Four years after terrorist attacks halted a massive liquefied natural gas project in Mozambique, momentum behind $57-billion in facilities that will export the fuel is picking up. TotalEnergies SE... 

Engineering News editor Terence Creamer discusses the implications of a 30% tariff imposed by the US on imports from South Africa from August 1. 

Malawi has concluded $12-billion worth of Chinese mining and infrastructure transactions, which are positioning the landlocked country in south-eastern Africa for the supply of critical minerals,... 

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

The Gautrain Management Agency (GMA) is pursuing a new strategy to play a broader role in the country’s transport ecosystem and align to the province’s 25-year Integrated Transport Master Plan... 

According to the Bureau of Market Research’s (BMR’s) 'Macroeconomic and retail trade sales forecast for South Africa 2025' report, retailers that are agile, responsive and informed by robust market... 

Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has provided the outline for an overhauled universal access strategy that employs a blended financing approach to electrify, by 2030, the... 

With US President Donald Trump having recently sent various countries letters setting out their new tariff rates, expected to go into effect on August 1, Fitch Solutions unit BMI chief economist... 

A progress report on the implementation of economic reform through Operation Vulindlela for the first quarter of the 2025/26 fiscal year, published on July 10, demonstrates sustained progress in... 

Despite renewables capacity having grown by more than 15.1% in 2024, the growth gap widens across regions, the ‘Renewable Energy Statistics 2025’ report released by international organisation the... 

After six consecutive months of year-on-year declines, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has reported that manufacturing output turned positive in May, increasing by 0.5% year-on-year. Stats SA... 

Ahead of South Africa reporting to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in June 2027 on its implementation of recommendations to detect foreign bribery cases, the OECD... 

Zambia’s Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) expects to significantly expand the country’s renewable-energy capacity, by adding a projected 800-MW-plus of solar energy to the national grid, by the... 

The City of Cape Town (CoCT) will procure 30 fully electric buses from Volvo Bus Southern Africa for its MyCiTi bus service, following an open-market tendering process. The first buses are... 

The Bengwenyama platinum group metals (PGM) project in South Africa’s Limpopo province has received a major uplift through a staged development plan that cuts upfront capital costs by 38%. Staged... 

Rather than adopting green innovations just for the sake of it, Africa must focus on the sustainable growth that can be achieved through the local use of green technologies and innovations across... 

The Technology Innovation Agency (TIA), which falls under the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI), has highlighted the success of its participation in last month’s Ministerial... 

The Association of Water and Sanitation Institutions of South Africa (Awsisa) on Thursday welcomed – and fully supported – Water and Sanitation Minister Pemmy Majodina’s 2025/26 Budget Vote speech.... 

The National Consumer Commission (NCC) has received recall notifications from Volkswagen, Volvo Cars and Toyota in South Africa. Toyota is recalling 6 662 Hino 500 SKD series trucks and 77 Hino 500... 

Industry body Grain SA has declared its support for the new policy direction outlined in Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen’s 2025/26 budget vote speech, which was presented to Parliament on... 

While the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) progresses the establishment of the South African National Water Resources Infrastructure Agency (NWRIA), it continues to ensure that investment... 

President Donald Trump told leaders from five African nations on Wednesday that he was shifting the US approach to the continent from aid to trade and that the United States is a better partner for... 

Nigeria's Dangote petroleum refinery will construct storage tanks in Namibia to hold at least 1.6-million barrels of gasoline and diesel to supply refined fuel to Southern Africa, two sources told... 

US President Donald Trump's threatened 30% tariff on South African exports is set to deal an economic blow to a community he has vocally and controversially championed: white farmers. Citing false... 

Key African economies are set to stake out different approaches to interest rates in the coming weeks as they gauge the impact of US President Donald Trump’s new tariff proposals and their domestic... 

The debate in Parliament on the Department of Defence and Military Veterans' Budget Vote, on July 9, highlighted the significant challenges facing the defence sectors and the military in South... 

The Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI) has received an allocation of R9.06-billion for 2025/26, which adds to a consolidated government expenditure on innovation, science and... 

Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson has used his Budget Vote speech to unpack a vision for migrating government departments that collectively spend R6-billion yearly on private... 

JSE- and ASX-listed Renergen has informed shareholders that Mahlako Gas Energy (MGE) has given it notice that it elects to exercise a put option under a December 2023 agreement between MGE and... 

Chinese importer Chery South Africa (SA) is in the midst of a feasibility study to determine if it will establish an assembly plant in the country. “Given Chery’s rapid growth in the South African... 

Africa was the only region in the developing world to register growth in trade during the first half of this year (1H25), UN Trade & Development (much better known by its abbreviation, Unctad) has... 

Following the South Africa Photovoltaic Industry Association’s (SAPVIA’s) AGM on July 3, the industry body says the South African solar PV industry has recommitted itself to being an active... 

The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) has started public consultations on the raw water use charges for 2026/27 financial year. In addition to updating users on the raw water user process... 

South Africa’s platinum group metals (PGMs) and China’s green revolution have come together strongly in Shanghai at a hugely opportune time of changing global trading relationships and energy...