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Petru Saal Gauteng residents were urged on Thursday, 1 February, not to jeopardise their own water supply by sending truck-loads of donated water to the drought-stricken Western Cape...read |
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![Cape Town International Airport to get new runway](https://biz-file.com/c/1802/427964-120x120.jpg?2) | Cape Town International Airport has received the green light from the Department of Environmental Affairs for the construction of the airport's new realigned runway... read |
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![2018 Architecture ZA festival to focus on new opportunities in shaping our cities](https://biz-file.com/c/1801/427497-120x120.jpg?2) | This year's Architecture ZA (#AZA18) festival is calling for participatory action from those involved in the built environment on issues around how we shape our cities collectively... read |
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![A 3D model of a development scenario in Brisbane's West End produced using ESRI's CityEngine program. Author supplied](https://biz-file.com/c/1801/427198-120x120.jpg?2) | Yan Liu, Iderlina Mateo-Babiano and Sebastien Darc New technologies offer new possibilities for planning and designing cities... read |
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![Image source:](https://biz-file.com/c/1802/427554-120x120.jpg?2) | Global steel giant ArcelorMittal said Wednesday, 31 January, that its net profit more than doubled last year as the worldwide market for steel improved... read |
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![Volume of cement PPC sold in 2017 falls, but it remains ahead of competitors](https://biz-file.com/c/1802/427972-120x120.jpg?2) | Robert Laing The volume of cement PPC sold in the nine months to end-December fell about 2% - half the overall South African cement industry's 4% decline, the group said in an operating update on Friday, 2 January... read |
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![Smart cities need to be more human, so we're creating Sims-style virtual worlds](https://biz-file.com/c/1802/428038-120x120.jpg?2) | Nick Malleson and Alison Heppenstall Huge quantities of networked sensors have appeared in cities across the world in recent years. These include cameras and sensors that count the number of passers-by, devices to sense air quality, traffic flow detectors, and even beehive monitors... read |
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![City's digital technology 'request for ideas' closes 16 February](https://biz-file.com/c/1802/427718-120x120.jpg?2) | The City of Cape Town's call for submissions on how it can make use of digital technology and data to enhance its performance and enable residents and businesses to engage more actively with the city, closes on 16 February 2018... read |
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![Image source:](https://biz-file.com/c/1801/427311-120x120.jpg?2) | Odette Parfitt The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality is planning to embark on an electricity generation project that will see selected consumers across the metro equipped with solar panels - at no cost to either party... read |
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![Filmmaker Michael Uwemedimo, one of the keynote speakers at the African Centre for Cities International Urban Conference, spoke about the violent 'clearing' of almost two million people and their waterfront houses in Port Harcourt, Nigeria to make way for development. Photo: Andy Mkosi](https://biz-file.com/c/1802/427984-120x120.jpg?2) | Sean O'Toole The use of data to manage the world's growing housing crisis came into focus during the second day of the African Centre for Cities International Urban Conference at the University of Cape Town... read |
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![Could Cape Town see its green waste drop-off sites closed?](https://biz-file.com/c/1802/427649-120x120.jpg?2) | NEWSWATCH: According to a tweet from organic compost producer Reliance Compost, Cape Town could see its green waste drop-off sites closed... read |
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![Delegates at the African Centre for Cities International Urban Conference currently underway at the University of Cape Town. Photo: Andy Mkosi](https://biz-file.com/c/1802/428009-120x120.jpg?2) | Sean O'Toole Why is Cape Town experiencing a water crisis? How does one answer that without ignoring history and simplifying the facts?... read |
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![The Spheres, by Ron Cogswell, Flickr: /maertsotohp/ni/42172954983/50N@50511722/sotohp/moc.rkcilf.www//:sptthbRev('brev-5c3e6bc1-6a4c-4cf8-9f01-25fc2a3f0aab', '>a/\"/maertsotohp/ni/42172954983/50N;46#&50511722/sotohp/moc.rkcilf.www//:sptth:otliam"=ferh a, CC BY 2.0](https://biz-file.com/c/1801/427426-120x120.jpg?2) | Internet giant Amazon on Monday, 29 January, opened its plant-packed The Spheres buildings in its home city of Seattle... read |
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![China Crisis via - The Berg River Dam, located near Franschhoek, is one of the principal dams in the Western Cape Water Supply System.](https://biz-file.com/c/1802/428088-120x120.jpg?2) | Due to a decline in agricultural water usage, Day Zero has been pushed back to mid-May 2018. Agricultural usage is likely to drop significantly over the next weeks... read |
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![Xoliswa Hlongwane, CFO designate at uShaka Marine World](https://biz-file.com/c/1802/427608-120x120.png?2) | Xoliswa Hlongwane is about to take over as uShaka Marine World's chief financial officer (CFO). She shares her insights on working in the public sector... read |
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![Global unemployment down but working poverty rampant: UN](https://biz-file.com/c/1801/426428-120x120.jpg?2) | The global unemployment rate is expected to tick down in 2018, the United Nations said Monday, 22 January, while warning that far too many workers still live in desperate poverty... read |
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