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Jan 16, 2025 | 
bizcommunity.com | Olebogeng Manhe |Wynand Botha |Lindsey Schutters
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Despite a turbulent 2024 marked by economic uncertainty and shifting market demands, leading South African brickmaker Corobrik has managed to stay ahead of the curve.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
engineeringnews.co.za | Olebogeng Manhe |Sheila Barradas |Martin Creamer |Marleny Arnoldi
By Olebogeng Manhe, Chairman of the Gap Infrastructure Corporation (GIC)Ten of the world’s most dangerous professions are construction jobs. Highway maintenance in particular ranks alarmingly high, mainly due to the unique set of hazards it presents. In response, construction and infrastructure development companies and partners in the public sector urgently need to engage to actively seek and implement solutions to protect the public and our workers.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | Wynand Botha |Lindsey Schutters |Olebogeng Manhe
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Before any project breaks ground, it's vital to make sure everything's up to code. In South Africa, that means following the South African National Standards (SANS) 10400. These rules are all about keeping buildings safe, healthy, and sustainable. To comply, we need to know the rules inside and out, and everyone on the team needs to be qualified and experienced. Wynand Botha, Associate Director at BDO South Africa.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | Olebogeng Manhe
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To solve South Africa’s dismaying youth unemployment challenge we must end the pervasive narrative that South Africans, and particularly young unemployed South Africans, are reliant on the government. It’s quite simply not true, as a recent African Response survey has revealed.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | Lindsey Schutters |Olebogeng Manhe
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Bell Equipment announced that it will delist from the JSE after accepting a takeover offer from IA Bell and Company (IAB), a major shareholder and investment holding company led by the Bell family. IAB, which already holds 70.13% of Bell Equipment's shares, has offered to buy out the remaining minority shareholders for R53 per share, a 71% premium to the closing price on 11 July 2024, the last trading day before the offer was announced.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | Aa-isha Hassiem |Olebogeng Manhe
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South Africa's tough economic environment is brightened by the job prospects in the wind energy sector. The nation saw unemployment inch up to 32.1% by Q4 of 2023, with notable employment declines in community services, construction, agriculture, trade, and manufacturing, as reported by Statistics South Africa.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | Olebogeng Manhe |Lindsey Schutters
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South Africa is grappling with a profound crisis of youth unemployment, with the issue most severely impacting workers who lack formal skills. The construction and infrastructure development industry plays a key role in job creation for this demographic, often hiring lower-skilled and disadvantaged individuals from the local communities where projects take place.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
crown.co.za | Olebogeng Manhe
By Olebogeng Manhe, Chairman of the Gap Infrastructure Corporation (GIC)
South Africa is faced with a severe youth unemployment crisis, disproportionately affecting underskilled workers. A key driver of employment in this space is the construction and infrastructure development sector, which regularly employs lower-skilled, disadvantaged workers from the local communities in which projects are based.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | Sean Avery |Olebogeng Manhe
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The Department of Water and Sanitation has announced the postponement of the emergency rehabilitation of parts of the Lower Sundays River Canal, which was planned to start from Monday, 10 June to 15 August 2024. The department said the postponement of the project is due to the recent heavy rainfall that resulted in flooding in various areas of Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality (NMBM), which may have compromised infrastructure, including water supply systems.
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May 6, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.co.ke | Sean Avery |Olebogeng Manhe |Jess Vujovic |Angus McDowall
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Floods in Kenya killed at least 169 people between March and April 2024. The most catastrophic of these deaths occurred after a flash flood swept through a rural village killing 42 people. Death and destruction have also occurred in the capital, Nairobi, a stark reminder of the persistent failure to keep abreast of the city’s rapid urbanisation needs.
