Denel announces latest phase of its offset programme to Malaysia. South Africa’s State-owned defence industrial group Denel announced on Friday that its tenth and last offset project for Malaysia, being provided in return for the Asian country’s order for armoured gu...

Eskom task team mulling new debt-relief options as it comes to terms with depth of crisis. The Eskom Sustainability Task Team – which has already had its proposal for the unbundling of the utility into three separate units accepted by government – is now finalising an updated report for Pres...

March manufacturing output better than expected. South Africa’s manufacturing output is continuing on a positive trend, with March output increasing by 1.2% year-on-year, beating market expectations of a contraction of 0.2%. The year-on-year gain ...

Local vehicle production expected to grow by 6.2% in 2019. South Africa’s vehicle production is expected to expand by 6.2% in 2019, to roughly 648000 units, compared with 2018, says the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa (Naamsa)...

Sappi says dissolving wood pulp prospects remain strong despite near-term pressures. Diversified forests products group Sappi is warning of lower full-year earnings, owing to ongoing market weakness for graphic paper, as well as near-term pricing and volume pressures for its expanding ...

South Africa’s energy transition won’t be ‘just’ in absence of inclusive social dialogue. South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) general-secretary Zwelinzima Vavi has called for urgent social dialogue on South Africa’s “inevitable” energy transition from coal to renewable energy, ...

Eberhard calls for renewables to play a far greater role in South Africa. Energy expert Anton Eberhard has called for renewable energy to play a far greater role in South Africa, adding that solar and wind energy had saved the country from what could have been a far darker p...

South African private sector activity grows in April as electricity crunch eases – PMI. Activity in South Africa's private sector grew in April, a survey showed on Monday, with easing electricity blackouts off-setting a slide in businesses selling prices as they continued to struggle with...

Total to buy Anadarko’s Africa assets for $8.8bn if Occidental bid succeeds. French integrated oil and gas company Total has reached a binding agreement with Occidental Petroleum to acquire Anadarko’s assets in Africa for $8.8-billion in the event of the successful completion o...

IEA says world cannot ‘press pause’ on renewables, as capacity growth stalls. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has expressed concern over the “unexpected flattening” of renewable-energy capacity additions in 2018, which, at 180 GW, remained in line with additions recorded i...