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Mining added 2 000 jobs quarter-on-quarter.
Mining creates 2 000 more second-quarter jobs, Minerals Council South Africa reports
17th October 2025 By: Martin Creamer

South Africa’s mining industry defied the national trend in the second quarter of this year when it created more quarter-on-quarter jobs at a time when overall South African employment fell,... 


Sibanye-Stillwater CEO Richard Stewart.
Sibanye-Stillwater CEO transition complete, ex-PIC head leading business development
17th October 2025 By: Martin Creamer

The position of CEO of Sibanye-Stillwater is now officially taken up by Dr Richard Stewart, effective from Wednesday October 1, when former Public Investment Corporation (PIC) head of listed... 


Barrick President and CEO Mark Bristow.
Bristow stepping down after elevating Barrick to great heights in fewer than seven years
17th October 2025 By: Martin Creamer

The president and CEO of Barrick, Dr Mark Bristow, is stepping down after elevating the New York and Toronto-listed gold and copper mining company to great heights in fewer than seven years. After... 


platinum jewellery
Global platinum jewellery market grows as surging gold price shifts consumer demand
17th October 2025 By: Darren Parker

The global platinum jewellery market saw growth across key regions in the second quarter of 2025, according to the latest Platinum Jewellery Business Review published by Platinum Guild... 


DMPR Minister Gwede Mantashe
New window for Junior Mining Exploration Fund opens
17th October 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

Following the success of the first window for the Junior Mining Exploration Fund (JMEF), the Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources (DMPR), the Council for Geoscience (CGS) and the... 


A mine in Nigeria
Africa should prioritise value creation over resource export
17th October 2025 By: Rebecca Campbell

The most urgent priority facing Africa today is to move from being a supplier of raw materials to becoming a value creator. Hitherto, the continent has exported its resources, to be processed... 


Public hearings are scheduled for November 17
Nersa launches market inquiry into impact of fixed charges on electricity customers
17th October 2025 By: Terence Creamer

The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has launched a market inquiry into the impact of fixed charges being levied by Eskom and municipal electricity distributors, which it claims... 


Eskom announce the completion of its multidecade coal build programme on September 29, when Kusile Unit 6 entered into commercial operation
Eskom outlines R320bn capex plan, eyes 2028 market return
17th October 2025 By: Terence Creamer

Having finally announced the completion at the end of September of its generation build programme, which included two mega coal projects that ran years behind schedule and tens of billions over... 


Connecting 300m people in Africa to electricity could boost GDP by $500bn by 2040 – BCG
17th October 2025 By: Schalk Burger

In Africa, 600-million people lack access to electricity, despite global energy poverty having decreased by about 80% since 2010. By providing electricity access to 300-million of those Africans... 


Port of Gauteng flag with logo on
White Paper on inland port to ease strain on Durban-Gauteng freight corridor unveiled
17th October 2025 By: Darren Parker

Private sector initiative the Port of Gauteng has released a White Paper to mark the start of Transport Month, setting out a plan aimed at addressing the inefficiencies in South Africa’s freight... 


AfriSam construction site
Construction sentiment ticks up despite less activity
17th October 2025 By: Marleny Arnoldi

The Civil Confidence Index compiled by FNB and the Bureau for Economic Research has increased to a level of 43 in the third quarter of the year from 41 in the second quarter and 45 in the first... 


An image showing a Red Rocket project
Discovery Green signs PPA with Red Rocket for Mpumalanga solar farm
17th October 2025 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

Discovery’s renewable-energy business Discovery Green has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with independent power producer Red Rocket for the Tournee solar park, a 300 MW solar farm... 


SANPC CEO Godfrey Moagi
South Africa can sustainably tap its hydrocarbon reserves
17th October 2025 By: Rebecca Campbell

The South African National Petroleum Company (SANPC) believes that the country has to develop its hydrocarbon resources, while not destroying the environment. So averred SANPC CEO Godfrey Moagi,... 


Seacom launches new subsea cable system
17th October 2025 By: Natasha Odendaal

Digital infrastructure group Seacom has launched Seacom 2.0, a subsea cable system across the Indian Ocean Basin, the Middle East, the Mediterranean and southern Europe. The company, in 2009,... 


BBI, Huawei launch intelligent transmission backbone to boost connectivity
17th October 2025 By: Natasha Odendaal

State-owned Broadband Infraco (BBI), in collaboration with global information and communication technology infrastructure and smart devices provider Huawei, has launched an upgraded intelligent... 


Cape Town’s Potsdam wastewater plant upgrade reaches 60% completion mark
17th October 2025 By: Irma Venter

Construction of the Potsdam Wastewater Treatment Works (WWTW) in Cape Town, currently one of the Western Cape’s largest infrastructure projects at a cost of R5.2-billion, has reached 60%... 


Funky Ouma, Ina Paarman travel to India in new made-in-the-Western-Cape retail deal
17th October 2025 By: Irma Venter

India’s largest retailer, Reliance Retail, has added a number of ‘Made in the Cape’ products to its shelves. Wesgro says it is the first time South African goods have been placed in select Reliance... 


First solar wheeling project under Namibia’s MSB programme comes on stream
17th October 2025 By: Irma Venter

Sustainable Power Solutions (SPS), in partnership with B2Gold Namibia, the Oelofse family and Fortitude, has commissioned Namibia’s first solar wheeling project under State-owned utility NamPower’s... 


September new-vehicle sales at ten-year high, exports up 32.9%
17th October 2025 By: Irma Venter

New-vehicle sales last month reached their highest level since September 2015, says naamsa | The Automotive Business Council. Sales were up 24.3%, to 54 700 units, compared with September last year. 


Seacom, Sentech partner to boost tech SMME growth
17th October 2025 By: Natasha Odendaal

Digital infrastructure and services provider Seacom and broadcast and digital services company Sentech have teamed up to provide targeted support for small, medium-sized and microenterprises... 


Copperbelt’s initial 1 000 ha cassava project expected to show how the lot of Zambia’s farmers can be uplifted.
Copperbelt primed for Zambia’s cassava food and fuel push
10th October 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Another big C may soon begin to emerge along Zambia’s copper-renowned Copperbelt, this time having nothing to do with the yellow metal but instead highlighting the first letter of a staple food... 


Rainbow Rare Earths CEO George Bennett.
Yet another global rare earths advance amid more smart testwork in Joburg lab
10th October 2025 By: Martin Creamer

More smart testwork in the Johannesburg laboratory of Rainbow Rare Earths has enabled yet another forward leap for rare earth elements (REEs), at a time when REEs are in growing demand for use in... 


Platinum needed in pacemakers.
Medical demand for platinum forecast to reach new high this year
10th October 2025 By: Martin Creamer

The demand for platinum in medical technology is on its way to reaching a 320 000 oz high point this year amid growth being at a consistent 3% compound annual growth rate since 2013 and 4% more... 


Mogale tailings retreatment facility marks one year
10th October 2025 By: Natasha Odendaal

Nearly a year after commissioning, Pan African’s Mogale tailings retreatment (MTR) operation, in Mogale City, looks back on the success of the project, which has been critical to local community... 


Containers
Tariff investigations now taking 27 months on average to complete, report shows
10th October 2025 By: Terence Creamer

Import duty investigations in South Africa are currently taking an average of 27 months to complete – more than four times the official target of six months, and with the oldest open tariff probe... 


Maxion Wheels in Johannesburg
Terra Firma activates 2.9 MW solar project at Maxion facility
10th October 2025 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Wheels producer Maxion Wheels and solar solutions company Terra Firma have commissioned a 2.9 MW solar project that is powering Maxion’s manufacturing plant in Johannesburg. The installation... 


Seifsa CEO Lucio Trentini
Seifsa joins Busa in opposing new Employment Equity Sector Targets
10th October 2025 By: Schalk Burger

Industry employer organisation the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (Seifsa), which is a member of industry organisation Business Unity South Africa (Busa), has... 


transmission
Sanedi says govt may use Expropriation Act to secure land for transmission line rollout
10th October 2025 By: Darren Parker

South African National Energy Development Institute (Sanedi) energy secretariat head Professor Sampson Mamphweli says the government intends to leverage the Expropriation Act to acquire land for... 


Wits launches research centre to tackle South Africa’s water challenges
10th October 2025 By: Natasha Odendaal

The University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) has launched its flagship water research centre, Wits:H₂O, in response to South Africa’s deepening water woes. The working research group brings together... 


Trade with US critical for Western Cape, says Winde after trip
10th October 2025 By: Irma Venter

Western Cape Premier Alan Winde has returned from a visit to the US, where he held talks with government and private sector stakeholders in Washington DC, Atlanta and New York City. The US has been... 


New household survey shows Capetonians travel largely by car
10th October 2025 By: Irma Venter

Cape Town’s new Household Survey shows that private vehicles remain the dominant form of transport in the city, with 48% of households making use of this mode, followed by minibus taxi at 29.8%,... 


Technology can turn South Africa’s water leaks into revenue streams
10th October 2025 By: Natasha Odendaal

Technology and collaboration is key to solving one of South Africa’s most pressing water challenges: the loss of nearly half the country’s clean treated water. South Africa’s national nonrevenue... 


Anthem's Castle Wind Farm
Newly consolidated renewables major, Anthem, sets 6 GW goal for 2030
10th October 2025 By: Terence Creamer

Two well-established South African renewables companies – African Clean Energy Developments and EIMS Africa – have officially combined to form a new large-scale independent power producer (IPP)... 


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