Almost two-thirds of ITS community severely impacted by Covid-19 . The Covid-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the local intelligent transport system (ITS) community, says Intelligent Transport Society South Africa (ITSSA) CEO Dr Paul Vorster.

ITTSA conduc...

Afrimat seeks growth opportunities as it posts record results . Openpit miner Afrimat is “well-positioned to grow” its business in the current environment, and should “things go south”, the company would be able to “survive for a long time”, says CEO Andries van He...

Controversial plan to renegotiate IPP tariffs is proceeding, De Ruyter confirms . Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter has confirmed that the State-owned electricity utility is pushing ahead with a controversial move to renegotiate power purchase agreements (PPAs) with renewable independent po...

Eskom committed to ‘aggressive’ end-2021 unbundling timeline . Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter describes as “aggressive” the end-of-2021 deadline for completing the unbundling of the vertically integrated power utility but insisted on Thursday that he was fully committe...

WRC kicks off wastewater surveillance programme for Covid-19 spread . The Water Research Commission (WRC) has launched a National Programme on Monitoring Covid-19 Spread in Communities to track the prevalence of the virus in communities through wastewater surveillance an...

Place clean energy at the centre of post-Covid-19 recovery efforts – IEA . A new International Energy Agency (IEA) report forecasts that the world will add 167 GW of new renewables capacity in 2020, a 13% decline when compared with record 2019 renewable-power connections of 1...

Economists propose R100bn social bond to fund South Africa’s Covid fight . A group of economists is proposing that the South African government consider the issuance of an innovative ‘social bond’ to raise up to R100-billion for the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic and to ...

Manufacturing output declines 2.1% in February . Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reports that manufacturing production decreased by 2.1% in February.

The largest negative contributors were basic iron and steel, nonferrous metal products, metal p...

Wind body calls for privately funded renewables to be key component of recovery plan . The South African Wind Energy Association (SAWEA) is urging government to include renewable-energy as one of the main components of any post-Covid-19 economic stimulus package, arguing that such infras...

Construction industry operating at 10%, 15% of capacity, says Metelerkamp . Despite certain sections of the construction industry returning to work under Alert Level 4 of the national lockdown, the industry is currently only working at between 10% and 15% of its capacity, says...