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The 2Africa subsea cable has landed at the Vodacom network facility in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, marking the third landing on the coast of South Africa of the world’s largest submarine cable system....
Mercedes-Benz South Africa (MBSA) will add a second plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) to the production line-up at its East London plant this year, says CEO Andreas Brand. The 50-year-old...
Mercedes-Benz South Africa (MBSA) will add a second plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) to the production line-up at its East London plant this year, says CEO Andreas Brand. The 50-year-old...
Drakenstein mayor Conrad Poole has raised a formal objection against the 18.65% electricity tariff increase that was approved for State-owned power utility Eskom from April 1, asking that the...
Several high-profile lawyers, leaders, and NPOs have threatened Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter and Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan with legal action following their failure to provide a...
A Stunning Achievement, the Larger-Than-Life 97-inch OLED TV Comes With Real Time Video and Audio Wireless Transmission up to 4K 120Hz LG Electronics (LG) is introducing its 97-inch LG SIGNATURE...
State-owned energy utility Eskom says it appreciates the tough tariff decision made by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) for the 2023/24 and 2024/25 financial years, for which...
The City of Johannesburg has issued a call for communities to play a more active role this year in protecting the city, noting that infrastructure critical to providing basic services to the people...
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Many areas in and around the City of Joburg have been without power since Friday after at least 17 incidents of cable theft and vandalism were reported. One person has since been arrested.
Crane manufacturer Condra Cranes has completed a 32 t, 30-metre-span container handling crane for Mbombela-based metals refinery Manganese Metal Company (MMC). MMC’s gantry was delivered on...
Work has started on the Msikaba bridge deck, the South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) reports, noting that it took three trucks to transport the first steel bridge deck segment in...
The 45 000 km 2Africa cable has landed in Yzerfontein and Duynefontein, in the Western Cape, in South Africa, as it prepares to go live in 2023. MTN GlobalConnect, the 2Africa landing party in...
The City of Johannesburg (CoJ) has urgently requested State-owned utility Eskom to grant it a reprieve from loadshedding for three days to meet the [nearly insurmountable] challenge of escalating...
Following the introduction of the RAV4 GX hybrid last year and the RAV4 hybrid E-Four this year, Toyota South Africa Motors (TSAM) says it will test the local market’s response to the RAV4 plug-in...
Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) has attempted to put a positive gloss on its recent attempt to sell 16 slots on its Cape and Container corridors that resulted in only one applicant emerging as a...
The Trell and Trine oilfield development is planned as a subsea tieback to existing field developments linked to the Alvheim floating production storage and offloading operation, which has been...
The city councils of Cape Town and Johannesburg have both deployed additional personnel to ensure the speedy resolution of outages and faults, especially during peak hours, following Eskom’s...
The City of Johannesburg has warned that cable theft will likely increase after Eskom announced the implementation of Stage 6 loadshedding. On Wednesday, Eskom reported breakdowns amounting to a...
(Virtual Showroom): Condra has completed a 32-ton, 30-metre span container handling crane for Manganese Metal Company (MMC), the Mbombela-based metal refinery. The working element of a...
South Africa’s State-owned port and rail company Transnet proposed switching to diesel trains to avoid disruptions to coal exports caused by the theft of power cables that disable electric...
State-owned rail companies the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) and Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) have both welcomed the six-month ban on the trade of scrap metal as government seeks to...
City Power has hired 52 new in-house electricians to lessen the utility's reliance on contractors. It will employ an additional 248 electricians by 2023. Environment, Infrastructure and Social...
Intelligent power management company Eaton announced the successful installation of a modular power system earlier this year at Africa Data Centres’ 10 MW facility - its largest installation on the...
Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) insists that valuable lessons have been gained from a recent attempt to sell 16 slots on its Cape and Container corridors, which resulted in only one applicant emerging...
The South African government has imposed a six-month ban on the export of copper and copper-alloy scrap, as well as most ferrous scrap as part of the first phase of a three-phase intervention...
By Wynand Marx, CEO at the BBE Group Conveyor belts used in underground and above ground mining operations to transport bulk solids can often be a leading cause of fire and consequent fatalities...
Cabinet has approved a “comprehensive package” of policy measures to restrict trade in scrap metal to limit damage to public infrastructure, including the ongoing theft of copper cables, which is...
While the improved management of copper scrap recycling is crucial to supplement future mined supplies to address the world’s seemingly perpetual copper deficit, copper cable theft continues to be...
The City of Cape Town’s Metal Theft Unit, also known as the Copperheads, says it aims to double the amount of copper confiscated year-on-year. The unit has already confiscated 2 489 kg of mixed...
The Mine Occupational Health and Safety Tripartite Summit provides a platform to engage and find solutions for improvement of occupational health and safety performance, said Mineral Resources and...
Following the introduction of the RAV4 GX hybrid last year and the RAV4 hybrid E-Four this year, Toyota South Africa Motors (TSAM) says it will test the local market’s response to the RAV4 plug-in...
Data environment services company Teraco has announced that it is now an integral connectivity and interconnection point for Internet services company Google’s Equiano subsea cable. The cable...
By Dwibin Thomas, Cluster Automation Leader at Schneider Electric A power outage is defined as the loss of electrical supply within an end-user installation. Whether the electrical installation is...
Data infrastructure and colocation company Teraco will, as part of its plans for the next five years, continue to invest in its facilities and will make announcements of future expansions soon,...
Battery and precious metals producer Sibanye-Stillwater has maintained its full-year production guidance for its South African platinum group metals (PGMs) operations at between 1.75-million and...
Nevada Copper has announced a new restart plan for the project.
ASX-listed Jupiter Mines recorded a consolidated net profit of $33-million for the half-year ended August 31, on the back of its $46-million share of net profit from its investment in Tshipi é Ntle...
Better-than-expected revenue collection enabled Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana to report an improvement in government’s fiscal position relative to the one forecast in the February Budget....
Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) CEO Sizakele Mzimela reports that the group’s plan to procure new locomotives will be put on hold in light of the recent in principle agreements reached between Transnet...
As a result of a Promotion of Access to Information Act application by the Democratic Alliance (the official opposition in the South African Parliament but the ruling party in the Western Cape...
Google plans to establish a new Google Cloud region in South Africa – its first on the continent – which will help users, developers, businesses and educational institutions across Africa to...
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