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Cape Town pays out more than R25m in Cash for Power programme
The City of Cape Town says businesses and households have earned more than R25.8-million under the city’s Cash for Power programme since the start of the 2022/23 financial year. This comes after...
Global unrest fuelling shipping costs, consumers to feel it within a year – Unctad
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) estimates that transits passing through the Suez Canal have decreased by 42% compared with its peak, owing to attacks on Red Sea...
Households can now apply to sell their excess solar power to the City of Cape Town
The City of Cape Town is now enabling households to earn cash for the power generated from their solar photovoltaic generation systems. Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says a first round of applications...
Suzuki ends 2023 just shy of 50 000 unit sales, starts January with a bang
Suzuki Auto South Africa (Suzuki SA) ended 2023 with sales of 49 573 vehicles – up more than 460% from the 8 833 vehicles sold in 2017. Over the past six years, the Japanese compact-car specialist,...
Vehicle crime ramped up towards end of last year, says Tracker
Tracker’s vehicle crime statistics for July to December last year show an increase in vehicle crime, with a peak in November. Data from the asset tracking company also shows that a business-owned...
Premium car market outlook murky as South Africans continue to hunt for Asian bargains
The South African new-car market has been shifting steadily over the last few years as consumers continue to battle persistent economic headwinds. Times are tough. Interest rates, living costs,...
Premium car market outlook murky as South Africans continue to hunt for Asian bargains
The South African new-car market has been shifting steadily over the last few years as consumers continue to battle persistent economic headwinds. Times are tough. Interest rates, living costs,...
Lake Victoria freight vessel aims to cut travel time by up to three days
The Mpungu freight vessel has made its debut on Lake Victoria, in East Africa. The Mpungu will be Lake Victoria’s first scheduled roll-on/roll-off freight vessel, addressing the need for a reliable...
Auto industry pleased with EV allocation, but more will be needed – Naamsa
Naamsa | The Automotive Business Council has welcomed the announcementby Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana in his Budget Speech on Wednesday that government will offer financial support for the...
Cape Town’s Mayco recommends extending the N2 Express MyCiTi bus service contract
Cape Town’s Mayoral Committee has recommended that the city extends the operating contract of the N2 Express bus service for another two years, until June 30, 2026. This is to allow for the...
Volkswagen Africa builds 1.5-millionth export vehicle
Volkswagen Group Africa (VWA) this week celebrated building the 1.5-millionth vehicle built at the Kariega plant for the export market. The milestone vehicle, a Polo GTI destined for the UK, also...
Milken-Motsepe finalists in South Africa to showcase their off-grid, green energy designs
Bold, scaleable and collaborative – these are the three characteristics of the project that will clinch the $1-million Milken–Motsepe Prize in Green Energy, says Milken Institute senior director Dr...
Cape Town greenlights fund to help build rental units in lower-income communities
The City of Cape Town Mayoral Committee (Mayco) has greenlit the creation of a Development Charges Fund to support micro-developers in building affordable housing in lower-income communities. The...
Fuel price hike will impact consumers and the road freight industry – RFA
Fuel is rapidly crossing the 50% mark as a share of daily road transport operating costs, depending on the type of transport operation, with rising costs likely to be passed on to the consumer,...
New-vehicle sales slide continues
New-vehicle sales declined by 3.8% in January, to 41 636 units, compared with the same month last year. This continued the decline in new-vehicle sales witnessed in the last five months of 2023.
Antidumping duties to be slapped on Chinese windscreens
The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition will impose antidumping duties on windscreens imported from China, to be used in the Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) area as replacement...
Initial signs energy supply is stabilising, logistics to endure for longer – Minerals Council
The domestic mining industry is looking at 2024 as a year of stabilisation, rather than growth, says Minerals Council South Africa CEO Mzila Mthenjane. The industry continues to face persistent...
Electric buses to be rolled out in Tshwane, eThekwini
Tshwane and eThekwini could see the roll-out of 39 electric commuter buses by the end of next year. The introduction of the zero-emissions vehicles will form part of a pilot project funded by the...
Cape Town to invest R43bn in infrastructure in the next three years – mayor
Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says the city will invest R43-billion in infrastructure over the next three years. The ten-year project pipeline is valued at R120-billion.
Subdued growth expected in transport sector; more freight going to Maputo – Ctrack index
The Ctrack Transport and Freight Index (Ctrack TFI) forecasts “another year of fairly subdued growth for the transport sector”. This is based on the assumption of mediocre economic growth in South...
Suzuki ends 2023 just shy of 50 000 units, starts January with a bang
Suzuki Auto South Africa (Suzuki SA) ended 2023 with sales of 49 573 vehicles – up more than 460% from the 8 833 vehicles sold in 2017. Over the past six years, the Japanese compact-car specialist,...
Hino to double solar energy output at its Durban plant
Hino South Africa (SA) will this year double the energy output from the solar roof panel project at its truck assembly plant in Durban, says VP Anton Falck. “Currently the roof panels provide 600...
Vehicle crime ramped up towards the end of 2023 – Tracker
Tracker’s vehicle crime statistics for July to December last year show an increase in vehicle crime, with a peak in November. Data from the asset tracking company also shows that a business-owned...
Households can now apply to sell their excess solar power to the City of Cape Town
The City of Cape Town is now enabling households to earn cash for the power generated from their solar photovoltaic generation systems. Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis says a first round of applications...
2024 Car of the Year finalists announced
The South African Guild of Mobility Journalists (SAGMJ) has announced the 18 finalists of the Old Mutual Insure 2024 Car of the Year (COTY) competition. “We eagerly await the upcoming competition...
VW could announce third production model this year; expects uptick in 2024 car market
Volkswagen Group Africa (VWA) will hopefully this year receive the final confirmation on the production of a third model at the Kariega plant, says MD Martina Biene. This third model will add to...
Cape Town recovers 53 km of stolen cable, 1.2 t of metal
The City of Cape Town’s (CoCT’s) specialist metals theft unit, the Copperheads, recovered more then 53 km of stolen cable during the last six months of 2023. The unit says it executed 404...
Transnet needs ‘the right, permanent management, quickly’ – Stellenbosch University academic
State-owned rail and port operator Transnet could, potentially, show significant improvement this year, compared with last year’s dismal performance, says transport economist and macrologistics...
Construction of Stellantis’ R3bn Coega auto assembly plant poised to start in May
Construction work on Stellantis’ assembly plant in the Coega Special Economic Zone, in the Eastern Cape, should kick off in May, says the vehicle manufacturer’s new CEO, Mike Whitfield. The start...
Volkswagen spends big to counter loadshedding as it becomes sole Polo supplier
Volkswagen Group South Africa, now trading as Volkswagen Group Africa (VWA), is investing R55-million to generate 3 MW in additional solar energy for its assembly plant in Kariega, in the Eastern...
Initial signs that energy sector is stabilising; logistics to take longer – Minerals Council
The domestic mining industry is looking at 2024 as a year of stabilisation, rather than growth, says Minerals Council South Africa CEO Mzila Mthenjane. The industry continues to face persistent...
Cape Town reports nearly R4bn boost from 2023 events
The City of Cape Town has reported an almost R4-billion boost from the raft of events hosted in the Western Cape capital last year. The events include Africa’s first Netball World Cup, the ICC...
Multibillion-rand Cape Winelands Airport aims to receive first passengers in 2027
Cape Town’s proposed second big commercial airport, Cape Winelands Airport (CWA), should receive its first passengers in 2027, says RSA.Aero MD Nick Ferguson. RSA.Aero is the project developer,...
Port of Maputo reports record volume for 2023
The Maputo Port Development Company (MPDC) says the Port of Maputo achieved a record volume of 31.2-million tons in 2023, up 16% on the previous year. MPDC is a public–private partnership between...
Yet another negative month for new-vehicle sales
New-vehicle sales declined by 3.8% in January, to 41 636 units, compared with the same month last year. This continued the decline in new-vehicle sales witnessed in the last five months of 2023.
DP World, Woolworths unveil axle-powered refrigeration trailer
Logistics group DP World has partnered with food and clothing retailer Woolworths to roll out a refrigeration trailer featuring AxlePower technology. AxlePower “transforms ordinary road transport...
Stellantis plant to break ground in May; Citroën key as volume brand going forward – Whitfield
Construction work on Stellantis’ assembly plant in the Coega Special Economic Zone, in the Eastern Cape, should kick off in May, says the vehicle manufacturer’s new CEO Mike Whitfield. The start of...
Cape Town’s Copperheads unit recovers 53 km of stolen cable, 1.2 t of metal
The City of Cape Town’s (CoCT’s) specialist metals theft unit, the Copperheads, has recovered more than 53 km of stolen cable during the last six months of 2023. The unit says it executed 404...
Transnet needs ‘the right, permanent management, quickly’ – Havenga
State-owned rail and port operator Transnet could, potentially, show significant improvement this year compared with last year’s dismal performance, says transport economist and macrologistics...
Ranger, Toyota dominated used car sales in 2023 – AutoTrader
The number of used-car sales last year increased by 4.6% compared with 2022, this according to AutoTrader data. Overall, 367 075 used cars changed hands, at an average selling price of R399 163.
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