I'm not dithering on more energy capacity, says Mantashe . Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe on Thursday said there was no deliberate delay on his part in bringing more renewable power to the grid to solve South Africa's energy crisis, but s...

Constitutional amendment only unlikely to deliver success, warns land panel . South Africa should put in place a 50- to 100-year food security plan, and then walk backwards to see what it can do to make that happen, says former Afgri CEO Chris Venter.

“However, this is not hap...

Inconsistencies between fiscal and other policies resulting in ‘austerity without consolidation’ . Prevailing inconsistencies between fiscal policy and the rest of government policy lay at the heart of the South African government’s current financial crisis and was resulting in “austerity without fi...

VWSA launches e-Golf project, with the aim to sell EVs from 2022 . Volkswagen Group South Africa (VWSA) has taken the first step in the roll-out of its local electric mobility programme, through the

launch of the e-Golf pilot project.

The e-Golf pilot project will...

New Concor chief sees surge in issuance of large tenders as sign of possible construction turnaround . Newly appointed Concor CEO Lucas Tseki believes the strong flow of tenders in the last quarter of 2019 could signal that the domestic construction market is finally bottoming out.

He is also cautious...

Mantashe says Ministerial Determinations needed to unlock IRP 2019 are finalised and await Nersa’s concurrence . Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe announced on Wednesday that the Section 34 Ministerial Determinations required to give effect to the Integrated Resource Plan 2019 (IRP 2019) had be...

Criticism, praise for Competition Commission’s aftermarket guidelines . The National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa (Naamsa) has slammed the Competition Commission’s draft Guidelines for Competition in the South African Automotive Aftermarket Indus...

Bushveld sees battery storage potential beyond EVs . While the energy transition is gaining a lot of traction, integrated primary vanadium producer Bushveld Minerals CEO Fortune Mojapelo laments that the battery storage narrative is “still dominated by e...

SAB, AB InBev unveil new R5.4bn empowerment scheme . South African brewery company AB InBev on Monday announced details of its new black economic empowerment (BEE) scheme, where a new BEE ownership transaction will be implemented through a company called...

BMW’s Selumane appointed as CEO of transformation fund . Jabulani Selumane has been appointed as CEO of the Automotive Industry Transformation Fund (AITF).

Selumane, a mechanical engineer by training, has more than ten years’ experience in the automotive i...