# Johannesburg en Kaapstad is volgens ‘n opname onder die wêreldstede waar datasentrums die goedkoopste opgerig kan word. Ander Afrika-stede op die lys sluit in Lagos in Nigerië en Nairobi in Kenia. Navorsing deur Turner & Townsend skryf dit toe aan laer arbeidskoste, toegang tot grond en verbeterde plaaslike voorsieningskettings, wat toenemende belangstelling van beleggers […]
# Public Works and Infrastructure minister Dean Macpherson has warned construction companies against misrepresenting their capabilities to secure higher industry grading. Briefing the media in Pretoria, he says inflated grades give businesses an unfair advantage and exposes public projects to unqualified contractors. Macpherson announced the removal of Moriel Infrastructure Group from its register on October […]
# SAFTU sê die herverkiesing van die Brasiliaanse president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is ‘n oorwinning vir werkers, armes, inheemse bevolkingsgroepe en almal wat hul demokratiese regte en maatskaplike vooruitgang verdedig het. Die linkse leier is die eerste president sedert die terugkeer na burgerlike bewind in 1985 wat wen nadat hy die eerste stemronde […]
# Die Verkiesingskommissie mik daarna om al die stembriewe teen Vrydag gereed te hê vir volgende week se plaaslike regeringsverkiesing. Die hoofverkiesingsbeampte, Sy Mamabolo, het aan eNCA gesê miljoene stembriewe moet herdruk word ná die Konstitusionele Hof se uitspraak ten gunste van die ANC. Die party het die uitsluiting van sy kandidate betwis nadat kandidatelyste […]
# BOSA leader Mmusi Maimane lodged a complaint with Public Protector Kholeka Gcaleka over the death of a 10-year-old girl electrocuted by exposed wiring in Meriting Phase 2, Lenasia South in Gauteng. Maimane visited the settlement on last Friday. He says residents have lived without formal electricity for years despite a 2019 electrification project for […]
# Public Works and Infrastructure minister Dean Macpherson says government is tightening oversight of the construction industry to hold contractors accountable. He says 60 contractors have been removed from the National Register of Contractors since last month, compared with just one blacklisting between 2002 and 2024. Macpherson has also announced that a further 15 contractors […]
# A study has ranked Johannesburg and Cape Town among the world’s most cost-competitive cities for data centre construction. Other African cities include Lagos in Nigeria and Nairobi in Kenya. Research by professional services firm Turner and Townsend attributes this to lower labour costs, access to land and improving local supply chains leading to investor […]
# The Electoral Commission aims to have all ballot papers ready by Friday ahead of next week’s local government elections. Chief electoral offical Sy Mamabolo told eNCA the reprinting of millions of ballots follows a Constitutional Court ruling in favour of the ANC. The party challenged the exclusion of its candidates whose lists were not […]
# The Human Sciences Research Council is calling on all voters to participate in the countrywide Election Satisfaction Survey. The survey will be conducted by interviewers stationed at selected voting stations across the country on behalf of the Electoral Commission on the day of the local government elections next Wednesday. HSRC’s spokesperson Alfred Thutloa says […]
