Pan-African infrastructure investor and multi-vehicle asset manager Africa50, on October 1 announced the appointment of Sérgio Pimenta as CEO of the Africa50 Infrastructure Acceleration Fund (IAF).... 

Private sector initiative the Port of Gauteng has released a White Paper to mark the start of Transport Month, setting out a plan aimed at addressing the inefficiencies in South Africa’s freight... 

The Civil Confidence Index compiled by FNB and the Bureau for Economic Research has increased to a level of 43 in the third quarter of the year from 41 in the second quarter and 45 in the first... 

Construction of the Potsdam Wastewater Treatment Works (WWTW) in Cape Town, currently one of the Western Cape’s largest infrastructure projects at a cost of R5.2-billion, has reached 60%... 

Investment firm New GX Capital, under the leadership of CEO Khudusela Pitje, has announced that Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking (Nedbank CIB) has committed $28-million to Airnergize... 

South African scaffolding and formwork specialists Uni-span is playing a pivotal role in one of Botswana’s biggest infrastructure projects – a 30-m-high, 140-m-wide dome-shaped coal storage... 

The CEO-led business partnership that is currently assisting the South African government with the implementation of turnaround initiatives in electricity, transport, crime and youth unemployment... 

To drive economic recovery and job creation in South Africa’s steel sector, industry organisation Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (Seifsa) emphasises the... 

Seventeen African governments have committed to reforms and actionable plans to expand electricity access as part of Mission 300, which is a partnership between development finance institutions the... 

Pan-African infrastructure and industrial development funding group, the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), has announced, in collaboration with the Africa Social Security Association (ASSA) and... 

Industry organisations Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) and the Interstate Consultants Engineers Guild (ICEG) of Ukraine have signed an agreement to strengthen collaboration between South... 

South African National Energy Development Institute (Sanedi) energy secretariat head Professor Sampson Mamphweli says the government intends to leverage the Expropriation Act to acquire land for... 

Two well-established South African renewables companies – African Clean Energy Developments and EIMS Africa – have officially combined to form a new large-scale independent power producer (IPP)... 

Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson welcomes regulator the Construction Industry Development Board's (cidb's) blacklisting of 40 contractors since June 2024 as a dramatic... 

The Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation has said it is “perturbed by the lackadaisical attitude” of City of Johannesburg executive mayor Dada Morero toward resolving the water shortage... 

Having identified a need for real-time situational awareness among cities, utilities and many commercial and industrial property owners, data and AI company The Awareness Company has recalibrated... 

Underpinned by sustainability, the goal of South African real estate investment trust Growthpoint Properties is to achieve net-zero carbon emissions across its portfolio by 2050. “We continue to... 

Gqeberha, in the Eastern Cape, has been selected to anchor hybrid hotel and accommodation developer The Capital Hotel Group’s entry into the region, thereby addressing an underserviced market and... 

South African development finance institution, the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), announced on Tuesday that it and Togo-based pan-African private sector banking group Ecobank, acting... 

South African affordable sustainable residential property development company TUHF announced on Monday that it had partnered with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank... 

State-owned Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) reports that the upgrade of Newark road, which serves as one of the Port of Richards Bay’s most important access routes, is 75% complete. Since... 

Technologies such as AI, automation innovations and other digital tools are changing the way in which civil engineering is conducted, going beyond the concrete and steel that typically... 

The professional body for municipal infrastructure engineering, the Institute for Municipal Engineering of Southern Africa (IMESA), has stressed the imperative to establish effective measures to... 

Dubai-based pan-African integrated industrial zone developer and operator ARISE Integrated Industrial Platforms (ARISE IIP), founded in 2010, has announced that it has successfully raised... 

Lilian Ngoyi street, in Johannesburg, will officially reopen to traffic on September 12, with Phase 1 of the rehabilitation project completed, the Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) says. Public... 

The First National Bank (FNB)/Bureau for Economic Research (BER) Building Confidence Index has decreased from 36 in the second quarter of this year to 35 in the third quarter. Not only was this the... 

Murray & Roberts (M&R) Limited says its business rescue remains on track and that the Gauteng High Court's order placing M&R Holdings under provisional liquidation has no impact on M&R Limited's... 

Transnet CEO Michelle Phillips reports that negotiations are under way to conclude contracts with the first 11 private train operating companies (TOCs) that have qualified to take up slots on the... 

The solar energy market is surging in South Africa – particularly in the commercial and industrial sectors – as businesses seek cost-effective, sustainable solutions to manage rising electricity... 

Innovations in solar energy, such as off-grid energy solutions company Blockpower’s Blackbox, an energy management system (EMS), allow for energy savings and cost-efficiency, as well as system... 

As South Africa grapples with ongoing electricity shortages and a heavy reliance on ageing coal-fired power plants, renewable energy remains critical to ensuring long-term energy security and... 

Solar energy solutions company GoSolr is giving schools and small- and medium-sized businesses access to subscription-based solar power, thereby reducing their reliance on the national grid for... 

The growing trade of solar power by independent power producers (IPPs) is playing a pivotal role in South Africa’s rapidly deregulating electricity market. By diversifying the energy mix and... 

The B20 South Africa task force on energy has unveiled three recommendations that will be presented to the G20 government leaders when they gather for their yearly meeting in Johannesburg in... 

State-owned Transnet has welcomed the arrest of 21 individuals suspected of critical infrastructure theft. Transnet notes that the individuals were arrested on September 1 by members of South...