Monday (26 August).
Sanral's spending on advertising has increased 200% in the past two years, Transport Minister Ben Martins indicated in a parliamentary reply.
Ongoing poor maintenance of Joburg's decaying suburban road infrastructure poses a real threat to the city's residential property values - particularly in prime areas.
Ronald Ennik 5 Jun 2013
A proposed toll system in the winelands in the Western Cape will not impact on the poor people of South Africa, the SA National Road Agency Limited (Sanral) said on Sunday (19 May).