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Minergy outlines new Botswana coal project

Exploration company Minergy Limited has outlined a new coal project in the Mmamabula coalfield in Botswana. Executive director Claude de Bruin, who addressed last week’s Botswana Resource Sector Conference in Gaborone, has announced a maiden...

By: Martin Creamer

18 Jun 13

Martin Creamer Show on SAFM

14/06/2013 (On-The-Air)

South Africa’s exciting new local iron breakthrough is expected to hit the commercial ground running; Mozambique is surprising on the upside with a big new high-value iron aspiration of its own; the Botswana government is pulling out all the...

By: Martin Creamer

14 Jun 13

Energy Sector

Bank to help accelerate Malawi’s energy-sector reform project

The World Bank has agreed to the fast-track of the implementation of Malawi’s dragging $84.7-million Energy Sector Support Project, which it is funding and is aimed at improving the operational capacity of Malawi’s hydro-based electricity...

By: Marcel Chimwala

14 Jun 13

Electricity

Energy a major hurdle to Africa’s infrastructure development

Energy shortages across Africa are hindering the continent from improving its infrastructure, notes advisory firm KPMG global infrastructure and projects group director De Buys Scott. He explains that the availability of energy has a direct...

By: Yolandi Booyens

14 Jun 13

AUTO INDUSTRY – 1

Nissan, Eskom team up on electric vehicle research project

Nissan South Africa (SA) has entered into a three-year research project with Eskom that will see the electricity utility test the usage patterns and requirements of the Leaf electric vehicle (EV), as well as its impact on the national power grid....

By: Irma Venter

14 Jun 13

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

Bank warns SA faces uphill battle to return to pre-crisis growth levels

Growth in South Africa is unlikely to reach pre-crisis levels unless “supply-side reforms” are undertaken, the World Bank warns in its latest ‘Global Economic Prospects (GEP)’ report released in Washington DC on Wednesday. Similar...

By: Terence Creamer

13 Jun 13

ENERGY

South Africa’s energy-saving initiatives gain momentum

While South Africa has made great strides in developing energy efficiency projects to mitigate dwindling electricity reserves, more needs to be done to encourage and support firms to undertake the transition from “business as usual” to...

By: Natasha Odendaal

11 Jun 13

SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC

US company eyes African PV market

Nasdaq-listed solar photovoltaic (PV) group First Solar on Tuesday said that it was engaging with several sub-Sahara African governments around the benefits of installing utility-scale PV systems to diversify their energy mix and accelerate energy...

By: Natalie Greve

11 Jun 13

All

Roof-mounted photovoltaic plant project, South Africa

The project entails the construction of a roof-mounted photovolatic plant for Bosco’s Edenvale factory, in Gauteng.

By: Sheila Barradas

07 Jun 13

ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY

Tanesco to be unbundled in bid to bolster efficiency, spur investment

After months of false starts, one of Africa’s most inefficient power utilities is finally about to start restructuring.

By: John Muchira

07 Jun 13

LIGHTING

Philips roadshow brings light to rural communities

From Creamer Media in Johannesburg, this is the Real Economy Report. Royal Philips Electronics is continuing its programme of installing more than a hundred Community Light Centres across Africa with six new centres in South Africa.

URANIUM

Gray urges uranium industry to invest in new production

Federal Resources Minister Gary Gray has called for greater involvement in the uranium industry, urging industry players to commit to further spending. “Industry needs to commit to the further development of new projects to ensure that our...

By: Esmarie Swanepoel

06 Jun 13

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