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Sustainability - Switch Africa Green

Download the November 2020 issue of our CBA Member's magazine "The Voice". Print copies are currently being distributed to members - please contact the CBA if you don't receive your copies!...view more

SWITCH Africa Green is a programme developed and funded by the European Union and implemented by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in partnership with European Union delegations in...view more

CBA Executive Director Mariana Lamont first met with Sekela Mpekula and her mother on her 2018 visit to Queenstown. These sustainability champions have continued to work with the project over the past 2 years.

Sekela Mpekula is a rising starin the small informal clay brick settlement in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape. Sekela is an accounting graduate born and raised in Queenstown. In 1998 her parents...view more

Mike Lusunzi (LEDET) , Ramakonya SJ (LEDET), Idah Ngobeni (LEDET), Yster Maduana (CBA).

Limpopo province — and particularly Thohoyandou in the Vhembe regional municipality — is well known for the quality of its clay and the manufacturing of clay bricks. The Switch team visited the...view more

Mine Manager Koos Harris, Berta Croucamp, Adrie Nel, Lana Stemmet and Namhla Shushu welcomed executive director Mariana Lamont to Namakwa Kleistene.

CBA president Hendrik van Dyk, and Executive Director Mariana Lamont each undertook road trips to different regions of South Africa to connect with our Members.

Hendrik Van Dyk - President...view more

Makana Brick in the Eastern Cape uses a solar microgrid to supplement and secure their power supply. The farm of photovoltaic (PV) panels is designed to produce 600 000 kW hours per annum — 356kWp...view more

CBA Executive Director Mariana Lamont shares this insightful leadership article from Harvard Business Review.

By the end of the year, our days are packed to the brim with holidays, family...view more

Fuel switching is often considered an essential step in achieving a low-carbon future.

Rain water, storm water, grey water, ground water and water reclaimed from manufacturing processes can be treated and reused.

Unfired clay bricks were first used in Mesopotamia around the third millennium BC.

Submitted by: Lisa Reynolds

Carbon Tax is being implemented in South Africa from 1 June 2019. At the CBA’s annual conference, Lisa Reynolds of Green Building Design Group (GreenBDG)...view more

Dr Garth Tayler, a consultant in Ceramic Science and heavy clay production spoke on the 80:20 Rule as applied to sustainable brick manufacture.

Back in 1906 the Italian engineer,...view more

The Department of Environmental Affairs has set limits for the air pollutants that may be released from clamp kilns.

The Voice is a printed magazine for CBA members. The May issue of The Voice has been published. Members - please contact Marnie at the CBA on admin@claybrick.org.za if your printed issue has not...view more

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