Energy

South Africa’s welding and cutting sector is facing a critical shortage of competent welding personnel at a time when local manufacturers must meet tougher global quality demands and adopt... 

Investment in high-capacity digital infrastructure and optical networks will become increasingly important as African countries pursue industrialisation, digital transformation and greater economic... 

By Tessa Brewis, Sector Head: Projects & Energy, and Josh Da Costa, Associate, Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr As the Africa Energy Forum returns to Cape Town from 16 to 19 June 2026 under the theme Building... 

Share markets and bonds rallied hard on Monday and oil prices tumbled 5% as a framework peace deal between the US and Iran promised to ease inflationary pressures globally and lessen the need for... 

Energy has a way of making itself felt before it appears in a budget line. When a mine loses shifts to power cuts, or a manufacturer is running diesel generators as a primary source for the third... 

The National Treasury has welcomed credit rating agency Fitch’s decision to upgrade South Africa’s long-term foreign and local currency credit ratings to ‘BB’ from ‘BB-’ and to maintain its stable... 

The yearly tariff-setting process with the Department of Water and Sanitation continued to function as expected as at May 2026.  

Wine industry leaders and stakeholders convened in Stellenbosch, in the Western Cape, this week to assess the future of South African wine, with speakers taking stock of the economic headwinds,... 

In this article by Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) chief economist and group executive Zeph Nhleko, he highlights infrastructure investment as the central lever to break South Africa’s... 

The new foreign affairs era that is already upon us comes with threats but also opportunities. South Africans are duty bound to seize the opportunities and to stave off the threats. An immediate... 

By: Ndapwilapo Selma Shimutwikeni  - Energy and Natural Resources Advisor and Convenor of the Namibia International Energy Conference (NIEC) The Namibia International Energy Conference (NIEC) 2026,... 

South Africa is heading into one of its biggest construction periods in decades. At the South Africa Infrastructure Investment Summit in May 2026, President Cyril Ramaphosa made it clear that... 

German investment in South Africa is likely to continue as German companies target new markets and long-term opportunities, leveraging the country as an entry point into the African market, says... 

Energy prices are projected to surge by 24% this year to their highest level since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, as the war in the Middle East sends a severe shock through global commodity... 

We South Africans must go all out to reduce our reliance on imported energy for as long as the future global order remains uncertain.  We must minimise exposure to geopolitical energy supply shocks... 

(Virtual Showroom) The energy sector demands robust, precise, and adaptable instrumentation to ensure safe and efficient operations across a wide variety of challenging environments. VEGA’s line of... 

Intergovernmental development finance institution, the Opec Fund for International Development has provided a $150-million development policy loan to South Africa, which is aimed at supporting... 

South Africa’s economy remains highly concentrated, with about one-third to one-half of 228 economic subsectors still ranked as highly or moderately concentrated; however, there are positive trends... 

Maintenance work in industrial environments such as silos, blast furnaces, co-generation plants, and boilers often face access challenges related to space constraints, sometimes limited to a 45 cm...