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 Incomplete structures at Nancefield Primary School captured during the September 30, 2025, inspection.

No clarity on the progress of Nancefield Primary School

  • 11-02-2026
  • Soweto Urban

The councillor explained that overlapping Section 79 and PSC meetings limited oversight, leading to gaps in monitoring the project’s progress.

Nancefield Primary School remains incomplete despite previous communication from the Dep...

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The Naos-1 project’s commercial operation date is targeted for 2028.

Construction starts on 300MW solar, battery project

  • 11-02-2026
  • ITWeb

SOLA Group has achieved financial close on its Naos-1 Hybrid Solar and Battery Project, a 300MW (435MWp) solar PV facility with 660MWh of battery energy storage in the Free State.

Enabled by long-term power purchase agreements with Sasol...

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 A road closure sign. Photo: Pexels

PICS | Major N3 closures planned near Spaghetti Junction

  • 11-02-2026
  • The Witness

Motorists are advised of upcoming road closures as the N3 upgrades demolition team claim another bridge, old Candella Road Bridge.

Motorists travelling on the N3 near Durban are advised to plan, as temporary road closures will be impleme...

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Tecoma Park

Growthpoint Properties breaks ground on new logistics park in KZN

  • 11-02-2026
  • Property Wheel

Growthpoint Properties has started construction of its 36 830m2 multi-tenanted logistics park, Tecoma Park, in the Cornubia economic hub in KwaZulu-Natal.

The R392 million development, scheduled for completion in 2027, will comprise...

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Canal Plaza set to redefine green workspace in Cape Town's Century City

  • 10-02-2026
  • Bizcommunity.com

Abland Property Developers, in partnership with Gutsche Investment (Gimco), the Moolman Group, and Blue Dawn Capital, has unveiled Canal Plaza, a premium-grade office development in Cape Town’s Century City.

Designed to meet growin...

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 Roads at the Oriental complex have become dilapidated.

Lekwa is repairing roads

  • 10-02-2026
  • Ridge Times

R6m was allocated to road maintenance for the current financial year, which ends on February 28.

The Lekwa Local Municipality has been working to fix several stretches of road across town since January 6. According to Lubabalo Majenge, s...

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The Maila village old-age home in 25 January 2021. Looters have made off with everything of value, leaving only a roofless, rotting skeleton.

Corruption-riddled Lottery projects incomplete despite promised R65-million

  • 10-02-2026
  • Ground Up

After three years of no progress, their fate is still to be decided according to the NLC

  • R65-million was allocated over three years ago to complete unfinished facilities that include old-age homes and drug rehabs....

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Siobhan Muller

Bus Rapid project completion date extended to March

  • 10-02-2026
  • Pretoria Rekord

Councillors and residents continue to raise concerns about safety, traffic disruptions, and the economic impact on businesses, while the project appears to be at a standstill.

The Tshwane metro has confirmed that the Bus Rapid Transit (B...

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Muizenberg’s beach’s iconic beach huts are more than a century old, with origins in the early 1900s.

Muizenberg’s iconic beach huts get heritage-faithful makeover during beachfront upgrade

  • 09-02-2026
  • NovaNews

CAPE TOWN – Residents can look forward to seeing Muizenberg Beach’s historic beach huts undergoing a makeover while the City of Cape Town’s beachfront upgrades are underway.

Angela Gorman, chairperson of the Beach Hut T...

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Tertius Simmers, Western Cape Minister of Infrastructure, said the province is accelerating delivery across priority projects in its R131bn infrastructure pipeline.

How the R131 billion infrastructure pipeline will create jobs in the Western Cape

  • 09-02-2026
  • Cape Argus

Thousands of jobs are expected to flow from a R131 billion infrastructure pipeline as the Western Cape steps up delivery on major projects spanning health, education, transport, water, energy and economic development.

The Infrastructure ...

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