SAA rescue plan features more bailouts . A draft rescue plan for South African Airways (SAA) contains about R4.6-billion of new bailouts as part of a restructuring aimed at saving the airline from collapse, a copy of the plan showed on Monday...

Ford implements phased restart at vehicle, engine plants . Ford has implemented a phased restart for its South African operations beginning June 1, including kicking off vehicle and engine production and bringing back the first wave of employees who are not ab...

Nissan plant rolls out INTUboxes to hospitals . Local arm of Japanese vehicle maker Nissan and the University of Pretoria (UP) have partnered to create and manufacture INTUboxes.

The INTUbox is a transparent vessel-box which protects health profes...

New SANSA/Nasa project hopefully to start operations in late 2024 . The project for a new deep space network ground station in South Africa, which is a collaborative venture between the South African National Space Agency (Sansa) and its American counterpart, the Natio...

Covid-19 pall hangs over Nampak’s recovery prospects . Packaging group Nampak announced on Friday that impairments of R3-billion, which related to its Nigerian and Angolan operations, had contributed materially to a slump in its interim results for the per...

From field hospitals to ventilator prototypes, government outlines Level 3 readiness . Cabinet’s economic cluster sought to offer assurances on Friday that significant preparations had been made to facilitate a safe transition to a Level 3 lockdown from June 1, which opens the way for th...

Health and safety burden shifts onto firms as Level 3 opens way for big resumption of economic activity . The nationwide transition from lockdown Level 4 to Level 3 on June 1 would facilitate the return to work of almost eight-million more South Africans than had hitherto been allowed, Trade, Industry and ...

Sanral seeks go-ahead to move to ‘non-paper-based’ tender process . The South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) is awaiting permission to move to an online tender system, says Sanral Eastern Region regional manager Dumi Nkabinde.

Seventy tenders are curr...

Health and safety burden shifts onto firms as Level 3 opens way for big resumption of economic activity . The nationwide transition from lockdown Level 4 to Level 3 on June 1 would facilitate the return to work of almost eight-million more South Africans than had hitherto been allowed, Trade, Industry and ...

Pandemic-induced slump in global energy investment risks locking in obsolete technologies . The Covid-19 pandemic has set in motion the largest drop in global energy investment in history, with spending expected to plunge by $400-billion in 2020, a new International Energy Agency (IEA) report...