Feasibility underway

THE North West government yesterday unveiled an economic development initiative based on the example of Gauteng's Blue IQ, and aimed at boosting the province's growth to 8% a year.

Between 5,000 and 8,000 jobs could be lost in the civil engineering industry this year, industry sources said.

Draft construction industry development regulations to boost black economic empowerment

The South African Water Affairs and Forestry Department and the Mpumalanga Government have initiated a 70 million rand project to construct a water pipeline

Outlook for 2004

Government says it is pulling out all the stops to secure SA's largest single foreign direct investment to date ahead of a meeting with representatives from Alcan and Pechiney in Gauteng today.

Property loan stock company Ambit Properties, a joint initiative of Absa Commercial Property Finance and Marriott Holdings, is set to be listed on the JSE Securities Exchange SA on February 4.

The first South African installation of African Gabions' new MacWall Compac engineered block retaining wall system was completed recently at the Bafokeng Civic Centre in the North West

Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) reported a 38% jump in headline earnings per share to 1154 cents for the year ended September 30 from 838.3 cents a year ago