Work won't start on next phase of Mokolo-Crocodile transfer scheme until EIA appeal finalised. The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) has confirmed that work on the 12.3-billion rand Mokolo-Crocodile Water Augmentation Project Phase 2A (MCWAP-2A) project will not commence while there is an app...

As steel consumption plumbs ten-year lows, AMSA seeks power relief. JSE-listed steel group ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) is continuing to pursue tariff relief from electricity producer Eskom as part of broader efforts to navigate an increasingly hostile domestic st...

Sappi buys Canada mill for $175m, reports third-quarter results. Diversified woodfibre company Sappi on Thursday announced that it will buy the 270000 t Matane high yield hardwood pulp mill, in Quebec, Canada, from Rayonier Advanced Materials for $175-million. The...

Sanral to issue tenders worth over 40 billion rand over next three years. Road construction tenders to the value of more than 40-billion rand will come to the market over the next two to three years, the South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) announced on Thursday....

SAREC dismisses Eskom claim that IPPs account for 25% of its primary energy costs. The South African Renewable Energy Council (SAREC) has questioned an Eskom claim that independent power producers (IPPs) accounted for 25% of its primary energy costs in 2018/19, while supplying only 5...

Denel assures that it will take action against former executives accused of wrongdoing. State-owned defence industrial group Denel gave the assurance, on Wednesday, that it would soon start legal actions to recover losses from fraud and misappropriation. These would be the result of sever...

Lack of funding, Autopax fingered in preliminary public transport inquiry findings. Autopax, the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) and insufficient funding are all potentially distorting competition in the public transport sector, according to the preliminary findings of t...

Glencore's African assets underperform. Diversified miner Glencore has warned of a $350-million noncash loss within its marketing division for the six months ended June 30, as a result of lower cobalt prices. The miner reported that cobalt ...

Digital twinning, robotic testing, hydrogen trains and the railways. There are numerous digital technologies available to help develop the railway systems of the future, says University of Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education director Professor Clive Rob...

Unemployment rate rises to record 29%. South Africa's official unemployment rate has increased by 1.4 percentage points to 29%, Statistics South Africa's latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey shows. This is the country's highest unemploymen...