Opinion

SA’s lack of high-speed transportation for people and products negatively affects the environment and our roads. It’s time for change, writes Aubrey Lekwane Most of...

By Johnstone Oltetia There are two essential parts to achieving affordable housing in Kenya: building decent, low-cost homes, and developing a housing finance market that...

There are two essential parts to achieving affordable housing: building decent, low-cost homes, and developing a housing finance market that enables low-income earners to...

Ricardo Reboredo, Trinity College Dublin and Frances Brill, UCL Six years ago a major development was announced in South Africa. Billed as a game changer,...

Mobile technology could help South African construction companies to boost productivity as they seek to optimise efficiencies in the face of a long industry...

By Nathanial Matthews, King’s College London and Frank van Steenbergen, Utrecht University One of the fastest growing economies in Africa, Ethiopia, has an ambitious plan to cut a green, sustainable path...

• NATHANIAL MATTHEWS and FRANK VAN STEENBERGEN ONE of the fastest growing economies in Africa, Ethiopia, has an ambitious plan to cut a green, sustainable...

There’s a lively debate raging in South Africa about the extent to which renewables should replace coal, particularly given the threat of climate change. The country’s...

Development at any cost refrains from being development and is instead a mild form of oppression. With Kenya’s government debt to GDP in 2018 shadowing...

Ciara Walker is a senior cost consultant for Mace Group, an international consultancy and construction company.   Over the 50 years since independence, Kenya’s role...