Covid-19 is pushing back start of Navara production, says Nissan SA . The start of assembly of the one-ton Navara pickup at Nissan South Africa’s (Nissan SA’s) Rosslyn plant, in Pretoria, has been pushed back from November this year to early next year, says Nissan Group ...

ECSA suspends four Satellite Centres in light of Covid-19 . The Covid-19 pandemic has challenged and shifted the premise upon which the Engineering Council of South Africa’s (ECSA’s) Satellite Centres were introduced, leading to the suspension these four centre...

Mapasa says BRL business rescue proceeding well despite some challenges . Progress is being made with the implementation of the business rescue plan of embattled construction company Basil Read Limited (BRL), a subsidiary of Basil Read Holdings Limited (BRHL), “despite chall...

Sasol narrows immediate asset-disposal focus to ‘top ten’ list . Chemicals and energy group Sasol has developed a list of ten major assets that will be prioritised for sale in the coming weeks and months as it moves to streamline the business into what is being term...

Public Enterprises states that four SAA unions willing to accept severance packages . The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) reported on Thursday that four of the unions representing employees of State-owned national flag carrier South African Airways (SAA) had indicated that they w...

Nersa to provide concurrence on technology-specific determination this month . The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) indicated on Thursday that it intended providing concurrence this month for a Ministerial determination that would open the way for the procurement...

Nersa’s Gumede calls for overhaul of ‘outdated’ electricity tariff methodology . National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) fulltime member for electricity Nhlanhla Gumede has called for the regulatory methodology used to set electricity tariffs in South Africa to be overhau...

New study pushes for safer used vehicles to be imported into Africa . A new study by the Automobile Association of South Africa (AA), funded by the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) Region I, shows that the unregulated importation of cars into many Africa...

Sasol confirms Rompco pipeline sale ‘well advanced’ as asset disposal process kicks into gear . Chemicals and energy group Sasol confirmed on July 1 that the sale of its equity interest in the Republic of Mozambique Pipeline Investment Company (Rompco) and the Central Termica de Ressano Garcia ga...

ArcelorMittal SA seeks IPP bids for roll-out of solar PV plants across operations . JSE-listed steel producer ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) has become the latest South African company to release a request for information (RFI) to independent power producers (IPPs) to build, own an...