NEWS RELATED TO infrastructure

Bad governance costs lives

News

Taps to run dry again: Joburg residents warned to brace for water throttling

South Africa’s infrastructure backlog demands joint responsibility

Crime

Foreigners arrested for cable theft, two electrocuted in Eldorado Park

Perhaps the glass isn’t half empty

Gauteng department aims for 20 new schools by 2029, but ‘it is not enough’

Dozens of Gauteng schools still contain asbestos years after deadline

79% of Public Works projects delayed costing public R2.9 billion, says Macpherson

Bold infrastructure reforms announced to lift SA onto a ‘higher path’

Steel Federation hopeful Operation Vulindlela will bring change

Retired engineers, artisans volunteer to fix eThekwini’s infrastructure

News

Joburg’s decline: These pics show the fall of SA’s richest city within 10 years

MEC cuts out middleman for cheaper services

R160 million and still no school: Nancefield’s construction woes

PICS: Gauteng’s abandoned projects ruined by ‘challenges’ and vandalism

Government has a plan to deal with defaulting contractors

Average delay on municipal infrastructure projects? Nearly two years

Sustainable solutions required to solve SA’s water challenges, says expert

Crime

Eskom workers and contractor arrested for stealing fuel oil from Camden Power Station

Four men sentenced after theft halts services at Transnet’s rail station in Eastern Cape

Personal Finance

Should government use pensions to fund its projects?

Infrastructure investment is key to steel industry growth, says Seifa

Macpherson declares war on ‘construction mafia’

Manufacturing experts urge SA to turn more raw materials into products

ArcelorMittal keeps two plants open, saves 3 500 jobs

South Africa’s infrastructure needs a boost

Gauteng water crisis raises alarms amid infrastructure decay

City of Johannesburg capital expenditure budget nothing but a ‘cut and paste’

Tshwane’s financial outlook upgraded by Moody’s amid political divide

Joburg puts power and water into crumbling hostels

SA needs trillions to achieve infrastructure goals, says Ramaphosa

Solar-powered charging network deal inked for South Africa

News

Electricity thief electrocuted in Roodepoort, power disrupted

Bulk water supply infrastructure collapse in Mpumalanga town

Pietermaritzburg’s Post Office shame

A VIEW OF THE WEEK: New dawns of darkness ahead?

Water crisis looms: SA could be out of water within 7 years

South Africa’s economic woes: The road less travelled may work

A South African Thanksgiving: Politicians prepare to dig in

Crime

Seven jailed for 15 years over R700k cable theft

MTBPS: Godongwana tries to tackle municipal debt, electricity and Transnet

Infrastructure budget cuts would be ‘devastating’ for the country

SA’s crumbling infrastructure and the urgent call for order and law

Cape Town road closed for at least 12 month after parts washed away

Crime

Cable thieves targeting Cape Town highway lights

Government has plan to protect infrastructure – but why only now?

Soshanguve train station stripped bare and abandoned

Watch: Increased load shedding no reason to fear grid collapse, says Eskom

News

Power crisis, ICT infrastructure theft threaten SA’s investment gains – Ramaphosa

Don’t blame apartheid for SA’s woes

Joburg’s potholes cost taxpayers R24 million in claims in just three months

Technology and Science

Parks versus people? Challenges facing Tshwane’s green infrastructure efforts

News

SAPS constable arrested for stealing Transnet railway tracks

‘Nearly R200bn strategic infrastructure projects are under construction’

Engineering body issues dire warning over collapsing public infrastructure

Crime

Men found stealing railway tracks nabbed in sting operation

Sandton Rea Vaya project to be completed in 2024

Ramaphosa: Million more people employed reason for ‘cautious hope’

News

Survey recommends SA govt tax the rich, help the poor

South Africa doesn’t need new cities, it needs to focus on fixing what it has

Personal Finance

SA faces R4.8trn infrastructure investment gap by 2030

Health

Pics: Your tax money rotting away at Gauteng’s abandoned, incomplete Covid hospitals

SA’s poor infrastructure costing farmers R8 billion per year

New dark cloud over infrastructure investment programme

Court orders GDE to fix school where pupil was electrocuted 5 years ago

Government criticised for R595bn ‘pie in the sky’ infrastructure projects

Infrastructure project award delays knock civil construction industry confidence

Prasa project ‘on world-class track’, says CEO

How private sector can help with SA’s infrastructure

Mboweni ‘dreaming’ if he thinks e-tolling will work – Outa’s Duvenage

Fixing Prasa will be a long haul

Rail system can’t just chug along

More than R300m budgeted for Roodepoort infrastructure projects

Private sector needs more policy certainty before investing in saving SA

Govt, SOEs ‘underspent over R140bn on infrastructure in 4 years’