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Macpherson conducts oversight visit at Limpopo Theatre site
- 28-03-2025
- SABC News
Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson has conducted an oversight visit at the construction site of the Limpopo Theatre, at the Bakone Malapa Open-Air Museum in Polokwane.
Macpherson and Public Works MECs from all nine ...
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Residents plead for urgent repairs as road conditions worsen
- 28-03-2025
- Roodepoort Record
Frustrated yet determined, residents remain hopeful that their pleas will be heard and that urgent intervention will prevent further damage and ensure safer, more accessible roads.
Residents are at their wits’ end as the worsening ...
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City responds Alberton’s road crisis: Key repairs set for completion by June 30
- 28-03-2025
- Alberton Record
With potholes and cracks posing a growing risk, the City of Ekurhuleni outlines which roads will be fixed—and when —following widespread complaints from residents.
On March 12, the Alberton Record published an article highlig...
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Construction of Newlands reservoir extended to June
- 28-03-2025
- Pretoria Rekord
Technical site conditions and material procurement setbacks have delayed the project.
The Parkmore Low-Level Reservoir construction project in Newlands in the east of Pretoria has been pushed out to June.
The project has fallen...
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VIDEO: R3.9 billion water purification facility ‘a first for Africa’
- 27-03-2025
- Vaal Weekblad
The R3.9 billion project outside Vereeniging is expected to bring an end to Gauteng's water woes and provide potable water to 2.4 million people.
The Minister of Water and Sanitation, Pemmy Majodina, visited the Zuikerbosch Water...
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Company takes over road maintenance task in troubled North West municipality
- 27-03-2025
- Sowetan Live
Tacet spends millions a year doing unpaid government's work
Transport and mining company Tacet says it spends hundreds of thousands of rand on maintaining roads in Lichtenburg as the struggling Ditsobotla local municipality in the No...
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Joburg plans to refurbish Metro Centre to tune of R800m, says mayor
- 27-03-2025
- News 24
- The City of Johannesburg has announced plans to renovate its Metro Centre building, which has been closed since September 2023 for safety reasons.
- The project will cost more than R800 million just to mak... Read More
Media Statement: Road Infrastructure Projects Must Benefit Poor Rural Communities in the Eastern Cape
- 27-03-2025
- Parliament of the Republic of South Africa
Parliament, Wednesday, 26 March 2025 – The Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Transport, Mr Donald Selamolela, said big infrastructure projects must benefit communities by creating sustainable jobs that revive and revitalise the econo...
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A nail in the coffin for load shedding in South Africa
- 26-03-2025
- Business Tech
Eskom has added a nail in the coffin for load shedding in South Africa by adding 800MW of new capacity to the national grid.
This significant step toward ending load shedding was achieved with the successful synchronisation of Kusile Pow...
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Repairs to pothole-riddled road in Bedfordview incomplete
- 26-03-2025
- Bedfordview and Edenvale News
Goatcher said the team arrived on March 13 at about 15:30 and only filled one pothole.
Following local business owner Debbie Goatcher’s complaint about the impact of the massive potholes near her business at Ben Rhydding Place, the...
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