Press Office - Concor Infrastructure

Concor Infrastructure is well positioned as the leading black owned Tier 1 infrastructure player in South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. The company is already active in all nine provinces locally, and regularly performs contracts in Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries.

Concor Infrastructure offers a broad capability across all infrastructure disciplines including roads, airports, dams, railways, bulk earthworks, mine and township development, specialised concrete repair work and civil engineering.

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Eskom donates learning academy to government for use as quarantine site

By: Tasneem Bulbulia 30th March 2020 To assist in the fight to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, State-owned utility Eskom has handed its Academy of Learning (EAL) centre in Midrand, Johannesburg, over to the government to be used as a quarantine site. The facility, which has 416 beds and other facilities, will be used to accommodate... →

WEC unpacks energy investment needs

By: Marleny Arnoldi 30th March 2020 The World Energy Council’s 2019 World Energy Trilemma Index indicates there has been a step change in progress toward basic access in some African countries, with many having made substantive improvements, particularly in access to energy and clean cooking under the United Nations Sustainable... →

$3bn social bond established to alleviate economic, social impact of Covid-19

By: Simone Liedtke 30th March 2020 The African Development Bank (AfDB) has raised $3-billion in a three-year bond to help alleviate the economic and social impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on livelihoods and Africa’s economies. The Fight Covid-19 Social bond, with a three-year maturity, garnered interest from central banks and... →

Transnet scales back to only essential services, operations

By: Simone Liedtke 27th March 2020 In line with government’s implementation of a three-week lockdown of the country to reduce the spread of the Covid-19 virus, State-owned entity Transnet will be scaling down its transportation services and operations of non-essential cargo during this period. After consultation with various... →

Orex and Pan American Silver form JV to develop Mexico project

By: Tasneem Bulbulia 27th March 2020 Canada-based junior exploration company Orex Minerals has entered into an agreement to form a joint venture (JV) with TSX-listed Pan American Silver, through its subsidiary Plata Panamericana (Pan American), to further explore and develop the Sandra project, formerly the Sandra-Escobar project,... →

Huawei, China Economic Association donate R3m to South Africa’s Covid-19 battle

By: Natasha Odendaal 23rd March 2020 Information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart device provider Huawei has donated R1-million toward South Africa’s efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus, which causes the Covid-19 disease. The South Africa-China Economic and Trade Association, at the Chinese... →

Powering the Future of Global Transportation

By: Creamer Media Reporter 23rd March 2020 In this UL white paper, we explore the trends shaping the electric vehicle (EV) landscape and examine the emerging standards and requirements necessary to innovate and power safer EV technologies. Over the last decade, the growth of electric mobility has continued to increase on a global scale.... →

AMCU reports fatalities at AngloGold, Sibanye mines

By: Marleny Arnoldi 20th March 2020 The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) reported on Friday afternoon that it had learnt of fatalities at AngloGold Ashanti’s Mponeng mine, in Gauteng, and Sibanye-Stillwater’s Thembelani shaft, in the North West. The union said in a statement that the AngloGold incident... →

Opinion: Working together to keep public transport Covid-19 free

20th March 2020 In less than a week South Africans have begun adapting to the declaration of a global pandemic, a national state of disaster and the immediate and widespread disruption to our daily lives. The World Health Organisation’s declaration on 13 March 2020 that the global Covid-19 outbreak constituted a... →

Australian exports going strong, Covid-19 impact still looming

By: Esmarie Iannucci 18th March 2020 New data from the Office of the Chief Economist has shown that Australia’s resource and energy export earnings are forecast to set a record of A$299-billion in 2019-20, an increase of A$18-billion from 2018-19, while the effects of the COVID-19 virus would likely be felt by the resources sector... →

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