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Rooftop solar could save municipalities billions on bulk electricity purchases
Rooftop solar could save municipalities billions on bulk electricity purchases
21st July 2026 By: Terence Creamer

By adopting a cooperative rather than an oppositional stance towards rooftop solar, Gauteng municipalities in particular have an immediate opportunity to reduce the cost of their bulk purchases of electricity, a new report shows. This cost saving... 


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IEA says substantial emergency oil stocks remain after record release
21st July 2026 By: Reuters

The International Energy Agency's (IEA) member countries still hold substantial emergency oil stocks in reserve despite the largest coordinated release of strategic reserves on record, it said on... 


DRDGOLD COO Jaco Schoeman.
Mammoth regional tailings dam is centrepiece of DRDGOLD’s R10bn expansion
21st July 2026 By: Martin Creamer

The centrepiece of the R10-billion five-project Vision 2028 of DRDGOLD is the mammoth regional tailings storage facility (RTSF) at Far West Gold Recoveries surface retreatment operation, near... 


Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Parks Tau
Tau stresses importance of the defence industry
20th July 2026 By: Rebecca Campbell

Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Parks Tau has lauded the South African defence industry’s (SADI’s) contribution to the national economy. He was delivering the keynote address at the... 


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City welcomes Transnet's call for private partners for the Port of Cape Town
20th July 2026 By: Schalk Burger

The City of Cape Town welcomes State-owned Transnet's call for private sector partners to upgrade and operate the multipurpose terminal at the Port of Cape Town. Transnet’s request for proposals is... 


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Phillips questions need for middlemen, slams practice of overcharging Transnet
20th July 2026 By: Irma Venter

Transnet group CEO Michelle Phillips says the State-owned rail, ports and pipeline logistics group is putting measures in place to ensure that it no longer over-pays for goods and services.... 


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SA municipal debt is dominated by one creditor: Eskom
SA municipal debt is dominated by one creditor: Eskom
17th July 2026

South Africa’s National Treasury declared it would temporarily withhold funding to 69 municipalities to force them to fix their problems, which include unfunded budgets, irregular and wasteful... 


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World Bank facility extended to support water, sanitation sector reforms in South Africa
20th July 2026 By: Schalk Burger

The new $1.5-billion loan from International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) to South Africa, the fourth stand-alone Development Policy Loan to the country since 2022, aims to... 


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Embraer forecasts demand for 8 500 smaller jetliners by 2045, 370 for Africa
20th July 2026 By: Rebecca Campbell

Brazil-based major global aerospace group Embraer has released its market forecast for jet airliners with fewer than 150 seats, covering the next 20 years. Globally, the company expects 8 500... 


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dtic to host conference targeting South Africa’s essential oils market
20th July 2026 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (dtic), in partnership with the Southern African Essential Oil Producers’ Association, the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco) and... 


DRDGOLD CFO Henriette Hooijer.
Timing of R10bn capital spend ‘could not have been better’, DRDGOLD CFO points out
20th July 2026 By: Martin Creamer

When the R10-billion five-project Vision 2028 expansion plan of Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed surface gold company DRDGOLD was conceived in 2024, its market capitalisation was about... 


ACTOM Group CEO Mervyn Naidoo
Better procurement strategy can expand South Africa's industrial base
20th July 2026 By: Schalk Burger

With smarter localisation, clearer procurement rules and a more deliberate industrial strategy, public spending could again become a powerful engine for rebuilding factories, expand supply chains... 


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PRO Alliance, ARO, SAWPA collaborate to register, compensate waste pickers
20th July 2026 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

Member organisation the PRO Alliance, mass-based democratic organisation the African Reclaimers Organisation (ARO) and registered waste pickers organisation the South African Waste Pickers... 


BLSA CEO Busisiwe Mavuso
South Africa's financial resilience built up by fiscal reforms; broader reforms must continue – BLSA
20th July 2026 By: Schalk Burger

The resilience shown by the South African economy since re-escalation of the US-Israel and Iran war, with the rand holding up better than it has during past global shocks, is a direct result of a... 


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National Water Access Acceleration Programme officially launched
20th July 2026 By: Natasha Odendaal

South Africa has launched the National Water Access Acceleration Programme, through the decentralised water supply schemes, amid the need to expand access to safe and reliable water to underserved... 


Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana
Lawfulness of temporarily withholding equitable share from 69 municipalities scrutinised
17th July 2026 By: Terence Creamer

The National Treasury’s temporary withholding of the transfer of the July equitable share funds to 69 municipalities came under intense scrutiny in Parliament on Friday, where questions were raised... 


Representatives from the organisations behind South Africa’s pioneering Rooibos in Space initiative gathered to mark the launch of this landmark collaboration. From left: MaxIQ Space founder and director Judi Sandrock; Western Cape Education Department deputy director-general: curriculum and assessment management Bertram Loriston; SARAO postdoctoral fellow Dr Kelebogile Gasealahwe; a participant dressed in a replica Apollo 11 astronaut suit, holding the NanoLab in which the Rooibos seeds will be housed aboard the International Space Station; SANSA science engagement manager 
Thandile Vuntu; South African Rooibos Council director Dawie de Villiers; and City of Cape Town Economic Growth MMC Alderman James Vos.
Rooibos seeds to be sent into space
17th July 2026 By: Rebecca Campbell

In an initiative developed by the South African Rooibos Council (SARC), which is the representative and promotion body for rooibos processors, packers and brand owners, seeds from the rooibos plant... 


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A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader.
Magazine round up | 17 July 2026

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

LONG SHADOW: The outbreak, this year, of the Ebola virus in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo involved a combination of factors that made it particularly difficult to contain. It involved the rare Bundibugyo strain, which has no approved vaccine. The number of confirmed cases rose rapidly, along with the death toll. It also occurred at a time when health funding and aid from international agencies had been reduced. All these factors have hindered containment efforts and underline how decisions taken in one part of the world can cast a long shadow elsewhere.
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LONG SHADOW

The outbreak, this year, of the Ebola virus in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo involved a combination of factors that made it particularly difficult to contain. It involved the rare... 

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Let’s pick up our tools and build a better South Africa

When we seek unity, we must not be looking for uniformity but divergent good. Collectively, we can give ourselves far more than anyone can take away. Let’s pick up our tools and build big and small... 

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Think electricity

Global statistics continue to reaffirm the role of electricity as the future dominant energy carrier. More and more energy services are being electrified, including through electric vehicles, while... 

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Deon de Kock, CEO: Africa at Babcock International Group
Deon de Kock

This week we profile Deon de Kock, CEO: Africa at Babcock International Group, a FTSE 100-listed international defence company  

PROCUREMENT & LOCALISATION: South Africa has, for years, had an official policy of using public procurement to bolster local industry. Implementing that policy has not been straightforward, either commercially or legally, however. Given ongoing deindustrialisation, calls for a more strategic approach to localisation are intensifying. Regulations accompanying the Public Procurement Act, which have been out for comment in recent months, are meant to offer something of a solution, but it is far from certain that they will.
PROCUREMENT & LOCALISATION

South Africa has, for years, had an official policy of using public procurement to bolster local industry. Implementing that policy has not been straightforward, either commercially or legally,... 

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