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Electricity and Energy Deputy Minister Samantha Graham-Maré
Electricity and Energy Deputy Minister Samantha Graham-Maré
Graham-Maré expects Cabinet to adopt long-awaited industrialisation masterplan for renewables ‘within the month’
13th March 2025 By: Terence Creamer

Electricity and Energy Deputy Minister Samantha Graham-Maré reports that the long-awaited South African Renewable Energy Masterplan (SAREM) is currently wending its way through the Cabinet Committee process and has expressed optimism that it... 


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Stats SA industry statistics director Nicolai Claassen
Manufacturing production decreased by 3.3% y/y in January
13th March 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reveals that manufacturing production decreased by 3.3% year-on-year in January. The petroleum, chemical, rubber and plastics division was the largest negative... 


JA Engineering CEO Matimba Mahange, JA Engineering business development, sales and marketing director Mbulelo Nkasana, Gauteng Finance and Economic Development MEC Lebogang Maile and JA Engineering COO Danie Van Wyk
Gauteng heavy equipment manufacturing sector has not reached its full potential, Maile says
13th March 2025 By: Darren Parker

After visiting manufacturing and engineering company JA Engineering’s facilities in Boksburg, Ekurhuleni, on March 13, Gauteng Finance and Economic Development MEC Lebogang Maile said he was upbeat... 


Hyprop CEO Morné Wilken
Favourable trade metrics boost Hyprop’s interim distributable income growth by 14.5%
13th March 2025 By: Marleny Arnoldi

JSE- and A2X-listed specialist property retail fund Hyprop Investments has achieved double-digit growth of 14.5% year-on-year in its distributable income to R765-million for the six months ended... 


Sars Commissioner Edward Kieswetter
Kieswetter confident that Sars modernisation will boost tax collection
13th March 2025 By: Marleny Arnoldi

South African Revenue Service (Sars) Commissioner Edward Kieswetter on March 13 explained the revised revenue estimate presented by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana in the Budget tabled in... 


Bacsa urges business to tackle extortion through E2 programme
13th March 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

Industry body Business Against Crime South Africa (Bacsa) is calling on businesses across South Africa to make full use of its proven extortion prevention programme, which forms an integral part of... 


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SA Just Energy Transition funds drop to $12.8bn
SA Just Energy Transition funds drop to $12.8bn
14th March 2025

South Africa has lost over $1-billion in funding pledged by the US for the Just Energy Transition (JET). With this withdrawal, South Africa’s total pledged funding has decreased to $12.83-billion,... 


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Lesotho Tunnel reopening delayed by three weeks amid technical challenges
13th March 2025 By: Natasha Odendaal

The reopening of the Lesotho Highlands tunnel has been delayed by three weeks, owing to maintenance work delays experienced in the Delivery Tunnel South, in Lesotho. The critical tunnel, which... 


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Joburg Water's new Erand tower set to boost Midrand water supply
13th March 2025 By: Natasha Odendaal

A new two-megalitre water tower set to bolster water supply to the Midrand area, in Gauteng, is 60% complete. The R92-million Erand tower and pump station project, currently being constructed by... 


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Scatec commissions first 60 MW of solar farm in Botswana
13th March 2025 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Norwegian renewable energy company Scatec has started commercial operation of the first 60 MW of the 120 MW Mmadinare Solar Cluster, in Botswana. The power plant is Scatec’s first installation in... 


Paratus Group opens in Tanzania
13th March 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Pan-African telecommunications and network services provider Paratus Group continues its expansion in East Africa with the opening of Paratus Tanzania. The launch of Paratus Tanzania, a joint... 


Tabled Budget still facing some opposition
Tabled Budget still facing some opposition
13th March 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Engineering News editor Terence Creamer discusses Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana's tabling of his much-anticipated Budget after the unprecedented postponement on February 19; how the March 12... 


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Magazine round up | 14 March 2025
Magazine round up | 14 March 2025
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A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. 


Acting Exxaro CEO Riaan Koppeschaar.
Exxaro boosting small business, education, post-mining economies, farming ventures
13th March 2025 By: Martin Creamer

As at the end of December, the social investments of Exxaro Resources amounted to R2.1-billion amid the bettering of lives and livelihoods being declared core by this black-controlled Johannesburg... 


Southern African bloc to withdraw troops from Congo in phases
13th March 2025 By: Reuters

The Southern African Development Community said on Thursday that a summit of regional heads of state had terminated the mandate of its troop deployment in the Democratic Republic of Congo and... 


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EIB reviews financing for $760m hydro project over DRC war
13th March 2025 By: Reuters

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is holding off on decisions to finance the $760-million Ruzizi III hydropower plant in Central Africa, due to fighting between Rwandan-backed rebels and the... 


Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana
Budget may be tweaked further, Godongwana says
13th March 2025 By: Reuters

South Africa's budget may be tweaked further as more talks between political parties will try to overcome differences over a contentious plan to raise value-added tax, the country's finance... 


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Magazine round up | 14 March 2025
Magazine round up | 14 March 2025

A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. 

UNDER PRESSURE: South African factory sentiment edged deeper into contractionary territory in February, with the Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index, compiled by the Bureau for Economic Research, falling to 44.7 from 45.3 in January. The gauge of expected business conditions in six-month’s time fell “as uncertainties around global trade, SA-US relations, and the return of load-shedding weighed on sentiment”. Photograph: Bloomberg
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South African factory sentiment edged deeper into contractionary territory in February, with the Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index, compiled by the Bureau for Economic Research, falling to 44.7 from... 

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Needed now is mindfulness, alertness, watchfulness, uptake, commitment

Never has it been more important for South Africans to collaborate in very committed fashion on all things that keep businesses afloat and enable new business opportunities to materialise.... 

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Trade war blueprint

US President Donald Trump’s recently published trade policy agenda leaves absolutely no room for nuance. Not even the tiniest crack has been left to allow light to be shed on the possible... 

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Stefan Babatchev, chief project engineer at Condra Cranes & Hoists
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This week we profile Stefan Babatchev, chief project engineer at Condra Cranes & Hoists, a manufacturer of cranes, hoists and material handling equipment 

DEADLY CUT: The US government’s decision to halt funding for African HIV programmes was not unexpected. Nevertheless, the sudden manner of the withdrawal is both disruptive and potentially deadly for tens of thousands of people who have been heavily reliant on the President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief since 2003. Unless alternative funding is found, and found quickly, the hitherto successful fight against the disease itself could be set back decades.
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The US government’s decision to halt funding for African HIV programmes was not unexpected. Nevertheless, the sudden manner of the withdrawal is both disruptive and potentially deadly for tens of... 

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