The purpose of the latest Dialogue on Greening Infrastructure was to acquaint stakeholders with the imperative for a greener future and the opportunities for new green industries and economies that are at the core of enabling and sustaining humanity’s existence.   The dialogue was attended by the Deputy Minister of Rural Development and Land
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The latest Dialogue presented the results of the third Infrastructure Inputs Monitoring Project which provides a comprehensive overview of infrastructure demand and supply in South Africa. The IIMP was initiated in 2006 to assess the impact of the increase in public sector demand in the supply for key infrastructure inputs. It is specifically meant to
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Cabinet made a decision in December 2010 to discontinue the process of restructuring the Electricity Distribution Industry (EDI) through the establishment of Regional Electricity Distributors (REDs).   In response EDI Holdings has wound down its operations and closed as of the 31 March 2011.  As such the Department of Energy will review the entire electricity value
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The first dialogue in this series took place in June 2009, the topic being the Municipal Infrastructure Investment (MIIF). At that dialogue, the key findings of then MIIF Round 5 analysis were debated. Briefly, those findings included that significant capital expenditure would be required over ten years if the infrastructure service backlogs are to be
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Urban regeneration has been a recurrent theme of urban development discourse in South Africa for many years. Thus inner cities in many parts of the country have become the focus of dedicated strategies aimed at reversing their decline. Special institutional structures have been created within municipalities to aid in this task for example the Johannesburg
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In his 2010 State of the Nation Address, the President reiterated the importance of the national infrastructure investment programme: “Underpinning our strategy for ecomomic recovery and growth, is our capital investment programme.  Over the next three years government will spend R846 billion on public infrastructure”. A large portion of this spend will be in the
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The challenges Municipalities face in adaptation and mitigation of the effects of climate change on their Infrastructure. Governments from around the world met in December to discuss policy and the way forward in dealing with the effects of Climate Change (Conference of the Parties -15 of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen). 
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The focus of this dialogue is on the anticipated legacy impacts of the infrastructure provided, both directly and indirectly, to support the hosting of the FIFA 2010 World Cup tournament.Mega events do hold all sorts of connotations and clearly instil hope for host nations. For South Africa and the African continent at this historical juncture,
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The Constitution allocates municipalities five over-arching functions: to govern in a democratic manner;  to ensure the provision of basic services; to promote social and economic development;  to promote a safe and healthy environment; and to encourage community participation in local government. INPUT DOCUMENTS Dialogue Report Source Documents Presentations / Perspectives Dialogue Documents Media Coverage: As
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Protests over poor public service delivery have soared this year. While service delivery remains a critical issue an equally critical issue is the increasing proportion of deteriorating infrastructure, often resulting in a poor and often unacceptable quality of services. The CSIR in a study undertaken on the ‘State of municipal infrastructure in South Africa and
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