The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (dtic) has welcomed the forthcoming launch of a strategic partnership between train technology company Wabtec South Africa and railway wheels... 

The Airlines Association of Southern Africa (AASA) has called on State-owned Air Traffic Navigation Service (ATNS) to strengthen its collaboration with airlines to urgently resolve ongoing issues... 

The National Empowerment Fund (NEF), an agency of the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition, has announced a combined funding commitment of R51-million to advance transformation in South... 

State-owned entity Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS) has identified a shortage of skilled flight procedure designers as the primary challenge affecting the maintenance of South Africa’s... 

State-owned utility Eskom says it is bolstering efforts to eliminate load reduction by 2027 as South Africa’s electricity system stabilises. The Load Reduction Elimination Strategy, launched by... 

The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has published a consultation paper on State-owned utility Eskom’s application to amend the losses charge calculation methodology for embedded... 

The Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) recorded 9 200 safety-related occurrences, which is a 7.2% decrease from the previous year, while fatalities fell to 81, which is the lowest in five years, the... 

State-owned Transnet on October 23 launched four new ship-to-shore (STS) cranes, valued at R967-million, at the Durban Container Terminal (DCT) Pier 2, aimed at enhancing the terminal’s operational... 

Deputy Electricity and Energy Minister Samantha Graham-Maré has called on owners of large public and private buildings to immediately initiate the process to register for an Energy Performance... 

State-owned port operator Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has started the yearly nourishment environmental practice of the Alkanstrand Beach, next to the entrance to the harbour of the... 

City of Johannesburg executive mayor Dada Morero and Transport MMC Kenny Kunene, accompanied by representatives of the taxi industry, will launch Phase 1C(a) of the Rea Vaya bus rapid transit (BRT)... 

State-owned freight and logistics company Transnet plans to invest R127-billion over five years in modernizing rail lines and upgrading ports, its CE Michelle Phillips said on Tuesday. Transnet... 

State-owned utility Eskom has expressed support for the launch of South Africa’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) 2025, which it said aims to balance energy security, affordability, environmental... 

The State-owned Road Accident Fund (RAF) made record payments of R694-million on October 17, highlighting the positive impact of its fast-tracking initiatives on daily payment volumes. It has... 

State-owned Transnet has won the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) Logistics Achiever Gold Award (LAA) 2025 for its e-Tender solution. The award, which was presented at a ceremony held at... 

Engineering News editor Terence Creamer discusses the changes announced this week to the boards of Eskom and Necsa, as well as Cabinet's approval of the next edition of the Integrated Resource Plan... 

A partnership formed earlier this year between prepared-water provider MANZI Water and technology-enabled refilling store SKUBU resulted in the launch of an initiative to alleviate the impact of... 

Last week, Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) reportedly handled 100 158 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) and 27 879 fully-built units (FBU) across automotives. In the same week, the Ngqura Container... 

Cabinet has approved a new Eskom Holdings board, which will continue to be chaired by Mteto Nyati, whose term has not expired because his appointment was made a year after the September 2022... 

The South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) has reported a net profit after tax of R125.2-million for the financial year to March 31, 2025, while Cabinet has appointed a new board... 

Liberal economics lobby organisation the Free Market Foundation (FMF) has called for the size of the national Cabinet to be reduced to create a lean but efficient Cabinet. The organisation made... 

South African independent power producer (IPP) Red Rocket has reached financial close on a 300 MW solar PV project, which will be built at a cost of about R5.2-billion on land leased to it by... 

President Cyril Ramaphosa has welcomed a Team Europe investment package worth nearly €12-billion, announced at the Global Gateway Forum, in Brussels, Belgium, last week. This package builds on the... 

State-owned Eskom’s return to profitability for the first time in eight years, with a profit before tax of R23.9-billion for the 2025 financial year, offers some welcome positive news for the power... 

The South African Independent Power Producer Association (SAIPPA) expects to meet with Eskom later this month to discuss its concern that the State-owned entity’s proposed renewables projects may... 

The KwaZulu-Natal High Court has dismissed an application to have Transnet’s July 2023 selection of a preferred bidder to develop and upgrade the Durban Container Terminal (DCT) Pier 2, in... 

The Road Freight Association (RFA) has thrown its weight behind the proposed R50-billion Port of Gauteng project, calling it a potential “missing link” to revitalise South Africa’s logistics... 

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on October 9 unveiled a Team Europe investment package worth nearly €12-billion, at the Global Gateway... 

Transnet CEO Michelle Phillips has expressed optimism that some locomotives that have been standing idle for years amid a long-running dispute with the China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation... 

The South African Local Government Association (Salga) has warned that Eskom’s proposal to implement distribution agency agreements (DAAs) to curb growing municipal debt to the utility could be... 

The biggest union at South Africa’s Eskom is demanding a wage increase of as much as 15% ahead of negotiations that are set to begin. The National Union of Mineworkers, representing about 15 000... 

Eskom is again warning that municipal debt and electricity theft could undermine its nascent recovery. Terence Creamer unpacks this and some of the other key messages emerging from the State-owned... 

Eskom veteran Monde Bala has been appointed as CEO of the National Transmission Company South Africa (NTCSA), effective October 1, having served in the position on an interim basis for the past two... 

Having finally announced the completion at the end of September of its generation build programme, which included two mega coal projects that ran years behind schedule and tens of billions over... 

The UK government has announced new projects to support the responsible development and use of AI across Africa, following the G20 ‘AI for Africa Initiative’, held in Cape Town. These initiatives,... 

Eskom has announced a stay in its legal action to have the regulator’s decision to licence five electricity traders in 2024 reviewed and set aside. In July, Eskom launched its long-threatened legal... 

Eskom CEO Dan Marokane reports that the State-owned company is being geared towards receiving no more than single-digit tariff increases in future in recognition of the affordability pressures...