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This Request for Proposal (RFP), issued by the GreenCape Sector Development Agency on 29 August 2025, seeks a Professional Service Provider (PSP) to conduct project preparation activities for three infrastructure projects in the Saldanha Bay Municipality. The work is part of the Sustainable Infrastructure Development and Financial Facility (SIDAFF) Programme, which is funded by international donors including the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and Impact Fund Denmark (IFD). The PSP will guide projects from initiation through to documentation and procurement, ensuring compliance with both South African law and international standards, specifically the International Finance Corporation's (IFC) Performance Standards and World Bank Environmental and Social Standards.

This document is a draft written reply from the South African Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs to a National Assembly question (No. 1578) posed by Mr J H van der Merwe (IFP) regarding water shortages in the Dukuduku and St Lucia areas of KwaZulu-Natal.

The Mpumalanga Province Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Land and Environmental Affairs has granted environmental authorisation to the International Company for Water and Power Projects to construct a bulk water supply pipeline. The pipeline will connect the eMalahleni Reclamation Plant with the Khanyisa Power Station.