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Shell appeals $2bn judgment in Nigeria pollution case

By: Bloomberg 21st January 2022 A Nigerian court will hear Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s appeal to overturn an almost $2 billion award against the company for allegedly spilling oil in the West African country. The energy giant is challenging a November 2020 judgment in favor of community members claiming a leak from a company... →

SA to get $750-million World Bank loan to boost economic recovery

By: News24Wire 21st January 2022 The World Bank announced on Friday morning that it had approved South Africa’s request for $750-million (about R11.4-billion) loan. "This loan will support the government of South Africa’s efforts to accelerate its Covid-19 response aimed at protecting the poor and vulnerable from the adverse... →

South Africa bolsters genomics capability to hunt deadly disease

By: Bloomberg 21st January 2022 South Africa is enhancing its capacity to identify and respond to emerging pathogens and deadly diseases after leading global efforts to identify new strains of the coronavirus. The expansion will help “Africa to become a world leader in genomics surveillance and bring technologies to South... →

Magazine round up | 21 January 2022

21st January 2022 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →

Engineering News and Mining Weekly Magazine Cover

Magazine round up | 21 January 2022

Firms and households tap rooftop power as load-shedding risk lingers

By: Natasha Odendaal 21st January 2022 Improving technologies, which reduce deployment costs, as well as lower tariffs and thousands of hours of sunshine every year, along with the continued challenges of State-owned power utility Eskom’s load-shedding, will likely drive more citizens and businesses to adopt solar photovoltaic (PV)... →

Engineering News and Mining Weekly cover image

Eskom seeks to show prudency of running diesel plants as its pegs cost of load-shedding at R9.53/kWh

By: Terence Creamer 20th January 2022 State-owned electricity producer Eskom sought to demonstrate the economic prudency of running the diesel-fuelled open-cycle gas turbines (OCGTs) harder to mitigate load-shedding during the fourth day of National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) public hearings into its latest allowable... →

Tiger Brands appoints Barati Mahloele as venture capital fund director

By: Tasneem Bulbulia 20th January 2022 South African packaged goods company Tiger Brands has appointed Barati Mahloele as the company’s venture capital fund director. She joins the business from Zebu Investment Partners where she was VP of investments. →

Renewable alternatives critical to support Mpumalanga’s decarbonisation drive

By: Tasneem Bulbulia 20th January 2022 The transformation and decarbonisation of the South African energy system is gathering momentum; however, a regional plan is required for the coal mining region of Mpumalanga, to prevent considerable economic and socioeconomic losses and ensure a just transition, and a push for renewable energy... →

World air speed records for Rolls-Royce-led electric aircraft officially confirmed

By: Rebecca Campbell 20th January 2022 Renowned UK-based propulsion and technology systems group Rolls-Royce announced on Thursday that its ‘Spirit of Innovation’ technology demonstrator aircraft had been officially declared the world’s fastest all-electric aircraft. The international body responsible for controlling and certifying... →

Photo by Rolls-Royce
The ‘Spirit of Innovation’ aircraft

Aveng grows order book, expects solid interim performance

By: Marleny Arnoldi 20th January 2022 JSE-listed construction group Aveng has grown its order book to R29.1-billion as at December 31. This includes A$1.1-billion worth of work won by its Australia-focused subsidiary McConnell Dowell. →

Zimbabwe export farm's 510 kW solar PV and 1 MWh battery powering packhouse, cold storage

By: Schalk Burger 20th January 2022 A 510 kW and 1 MWh solar photovoltaic (PV) and battery storage installation to power the packhouse and cold store facilities of Zimbabwean agricultural company Nhimbe Fresh has started generating electricity. The $1.4-million project was funded through a crowd-sale completed by solar leasing... →

South African growth projected at 2% this year; inflation, employment to remain challenges

By: Schalk Burger 20th January 2022 The research team of financial services firm Nedbank has predicted that South Africa's economy will grow by 2% this year, although the recovery will be uneven for industries. In addition, load-shedding more severe than Stages 1 and 2 could reduce growth by 20 basis points, it cautions. →

DWS concerned about possible liquid gas chlorine shortages that could affect water supply

By: Creamer Media Reporter 20th January 2022 The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) is monitoring a potential supply shortage of liquid gas chlorine, which could impact the treatment of potable water and effluent water managed by water service authorities (WSA’s), metropolitans and water boards. “The DWS is aware of the incident... →

Audi rolls out ultrafast 150 kW EV charging network in South Africa

By: Irma Venter 20th January 2022 Audi South Africa (SA) is partnering with GridCars to install ultrafast electric vehicle (EV) charging stations across the country. In doing this, the local arm of the German car maker says it will become the first EV brand to invest in this technology at publicly accessible sites. →

CSIR, DSI and NRF establish smart mobility research chair

By: Irma Venter 20th January 2022 The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) and the National Research Foundation (NRF) have jointly established a research chair in smart mobility, the first of its kind in South Africa. Professor Marianne Vanderschuren, an expert in... →

Save the Vaal Environment says Emfuleni wastewater treatment system remains dysfunctional

By: Creamer Media Reporter 20th January 2022 Save the Vaal Environment (Save) said that none of the three Emfuleni wastewater treatment plants are meeting the requirements of their waste water licences and stated that the impression that the Sedibeng Sewage Scheme is on track is erroneous. “The existing Emfuleni wastewater treatment system... →

Consultancy releases comprehensive map of Southern Africa Power Pool

By: Marleny Arnoldi 20th January 2022 Consultancy AmaranthCX has published a new electronic map of the electricity infrastructure in countries that are part of the Southern Africa Power Pool (SAPP) for use with Google Earth or Google Maps. The map geolocates 317 operating power stations across the 11 member countries of SAPP, as... →

Godongwana to table 'inaugural' budget on 23 February

By: News24Wire 20th January 2022 Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana will table the national budget on 23 February, 2022. The ministry of finance on Thursday issued an advisory - highlighting that this would be the minister's "inaugural" speech. Godongwana was appointed finance minister in August 2021, relieving his predecessor,... →

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana

African carrier has world’s youngest airliner fleet

By: Rebecca Campbell 20th January 2022 International airline intelligence, data and news company ch-aviation has announced that Uganda Airlines has been identified as the operator of the youngest airliner fleet in the world, for the second year in succession. The African carrier’s fleet has an average age of just 1.95 years. “The... →

North West establishes committee to deal with national disaster bought on by recent floods

By: Yvonne Silaule 20th January 2022 The North West MEC for Cooperative Governance, Human Settlements and Traditional Affairs Lenah Miga will lead a committee, established by North West Premier Bushy Maape, to develop a response plan to deal with the disaster brought on by the recent floods across the province. Miga made the... →

Global FDI strongly rebounded in 2021 – Unctad

By: Marleny Arnoldi 20th January 2022 Global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows showed a strong rebound in 2021 with growth of 77% to an estimated $1.65-trillion, compared with $929-billion in 2020, reports United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad). Investment flows not only recovered but surpassed the... →

5G, integration key to unlocking South African technology value

By: Schalk Burger 20th January 2022 Most South African companies, 80%, are adopting digital technologies and 78% plan to invest in fifth generation- (5G-) enabled campus networks. However, 65% of executives perceive tremendous challenges in navigating the network and digital technology integration complexity, extracting return on... →

Busa asks Mbalula to review regulations preventing road transport of high-cube containers

By: Donna Slater 20th January 2022 Business Unity South Africa (Busa) is requesting Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula to urgently review applicable regulations that make it illegal to transport high-cube shipping containers on South African roads. High-cube containers are the same length (12.19 m) and width (2.44 m) as a standard... →

Rain blamed for Phelophepa II Healthcare Train derailment

By: Darren Parker 20th January 2022 Seven coaches of the Phelophepa II Healthcare Train derailed near Adelaide, in the Eastern Cape, at about 18:05 on January 19. State-owned rail operator Transnet’s corporate social investment arm Transnet Foundation health portfolio senior manager Shamona Kandia tells Engineering News that the... →

A photo of one of the Phelophepa Healthcare Trains

The Phelophepa Healthcare Trains provide health services across South Africa

South Africa declares national disaster after rain, flood damage

By: Bloomberg 20th January 2022 South Africa has declared a national disaster after torrential rains in several parts of the country resulted in deaths, flooding and damage to property and infrastructure, according to a notice in the Government Gazette. Declaring a national disaster lays the basis for financial and humanitarian... →

Vaal dam water levels improve

By: Natasha Odendaal 20th January 2022 The water levels of the Vaal dam have improved 3.3%, reaching 110.5% as rainfall continues inland. The latest information released by the Department of Water and Sanitation shows that, last week, the dam stood at 105.4%, while last year at the same time it was at 71.4%. →

Early copper/zinc production investigations under way at Orion’s Prieska

By: Martin Creamer 20th January 2022 The executive team of Orion Minerals is re-evaluating the development schedule of the Prieska copper-zinc project to assess the potential for its fast-tracking. Also flagged is the opportunity to extract pillars left by historic mining. →

Orion CEO Errol Smart interviewed by Mining Weekly’s Martin Creamer. Video Editing: Darlene Creamer

Eskom says some industrial customers require ‘urgent’ assistance, but urges targeted subsidies

By: Terence Creamer 19th January 2022 Eskom has acknowledged that urgent interventions are needed to assist certain large industrial customers, some of which are competing with international companies whose electricity is subsidised, to navigate the transition to cost-reflective electricity tariffs. In a presentation on the third day... →

Photo by Creamer Media's Donna Slater
Eskom CFO Calib Cassim at a previous Nersa hearing

DoT, PRASA rehabilitating, reopening Mabopane rail commuter line

By: Schalk Burger 19th January 2022 The Department of Transport (DoT) and the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) are making progress with the R1.4-billion programme to upgrade infrastructure and implement refurbishments to reopen the Mabopane Corridor, with Pienaarspoort to Pretoria and Mabopane to Pretoria services... →

Wine exports make healthy recovery in 2021

By: Donna Slater 19th January 2022 Despite being negatively impacted by a series of local alcohol sales bans, global freight and localised port issues and a shortage of glass and packaging materials, export volumes of South African wine recovered to a healthier volume of 388-million litres, while the total value of local exports... →

Coca-Cola Africa to leverage sparkling drinks strength to expand in other drinks categories

By: Schalk Burger 19th January 2022 Sub-Saharan African bottling subsidiary Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) has said its strategy is to secure organic growth in the 14 markets it serves by leveraging its market share of sparkling drinks to expand in adjacent product categories and its ability to invest to support its strategy to... →

Modern disruptions priming chemicals industry for new way of doing business – Chieta

By: Donna Slater 19th January 2022 Despite the chemicals industry being the fifth hardest-hit industry globally as a result of supply chain challenges, oil price fluctuations and deglobalisation, the disruption has “primed” the industry for new business models, new partnerships and a new approach to problem-solving, says Chemical... →

Chieta CEO Yershen Pillay

Bridging ICT infrastructure gap critical, requires innovative funding

By: Tasneem Bulbulia 19th January 2022 Creative new investment solutions are required to fund information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure that can accelerate the rollout of fast, unlimited Internet and provide low-income households with access to quality affordable data that can bridge the digital divide, Old Mutual... →

Ramaphosa, billionaire Soon-Shiong open NantSA vaccine production campus in Cape Town

By: Irma Venter 19th January 2022 The NantSA vaccine manufacturing campus at Brackengate, in Cape Town, could soon produce its first Covid-19 vaccine, says NantWorks founder and CEO Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong. President Cyril Ramaphosa and Soon-Shiong on Wednesday officially opened the NantSA facility. →

President Cyril Ramaphosa and Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong cut the ribbon on the NantSA facility

Accelerated business transformation to drive M&A in 2022

By: Tasneem Bulbulia 19th January 2022 International law firm Herbert Smith Freehills’s (HSF’s) 2022 M&A report, its fifth yearly edition, confirms record global levels of mergers and acquisition (M&A) activity in 2021, and identifies continued drivers for strong activity this year. According to the HSF Global M&A head Gavin Davies,... →

BLSA accepts Bain’s membership withdrawal

By: Donna Slater 19th January 2022 Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) has accepted consulting firm Bain’s decision to withdraw from the organisation. BLSA has been criticised for recently re-accepting Bain to its membership after the firm's part in the so-called restructuring of the South African Revenue Service (Sars) to... →

Aarto still enforced until court judgment – Roads Agency

By: Thabi Madiba 19th January 2022 The Road Traffic Infringement Agency informed road users on Wednesday that the provisions under the Administrative Adjudication of the Road Traffic Offences Act are still enforceable until the Constitutional Court makes a judgment on the expected appeal. Last week, the Gauteng High Court in... →

Iata reports that last year’s third quarter saw easing financial pressures on airlines

By: Rebecca Campbell 19th January 2022 Pressure on the operating profitability of the world’s airlines lessened during the third quarter of last year (Q3 2021), the International Air Transport Association (Iata) reported in its latest Airlines Financial Monitor. However, jet fuel prices increased. The improvement in operating... →

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