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Highest number of Renewable Energy installations in SA

23rd June 2017 Specialist electrical contractor, Brand Engineering SA (Pty) Ltd, has carried out the highest number of utility scale solar Renewable Energy (RE) installations in the RE industry in South Africa. It has become a key construction partner for RE developers, and is responsible for the generation of... →

Grain SA starts aid initiative to assist farmers

By: Megan van Wyngaardt 9th June 2017 Grain SA has launched a drought aid project aimed at collecting at least 15 000 t of white or yellow maize from its grain-producing members to be distributed to livestock farmers over three to four months. This follows an initiative launched by a group of farmers in the Hoopstad area to raise... →

Sun shines on South Africa’s clean energy future

21st April 2017 Substantial ultra-violet radiation levels and excellent wind conditions have allowed South Africa to diversify its energy generation mix from one that previously relied heavily upon fossil fuels towards a national grid network that is now supported by “green” renewable energy (RE). In line with... →

Funding under way for revival of old Prieska zinc-copper potential

By: Martin Creamer 12th April 2017 Funding efforts aimed at reviving the old Northern Cape mining area endowed with significant zinc and copper potential are gaining momentum. Acknowledged as the host of one of world’s most noteworthy volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) base metal deposits, the Prieska area has a well-recorded... →

Situation critical as Western Cape remains driest province in country – Water Department

By: African News Agency 1st March 2017 The Department of Water and Sanitation was working with the provincial government in the Western Cape to “avert a total disaster”, it said in a statement on Wednesday. Department spokesperson Sputnik Ratau said two of the Western Cape’s rivers, Prinsrivier and Gamka, had completely dried up,... →

Northern Cape municipalities avoid Eskom power cuts after making payment plans

By: African News Agency 15th February 2017 Eskom has said that it would not be implementing power cuts to the Northern Cape municipalities of Ubuntu and Renosterberg that were scheduled to take place on Wednesday. Eskom had initialy announced that it would implement “scheduled bulk power supply interruptions” to defaulting municipalities... →

SunPower donates solar panels to power computer labs

6th February 2017 SunPower recently donated solar panels to Bottomup and Douglas SEDC, two nonprofit organizations leading social development and education initiatives in South Africa. Bottomup received 18-kilowatts of photovoltaic solar panels to help power its Parkwood Technology Centre, a community education... →

Interalloys Announces Investment Boost For Northern Cape Economy

3rd February 2017 UK registered Interalloys Trading Ltd, together with black owned business partner, Onicaster (Pty) Ltd, announced plans to invest $50m in the Northern Cape between 2017 and 2019. The latest investment aims to ramp up production at their Rooinekke iron-ore mine, near Griekwastad in the Northern... →

F4SD wants municipal officials fired for not paying Eskom

By: African News Agency 13th January 2017 Municipalities must fire officials responsible for failing to honour arrangements to pay their debts to Eskom, the Forum 4 Service Delivery (F4SD) said on Friday. “We are concerned that all residents,including those who pay for their electricity will be affected when Eskom starts to cut... →

Court dismisses Afriforum’s interdict, Eskom to cut off defaulting municipalities

By: African News Agency 5th January 2017 The North Gauteng High Court on Thursday dismissed with costs AfriForum’s application to prevent Eskom from cutting off power of more than seven municipalities who are billions of rand in arrears. This comes after AfriForum and AfriBusiness sought to interdict Eskom’s planned reduction of the... →

SA’s Class of 2016 improves pass rate to 72.5%

By: African News Agency 4th January 2017 Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga announced on Wednesday that the National Senior Certificate (NSC) class of 2016 had achieved a pass rate of 72.5% – up from the 70.7% in 2015. The 2016 pass rate includes progressed learners – those who had failed Grade 11 twice and been pushed through... →

Troubled Diamondcorp secures repayment standstill

By: Martin Creamer 19th December 2016 Troubled diamond mining company DiamondCorp is being given a repayment breather by South Africa’s State-owned Industrial Development Corporation (IDC). The JSE-listed company, headed by CEO Paul Loudon, said on Monday that the IDC had agreed a loan repayment standstill until the completion of the... →

Results Of 2016 International Coastal Clean-Up For Cape Provinces Released

12th December 2016 According to the results of the 20th International Coastal Clean-Up (ICC) that took place on Saturday, the 17th of September 2016, glass bottles and pieces and paper bags have taken over from PET bottles and bottle caps as macro pollutants on Cape beaches. Good turn-out of volunteers The ICC is... →

Four men jailed for one year for unlawful diamond mining in Northern Cape

By: African News Agency 1st December 2016 Four men have each been sentenced to one year in prison after they were convicted of illegal mining in Northern Cape, police said on Thursday. Spokesperson captain Philani Nkwalase said the four men were arrested in April for mining diamonds illegally on De Beers mining area in Kleinzee, a small... →

SENTECH Enables Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) Migration

28th October 2016 Friday, 28th October 2016 marks the beginning of the Analogue Switch-Off (ASO) in South Africa. This major national milestone forms part of the country’s Broadcasting Digital Migration (BDM) process, and will begin in the Northern Cape within the Square Kilometer Array (SKA). This event will... →

Maximising Production Through Standby Power Generation Solutions

18th October 2016 Cummins has ensured uninterrupted power supply at Peninsula Beverages (PenBev) – a Cape Town-based independent bottling company that holds the rights to manufacture and distribute the products of The Coca-Cola Company within the Western and Northern Cape – after the successful supply,... →

Govt working on out-of-court charter settlement – Deputy Minister

By: Martin Creamer 5th October 2016 President Jacob Zuma has instructed the government to work hard to arrive at an out-of-court settlement on Mining Charter Three, Deputy Minerals Minister Godfrey Oliphant disclosed on Wednesday. Speaking at the Joburg Indaba, Oliphant said that the intention was to finalise the issue by the end... →

Jacobs Capital & Vulindlela Holdings Invest in Summit Crane Hire

21st September 2016 Durban based private equity investors, Jacobs Capital and Vulindlela Holdings, have purchased a majority stake in leading mobile crane hire company, Summit, for an undisclosed sum. The company, which is the market leader in the Western Cape and has a presence in the Eastern and Northern Cape, has... →

SA population balloons to 55.91m

By: News24Wire 25th August 2016 South Africa’s population is estimated to be 55.91-million of which 51% are female, according to Statistics South Africa’s mid-year calculations. Announcing the figures at a media conference in Pretoria on Thursday, statistician general Pali Lehohla said migration is an important demographic... →

SA farmers hope for enough rain after winter

By: Simon Sonnekus 5th August 2016 The next five months and the following planting season will be critical for farmers who have been affected by the devastating drought which crippled the agriculture sector recently. According to agricultural organisation AgriSA CEO Omri van Zyl, farmers need to see out the winter and hope for... →

Water Woes - Win a Water Tank with Engen

21st June 2016 Engen Petroleum, a leading producer and marketer of fuels, lubricants and oil-based products, has responded to South Africa’s water crisis in the drought-stricken provinces of Free State, Northern Cape, North West and KwaZulu-Natal, as well as in Lesotho. The average rainfall for South Africa in... →

Legal discretion dogging mine safety inquiries – Webber Wentzel

By: Martin Creamer 10th June 2016 The only certainty about current enforcement of South Africa’s Mine Health and Safety Act is consistent uncertainty, says Webber Wentzel partner Kate Collier. Addressing a seminar on the way the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) approaches senior mine management in the aftermath of serious... →

Electricity connections rise to 85.5% – Stats SA

By: News24Wire 3rd June 2016 Eskom took credit for accelerating the number of households connected to the electricity supply, after Stats SA revealed on Thursday that levels increased “consistently from 77.1% in 2002 to 85.5% in 2015”. This as Stats SA also revealed that electricity generation increased by a relatively small... →

Municipalities improve audit outcomes, but AG concerned about irregular, wasteful spending

By: African News Agency 1st June 2016 The number of South African municipalities which received clean audits increased from 13 to 54 in the last five financial years, Auditor General (AG) Kimi Makwetu revealed Wednesday. Releasing the 2014/15 audit outcomes, Makwetu said this number shot up to 72 if one included the 18 municipal... →

Saudi group keen to expand South African solar footprint well beyond Bokpoort

By: Terence Creamer 13th May 2016 Located on a dead flat piece of land about an hour-and-a-half’s drive from Upington and close to the Orange river, the curved solar collector mirrors, gleaming pipes and large molten-salt tanks of the 50 MW Bokpoort concentrated solar power (CSP) plant stand in stark industrial contrast to the... →

SADC’s real state of power and the case for renewable energy

By: Creamer Media Reporter 6th May 2016 By Greg Austin Agility, flexibility and new thinking are required to solve the power-stressed Southern African region’s energy crisis →

Oceans economy initiative unlocking billions in investment, Zuma says in Port Elizabeth

By: African News Agency 8th April 2016 Nelson Mandela Bay executive mayor Danny Jordaan on Friday thanked President Jacob Zuma for bringing investment to the metro. Jordaan was speaking at the port of Port Elizabeth where Zuma and a number of ministers attended an event for an update on the implementation of Operation Phakisa, the... →

Large-scale solar farm entrenches Northern Cape as South Africa’s sun-power capital

By: David Oliveira 8th April 2016 Renewable-energy project developer Solar Capital last month inaugurated the second phase of its De Aar solar farm project, in the Northern Cape, with De Aar 3 adding 90 MW of capacity to the overall project. This was in addition to the first phase of the project, the 85 MW De Aar 1 solar farm,... →

Molten salt energy storage used in S Africa CSP project

8th April 2016 The Bokpoort concentrated solar power (CSP) project in the Northern Cape is one of the few CSP projects that use heat exchanger as a diffusion medium for the energy stored inside the molten salt. The R5-billion project has one of the highest solar radiation footprints in the world and is being... →

De Aar solar project expanded to 175 MW

30th March 2016 Renewable-energy project developer Solar Capital last month inaugurated the second phase of its De Aar solar farm project, in the Northern Cape, with De Aar 3 adding 90 MW of capacity to the overall project. →

De Aar solar project expanded to 175 MW

By: David Oliveira 17th March 2016 Renewable-energy project developer Solar Capital has inaugurated the second phase of its De Aar solar farm project, with De Aar 3 adding 90 MW of capacity to the overall project. This was in addition to the first phase of the project, the 85 MW De Aar 1 solar farm, which came on line in August 2014. →

'Our names will be on the Hakskeenpan stones forever'

By: News24Wire 3rd March 2016 “I think I picked up well over a thousand stones since I started here in 2010. I actually lost count after a few days, but if I were to guess it was way more than a thousand,” says Rista Isaacs as she bends and picks up a stone – it has become something of a habit. Isaacs stands next to... →

South African wind farms R12 billion investment, ready to produce electricity in July 2016

5th February 2016 A consortium led by Mainstream Renewable Power last night received the award for Best Wind Deal, Middle East and Africa at the annual Project Finance International awards dinner held at the Hilton, Park Lane in London. Considered to be the most prestigious event in the global project finance... →

Mainstream Consortium wins Best Wind Deal – Middle East and Africa at Annual

4th February 2016 A consortium led by Mainstream Renewable Power last night received the award for Best Wind Deal, Middle East and Africa at the annual Project Finance International awards dinner held at the Hilton, Park Lane in London. Considered to be the most prestigious event in the global project finance... →

N Cape Premier seeks debt deal with Eskom

By: News24Wire 2nd February 2016 Sylvia Lucas, the Premier of the Northern Cape, will lead a high-level meeting with power utility Eskom on Tuesday following power cuts to five municipalities last week. The Magareng, Thembelihle, Ubuntu, Dikgatlong and Renosterberg municipalities in the Northern Cape owe Eskom about R113-million... →

Eskom pulls plug on defaulting NC municipalities

By: News24Wire 29th January 2016 Eskom on Friday interrupted power supply to five Northern Cape municipalities due to non-payment. The affected municipalities are Magareng, Thembelihle, Ubuntu, Dikgatlong and Renosterberg. →

Small business dept to hold stakeholder engagement over review of legislation

By: Natalie Greve 25th January 2016 The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) is embarking on a nationwide consultation process to solicit inputs from stakeholders on the review of the National Small Business Act and the National Small Business Amendment Act, as well as engage stakeholders on the proposed national minimum... →

Nersa cancels public hearings in three provinces

By: Megan van Wyngaardt 20th January 2016 The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has cancelled public hearings relating to Eskom’s Regulatory Clearing Account (RCA) application for the first year of the third multiyear price determination period, in the Free State, Mpumalanga and Limpopo. The hearings, which would have... →

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