Jobs spin-offs in focus as South Africa's rooftop solar installed base grows beyond 400 MW. An analysis conducted by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Energy Centre outlines significant potential to create thousands of fulltime jobs and to nurture hundreds of small ent...

Omnia to restructure as it seeks to reduce overextended balance sheet. Diversified chemicals group Omnia will, over the next two years, focus on improving the profit margins of its companies' services and products, ensuring that its assets and investments deliver value, a...

Astral Foods secures emergency water arrangement for Mpumalanga facility. Poultry producer Astral Foods has recently, with the assistance of a number of national government departments, secured an emergency arrangement with the Lekwa municipality as an interim measure to sta...

Eskom's gain South Africa's pain as investors balk at debt. President Cyril Ramaphosa's latest pledge to support Eskom Holdings is good news for the cash-strapped electricity company -- but some investors are balking at the prospect of increased sovereign-bond ...

More African capitals realise need for resilient, sustainable infrastructure. City of Tshwane executive mayor Stevens Mokgalapa says 71% of South Africa's population will live in urban areas by 2030. This will increase further to 80% by 2050. Africa as a continent, meanwhile, i...

As South African demand stagnates, auto exports set new records. Automotive exports from South Africa had a positive 2018, setting a number of new records on the way up. In doing so, the industry managed to compensate for some of the losses seen in the South Africa...

We need detail, and we need it soon, business says in SoNA response. Business Unity South Africa (Busa) has lamented the absence of “real implementation plans” from President Cyril Ramaphosa's June State of the Nation Address (SoNA) and has urged him to work with busine...

Theft, vandalism slow new train rollout at Metrorail. While the Gibela factory in Gauteng has started to steadily produce new, made-in-South Africa trains for the Metrorail system in South Africa, it appears it may take some time before these trains all s...

Group Five shareholders unlikely to receive any value from business rescue process. Dave Lake and Peter van den Steen, the business rescue practitioners (BRPs) for Group Five on Thursday informed shareholders that it was “very unlikely” that they would receive any value back on their ...

Tambo Springs project an 'exciting experience', says Italian Railways. Italian Railways senior VP Nino Cingolani expects the consortium appointed as the preferred bidder in the Tambo Springs Intermodal Terminal project to sign the 20-year concession agreement with Transne...