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Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago
Kganyago sees South African inflation dip creating policy space
10th October 2024 By: Bloomberg

South African Reserve Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago said inflation could fall below 4% in coming months, creating more room for action after officials cut interest rates in September. ‘We expect... 


Wind turbines
Danish Energy Agency backing project to validate wind resources of South Africa’s coal heartland
10th October 2024 By: Terence Creamer

The Danish and South African governments are partnering on a project to map the wind resources of the coal region of Mpumalanga, where access to the grid for new renewables projects is less... 


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South Africa positioned well to leverage the benefits of a hydrogen economy
10th October 2024 By: Natasha Odendaal

South Africa has an ideal opportunity, and is well positioned, to leverage the potential of the emerging hydrogen economy and establish an integrated value chain. Amid global hydrogen economy... 


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Steenhuisen vows more targeted approach to resolving food security challenge
10th October 2024 By: Marleny Arnoldi

About 20-million South Africans, or 63% of households, are food insecure, Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen revealed at the unveiling of the results of the National Food and Nutrition Security... 


DFFE international governance and resource mobilisation chief policy adviser Stuart Mangold; Danish Industries project lead Clara Halvorsen; Danish Industry ESG and sustainability senior adviser Dr Vibeke Huge Rehfeld; Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Deputy Minister Narend Singh; and Danish Industry CBAM expert Anna Ipsen Nielson
Broad recognition of need for, benefits of, metals industry's transition to a low-carbon pathway, but funding limited
10th October 2024 By: Schalk Burger

Representatives of South Africa's metals and engineering industry and government have emphasised the need to transition the industry to a low-carbon pathway and discussed the benefits this would... 


Meat in a fridge
AMIE bemoans costly inefficiencies for meat import permits following BMA changes
9th October 2024 By: Marleny Arnoldi

The Association of Meat Importers and Exporters (AMIE) has raised concern about the significant delays in the issuance of meat import removal permits, stating that the process used to take two days... 


The Durban port
Court blocks top Africa port deal as Maersk contests award
9th October 2024 By: Bloomberg

A South African court temporarily blocked a deal between the nation’s state-owned logistics firm and a company owned by Filipino billionaire Enrique Razon to expand and run sub-Saharan Africa’s... 


Nicky Oppenheimer
Recycle like there’s no tomorrow, big screen at Oppenheimer event urges attendees
9th October 2024 By: Martin Creamer

Recycle like there’s no tomorrow were the urging words flashed across the large screen at the thirteenth Oppenheimer Research Conference, where long-time former diamond mining luminary Nicky... 


Africa Oil Week 2025 to be held in Ghana
9th October 2024 By: Rebecca Campbell

Africa Oil Week (AOW), which is currently marking its thirtieth anniversary at AOW 2024, which is in progress at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, has confirmed that AOW 2025 will be... 


DWS cautions of presence of cholera in Vaal, Harts rivers
9th October 2024 By: Natasha Odendaal

The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) on Wednesday cautioned water users along the Vaal and Harts rivers in the North West and the Northern Cape of the presence of cholera. This followed a... 


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South African fly farmer Maltento expands into the UK, EU
9th October 2024 By: Irma Venter

Insect-based animal-feed solutions producer Maltento has grown its production capacity and is now expanding into the EU and UK. The Cape Town-based company already achieved its EU export... 


Plentify's SolarBot and HotBot devices
SolarBot device mitigates growing issue of unoptimised solar systems
9th October 2024 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Home energy management company Plentify says its partnership with solar and electrical solutions installer Herholdts to distribute its SolarBot devices in South Africa, has helped customers to gain... 


Seriti Green CEO Peter Venn
The biggest obstacle to renewable energy in Africa? Red tape, AOW delegates hear
9th October 2024 By: Rebecca Campbell

The key problems in implementing renewable energy in Africa (including South Africa) are regulatory, participants in a panel discussion at Africa Oil Week (AOW) reported, on Wednesday. AOW is being... 


IEA executive director Fatih Birol
Cost-competitiveness to underpin surge in global renewables roll-out to 2030 - IEA
9th October 2024 By: Terence Creamer

Led by solar PV, renewables are poised to transform electricity systems across the globe this decade, with the world on course to add more than 5 500 GW by 2030, the International Energy Agency’s... 


Solar panels at the Komati power plant
France nears disbursement of second climate loan to South Africa
9th October 2024 By: Bloomberg

France is nearing the disbursement of a second loan to South Africa’s Treasury under the Just Energy Transition Partnership programme. “We are in the final stages of preparing a second loan,”... 


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Mondi to acquire €634m worth of assets from German Schumacher Packaging
9th October 2024 By: Darren Parker

Multinational sustainable packaging and paper producer Mondi has entered into an agreement to acquire the German, Benelux and UK corrugated converting and solid board operations of Schumacher... 


Epiroc’s New Concept Mining launches hard-rock drill manufacturing plant in Johannesburg
Epiroc’s New Concept Mining launches hard-rock drill manufacturing plant in Johannesburg
9th October 2024

New Concept Mining, which is part of Swedish-headquartered Epiroc, in September launched its Hydraulic Rock Drill, or HRD manufacturing plant in Aeroton, Johannesburg.  


Commission approves acquisition of DCT 2 SPV
8th October 2024 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

The Competition Commission has approved the proposed transaction whereby International Container Terminal Services (ICTS) intends to acquire Durban Container Terminal (DCT) 2 Special Purpose... 


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CSIR cybersecurity surveys reveal skills gap, lack of readiness
8th October 2024 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Information and Cybersecurity Centre, in collaboration with the Cybersecurity Hub under the Department of Communication and Digital... 


Nyanza Light Metals  CEO Donovan Chimhandamba.
$860m ilmenite beneficiation project enters bulk earthworks phase at Richards Bay IDZ
8th October 2024 By: Martin Creamer

The bulk earthworks phase of the Nyanza Light Metals plant to advance ilmenite up the value curve as titanium dioxide (TiO2) pigment has begun at the Richards Bay Industrial Development Zone... 


EWSETA joins German delegation at energy training centre
EWSETA joins German delegation at energy training centre
8th October 2024 By: Sabrina Jardim

 After being transformed from a rundown residential property in Benoni, Gauteng, into a ‘cutting-edge’ energy training centre, the Institute of Energy Professionals Africa’s (IEPA’s) International... 


rural off-grid solar power
$21bn increase in off-grid solar investment needed to facilitate universal energy access
8th October 2024 By: Darren Parker

A $21-billion increase over current investment levels is required to realise the off-grid potential of solar power to contribute to universal energy access, according to the latest ‘Off-Grid Solar... 


African petroleum body head reaffirms importance of the sector to African development
8th October 2024 By: Rebecca Campbell

Africa cannot develop without oil and gas. So African Petroleum Producers Organisation (APPO) secretary-general Dr Omar Farouk Ibrahim unequivocally proclaimed on Tuesday, in his address at the... 


US sees oil and gas as essential to global energy but sector must cut greenhouse emissions
8th October 2024 By: Rebecca Campbell

The US recognised the vital role that oil and gas played in the global energy matrix, assured US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy Joshua Volz. He was addressing the Africa Oil Week 2024... 


Zero Carbon Charge, AIDC-EC launch off-grid EV charger programme in the Eastern Cape
Zero Carbon Charge, AIDC-EC launch off-grid EV charger programme in the Eastern Cape
8th October 2024 By: Irma Venter

Zero Carbon Charge (Charge), in partnership with the Automotive Industry Development Centre Eastern Cape (AIDC-EC), and together with the Eastern Cape provincial government, has broken ground on... 


CoCT councillor Moosa Raise, CoCT Energy executive director Kadri Nassiep, Xanthea Limberg, Geordin Hill-Lewis and CoCT councillor Allister Lightburn
Construction begins on Cape Town solar PV plant, battery storage tender released
8th October 2024 By: Irma Venter

The City of Cape Town (CoCT) has started construction on a R200-million, 7 MW solar PV plant, located in Atlantis, with the first electricity to be delivered by the end of next year. The tender for... 


Nordex head of sales Africa David Moncasi
Nordex joins industry in call for swift approval of curtailment framework
8th October 2024 By: Sabrina Jardim

Wind turbine manufacturer Nordex South Africa has joined the country’s wind industry members in calling for the swift approval of a curtailment framework. In an October 8 media release, Nordex says... 


A FlySafair aircraft at the King Phalo airport
ACSA again suspends flights from, to airport in East London
8th October 2024 By: Creamer Media Reporter

State-owned Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) has confirmed that all inbound and outbound flights at King Phalo Airport, in East London, have been postponed as a result of adverse weather... 


Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe
Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Mantashe reaffirms support for oil and gas
8th October 2024 By: Rebecca Campbell

Ensuring the security of the country’s energy supplies and addressing energy poverty were objectives of the South African government, Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe told... 


Industrial Gas Users’ Association of Southern Africa CEO Jaco Human
Opinion: Non-profit gas aggregation imperative for South Africa
8th October 2024

In this opinion article, Industrial Gas Users’ Association of Southern Africa CEO Jaco Human makes the case for pursuing gas aggregation on a non-profit basis, while also urging Eskom and Sasol to... 


satellite in space near moon
Applications open for 2024 NextGen Space Challenge
8th October 2024 By: Darren Parker

Innovate UK Global Alliance Africa has officially announced the launch of the 2024 NextGen Space Challenge, a key initiative under the UK-Africa Space Technology for Sustainability Global... 


A customer shopping for groceries
South African antitrust body faults grocers over high food costs
8th October 2024 By: Bloomberg

South African food producers and retailers have been slow to pass on the effects of declining cost pressures to cash-strapped consumers, an issue that may warrant further investigation, the... 


Tracker launches AI-powered OKgo to boost local supply chain visibility, optimisation
7th October 2024 By: Schalk Burger

Vehicle tracking and telemetry company Tracker, in partnership with US-based AI-powered supply chain visibility and intelligence provider Roambee, has launched the OKgo solution to provide... 


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