Mazda celebrates five years as a standalone brand with 60% growth . It has been a prosperous five years for Mazda as a standalone company in South Africa, following the split from Ford in the local market in 2014.

Starting out with 9 067 vehicles sold in 2015, sales ...

Top-50 aspiration far off as South Africa slips to 84 in Doing Business ranking . South Africa’s position in the World Bank’s latest ‘Ease of Doing Business Ranking’ has deteriorated, dropping to 84 out of the 190 countries surveyed, from 82 in the previous report.

New Zealand onc...

SOE bailouts will increase budget deficit, lead to downgrades, warns Auditor General . State-owned enterprises (SOEs) are increasingly relying on government guarantees to secure loans, but this reflects badly on government's debt and could result in credit downgrades, the Auditor-General...

Cartrack to offer ‘Airbnb for your car’, other mobility solutions . Cartrack is looking at introducing a host of new mobility-linked services to its vehicle tracking and telematics platforms, says CEO Zak Calisto.

Cartrack customers would, for example, soon be able t...

New trading platform to introduce transparent domestic coal indices from 2020 . A new online commodities trading platform will be launched during the first quarter of 2020, potentially heralding a new era of transparency in the pricing and procurement of domestic coal, the rising ...

Municipal debt threatening water security, DG warns . The accumulation of municipal debt for water was threatening the sustainability of water boards and beyond that the country's water security, the director-general for human settlements, Mbulelo Tshanga...

South Africa could have its own satellite constellation – if it has the will . South Africa has the technological capability to create its own constellation of nano- or micro-satellites to supply the country, the Southern African region, or even the whole African continent, to en...

South Africa to get fourth EV model next year . Mercedes-Benz’s first battery electric vehicle (EV) will go on sale in South Africa in 2020, says Mercedes-Benz Cars South Africa marketing director Selvin Govender.

This means South Africa will have...

Rise in distributed-power allocation comes amid surging global rooftop solar growth . The decision of government to increase the allocation for distributed generation in the Cabinet-approved Integrated Resource Plan (IRP2019) comes as the International Energy Agency (IEA) is forecasting...

Renergen completes commissioning of second CNG filling station . Emerging natural gas and helium producer Renergen has completed the commissioning of its second compressed natural gas (CNG) filling station, in Johannesburg.

The filling station will begin supplying ...