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President Cyril Ramaphosa told the nineth Southern African Customs Union Summit in Cape Town on June 26 that member States must move beyond traditional customs arrangements to build Southern Africa into one of the world's most competitive regional production hubs. He urged the bloc to leverage complementary strengths – South Africa's automotive and steel capacity, Botswana's diamond beneficiation and vaccine cooperation, Namibia's green hydrogen and uranium processing potential, Lesotho's textile sector and Eswatini's manufacturing base – to create an integrated regional industrial ecosystem capable of competing globally.
Lesotho Highlands Water Project refurbishment showcases corrosion control innovationCorrosion control coating solutions provider Corrocoat South Africa has used Nanoflake glassflake reinforced coating technology in the Lesotho Highlands Water Project's tunnel refurbishment, covering the transfer tunnel, delivery tunnel, Muela power station and bypass tunnel steel linings. The project, which won Project of the Year from the Corrosion Institute of Southern Africa, is expected to extend the refurbished infrastructure's life by another 30 years.
Infrastructure investment identified as key to breaking South Africa's low-growth cycleDevelopment Bank of Southern Africa chief economist Zeph Nhleko says South Africa faces an estimated R13.4-trillion infrastructure requirement over the next decade or two across energy, transport, information and communications technology, water and education sectors, with about 76% needed for maintenance. He argues that infrastructure investment must be the starting point to address the country's low investment, low economic growth challenge, noting that South Africa's gross fixed capital formation needs to increase from about R1.1-trillion a year to R1.6-trillion to R1.7-trillion a year to match middle-income peers investing close to 33% of GDP.
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Africa has no shortage of infrastructure plans or vision, but turning those ambitions into infrastructure delivery requires execution, warns Water and Sanitation Deputy Minister David Mahlobo....
South Africa’s economy continues to face challenges, including slow growth, high unemployment and pressure on important services such as electricity, transport and water. New infrastructure...
A sale of De Beers, Anglo American's diamond unit, has never been closer, its CEO said on Tuesday, adding that a deal could come within weeks. Anglo put De Beers - one of the world's leading...
The Armaments Corporation of South Africa (Armscor) is hosting 21 scientists from 16 African countries at its Protechnik Laboratories, in Pretoria, Gauteng, from June 8 to 19 for the yearly...
Enticing support for first movers into green hydrogen project development is on offer via a first-of-a-kind government-led framework designed to assess the readiness and bankability of green...
Corrosion control coating solutions provider Corrocoat South Africa aims to use Nanoflake – a glassflake reinforced coating innovation used to ensure efficient corrosion protection of capital...
In this article by Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) chief economist and group executive Zeph Nhleko, he highlights infrastructure investment as the central lever to break South Africa’s...
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) continues to advance national bulk water and national resource projects across South Africa. During her Budget Vote speech this month, Water and...
Financial market research company BMI expects oil prices to average $90/bbl this year, and to remain higher for longer, which will, in turn, feed into rising inflation. This will lead to pressure...
What: (Virtual Showroom) Xylem, a global leader in water technology, announces a strategic update to its operating model in Southern Africa. Effective June 1, 2026, AQS Liquid Transfer PTY Ltd,...
On a Friday last November, government officials representing Lesotho, a mountainous enclave in eastern South Africa, sat down in the capital Maseru for three hours of negotiations with Trump...
South Africa and Botswana are teaming up to monitor water quality and manage invasive aquatic species in the upper Limpopo river basin. Through a memorandum of agreement (MoA), the two countries...
In South Africa, the water utilities and systems are treated as stepchildren, by the various levels of government, affirmed Association of Water and Sanitation Institutions of South Africa (Awsisa)...
Diamond miner Gem Diamonds recorded revenue of $32.1-million for the quarter ended March 31, supported by the sale of large, high-value diamonds recovered at its Letšeng mine, in Lesotho. During...
In the Government Gazette of April 30, the South African Revenue Service (Sars) gave notice of the retrospective increase, effective from April 1, of the annual quota for frozen bone-in cuts of the...
JSE-listed Vodacom Group on Monday said it has had a strong start to its Vision 2030 strategy, after delivering double-digit earnings growth for the year ended March 31. During the year under...
Full-scale tunnelling is now well underway at the Lesotho Highlands Water Project Phase II after the official launch of a second tunnel boring machine (TBM). The Polihali TBM, which technically...
In a landmark milestone, the Senqu bridge, the longest in Lesotho and a critical component of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) Phase II, has officially been inaugurated. The inauguration...
African countries including Kenya, Malawi, Lesotho and Zimbabwe have warned migrants in South Africa to be cautious and remain indoors due to attacks targeting foreigners, and Ghana has lobbied the...
The new “deal-making” approach in Washington has some suggesting that the extended African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) is likely to be used as leverage to secure the supply of unbeneficiated...
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