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Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa
Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa
Ramokgopa to seek Cabinet approval soon to extend tariff discounts to more industries
Updated 1 hour 48 minutes ago By: Terence Creamer

Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has indicated that he intends approaching Cabinet in the coming weeks to seek approval to extend concessional electricity tariffs similar to those that have already been approved for two... 


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South Africa posts largest current-account surplus since 2022
Updated 6 hours ago By: Bloomberg

South Africa posted its largest current-account surplus in four years in the first quarter as the value of gold exports surged and imports dropped. The balance on the current account — the broadest... 


CIPC announces new digital platforms to improve customer service
Updated 35 minutes ago By: Rebecca Campbell

South African company registration and intellectual property (IP) rights agency, the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC), announced on Thursday the launch of its latest... 


UCT to launch competition to design a new centre in honour of President Nelson Mandela
Updated 33 minutes ago By: Rebecca Campbell

The University of Cape Town (UCT) announced on Thursday that it is to launch a competition for the design of a new facility to honour democratic South Africa’s primary founding father, and first... 


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South Africa’s battery materials supply status surges ahead with new MMC plant
11th June 2026 By: Martin Creamer

South Africa’s supply status in the rapidly evolving and increasingly geopolitically fragmented battery materials market has taken a major leap forward with the completion of the construction by... 


South African steel sector at deindustrialisation ‘inflection point’
South African steel sector at deindustrialisation ‘inflection point’
10th June 2026 By: Terence Creamer

The South African steel industry – encompassing the full value chain, from upstream producers to downstream manufacturers and fabricators – has been described as being at a deindustrialisation... 


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5th June 2026

The standard unemployment rate in South Africa is calculated using only people actively seeking work. A more interesting picture comes from the employment-to-population ratio (aka the labour... 


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Mantashe calls for stronger refining capacity amid global energy instability
10th June 2026 By: Lumkile Nkomfe

Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe has reiterated government’s commitment to strengthening South Africa’s energy security through increased refining capacity, strategic fuel... 


Airlink to open twice weekly flights from Cape Town to Mauritius
10th June 2026 By: Schalk Burger

Airline Airlink will start twice-weekly direct Cape Town to Mauritius flights from October 2, with bookings now open for flights on this route. The new route will be Airlink’s first to the Indian... 


Japan’s Marubeni Corporation acquires TiAuto Investments
Japan’s Marubeni Corporation acquires TiAuto Investments
10th June 2026 By: Irma Venter

Japan-based trading and investment company Marubeni Corporation has acquired South Africa’s automotive retail and services group TiAuto Investments. Founded in 1967, TiAuto is an automotive... 


Afrimat completes disposal, meets obligations of Lafarge acquisition
10th June 2026 By: Schalk Burger

JSE-listed mining and construction materials company Afrimat has disposed of certain general aggregates quarries and readymix concrete plants across South Africa to investment vehicle Saturc. The... 


The Kia Sonet undergoing the crash test in Germany
Safety concerns mount as crash tests deliver yet another set of worrying results – AA
10th June 2026 By: Irma Venter

The newest #SaferCarsForAfrica crash tests have revealed a worrying trend of sub-standard safety in entry-level vehicles across various price points, says the Automobile Association of South Africa... 


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Small modular reactor construction is set to boom, if challenges overcome
10th June 2026 By: Rebecca Campbell

UK-based data, analytics and business intelligence company GlobalData has forecast that global small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) capacity is set to increase by around six-fold over the period... 


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Building confidence drops by a further 4 points in the second quarter
10th June 2026 By: Schalk Burger

After slipping by one point to 42 index points in the first quarter of this year, the business mood in the building sector fell by a further four points to 38 in the second quarter, the FNB/BER... 


CHARGE launches South Africa’s first off-grid EV charging network
CHARGE launches South Africa’s first off-grid EV charging network
10th June 2026

Electric vehicle charging company Zero Carbon Charge has launched two off-grid, solar-powered EV charging stations along the strategic Johannesburg - Durban N3 corridor, marking a significant step... 


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South Africa’s Zandkopsdrift rare earths project highlighted at Junior Indaba
10th June 2026 By: Martin Creamer

The Zandkopsdrift rare earths project in South Africa’s endowed Northern Cape was highlighted on day two of the Junior Indaba, which also learnt of the rapid forward momentum of West Wits Mining’s... 


Zebra Technologies senior account manager Bianca Dalgarno and FarEye cofounder Gautam Kumar, whose companies are technology partners of Bidvest Mobility, speak to Engineering News at the Transport Evolution Africa Forum and Expo in Midrand about the role of digital solutions in transforming transport and logistics. Camerawork and editing: Shadwyn Dickonson.
Bidvest Mobility partners showcase digital logistics solutions at Transport Evolution Africa
10th June 2026 By: Mariaan Webb

Technology partners of Bidvest Mobility, Zebra Technologies and FarEye, highlighted the growing role of digitalisation, automation and AI in improving transport and logistics efficiency at the... 


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Magazine round up | 05 June 2026
Magazine round up | 05 June 2026

A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader.  

LITHIUM EXTRACTION: Chilean mining companies Codelco and SQM are budgeting $3-billion to deploy new extraction technologies at their lithium joint venture in the Atacama Desert. Bloomberg reports that the companies’ Novandino Litio partnership set its latest projection after wrapping up design work on a project to introduce more direct ways to recover lithium from brine under the Atacama salt flat in northern Chile. The venture plans to submit an environmental impact study to regulators in June. Photograph: Bloomberg
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Chilean mining companies Codelco and SQM are budgeting $3-billion to deploy new extraction technologies at their lithium joint venture in the Atacama Desert. Bloomberg reports that the companies’... 

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Deviant financial behaviour must be ruthlessly rooted out

Deeply infuriating is the unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure of a very large number of South Africa’s municipalities. National Treasury’s steps to reform the local... 

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Virtue of necessity

Following an embarrassing false start, the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies has set a deadline of early next year for the finalisation of a new draft of the national AI policy.... 

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This week we profile Darryn Jacobs, MD of SkyJacks, which offers a range of access and lifting equipment and related services  

IN A VICE GRIP: Johannesburg residents and businesses are exposed daily to the spillover effects of municipal mismanagement. Driving is hazardous not only because of the proliferation of potholes, but the lack of road markings, as well as working streetlights and traffic lights. Eskom’s warning that it could interrupt power owing to the City of Johannesburg’s payment delinquency is unlikely to materialise. Nevertheless, the threat itself reinforced just how poorly South Africa’s economic hub is being governed.
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Johannesburg residents and businesses are exposed daily to the spillover effects of municipal mismanagement. Driving is hazardous not only because of the proliferation of potholes, but the lack of... 

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