Building & Construction News

WATCH: Pothole City: Brackendowns resident upset over declining road infrastructure

• 12-01-2026
• Alberton Record

The Alberton Record was taken through Neville and Marilyn Streets, in Brackendowns, as examples of the suburb’s deteriorating road infrastructure.

Residents of Brackendowns, in Alberton, are growing increasingly frustrated as potho...

Golden Acre entering her next era

• 12-01-2026
• Mail & Guardiam

Cape Town has a knack for reinventing familiar buildings. Whether it’s heritage conversions or office-to-residential projects, I am obsessed with how the city transforms the narrative of concrete. 

Recently, I tweeted about th...

South Africa’s wind energy boom faces major skills shortage as 44GW target looms

• 12-01-2026
• Cape Business News

SOUTH Africa’s renewable energy transition is gaining momentum, but a critical challenge is emerging: whether the country can develop enough skilled workers to build, operate and maintain the next wave of large-scale wind projects.

Cape Town Infrastructure Vision 2026: R120 billion industrial boom

• 12-01-2026
• Cbn

AS Cape Town enters 2026 on the back of record-breaking infrastructure spending in 2025, Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis is making an audacious pitch: the Mother City is where Africa’s next manufacturing boom begins.

Cape Town has set a r...

Upper Highway residents to meet over Inanda Rd

• 09-01-2026
• Highway Mail

The areas' ratepayers' association says potholes on the road have worsened whilst a rehabilitation project is yet to commence.

UPPER Highway residents are planning an urgent meeting for Saturday, January 10, to discuss the po...

Major shopping mall in South Africa selling for R600 million

• 09-01-2026
• Business Tech

Hosken Consolidated Investments (HCI) is selling its 65% stake in Whale Coast Village Mall in Hermanus for R600 million.

The mall, which has 96 stores, is a premier shopping destination situated in Hermanus, southeast of Cape Town.<...

Incomplete, ‘shoddy’ repairs pose road hazard in Umbilo

• 09-01-2026
• Berea Mail

Umbilo residents say incomplete burst pipe repairs have left their road damaged, unsafe and inaccessible for more than a week.

HAVING lived on Hereward Road, Umbilo, for more than 25 years, this year’s New Year’s festivities ...

ENGIE named preferred bidder for 240 MW solar project

• 09-01-2026
• Energize

Multinational energy company ENGIE has been named a preferred bidder under South Africa’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme Bid Window 7 for its 240 MW Corona solar PV project in the Free State.

Mokgoba community needs help to complete Crocodile River Road project

• 08-01-2026
• Benoni City Times

To help, contact the Crocodile River Community Development Forum on 0764025635 or 078 368 5444.

Battered by potholes and clogged with coffee-coloured water, the Crocodile River Road has become a daily obstacle for residents of Mokgoba an...

Rustenburg residents bypass municipality to fix crumbling roads

• 08-01-2026
• Eyewitnessnews

Whether it’s cutting grass, fixing broken roads, or clearing waste, communities have been forced to handle these tasks themselves.

Some residents in Rustenburg are taking matters into their own hands, repairing damaged roads and in...