Paddy Hartdegen – SANS10400-Building Regulations South Africa

Paddy Hartdegen

Paddy Hartdegen has been a working journalist and photographer since 1973 and has worked on most of the daily newspapers in South Africa, been involved in various facets of trade journalism, and has written 12 books and two plays over the years. He also has a wealth of experience in communications. He has, in the past, run his own publishing companies. He started the business pages of the iafrica.com site in 1996 and produced the daily copy for that for four years (365 days a year).

Councils Must be Ruthless with Unsafe Buildings

02/12/2014 Articles, Disasters, Municipality, safety 6

Councils Must be Ruthless with Restricting Occupation of Unsafe Buildings I think it must be terrifying to be woken at 04:00 in the morning by a thunderclap that makes the whole building shudder. Then, in a confused state, you realise your bed’s still shaking and, no, it wasn’t thunder, it …