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WiFi 7 signals generational shift in wireless connectivity
30th January 2026 By: Natasha Odendaal

The seventh generation of wireless technology – WiFi 7 – offers faster speeds, lower latency and smarter multiband connectivity, with its value cemented in reliable connections for many users,... 


Port of Maputo notches up record volumes
30th January 2026 By: Irma Venter

The Port of Maputo last year moved record volumes, handling a total of 32-million tons – a 3.4% increase compared with the previous year’s 30.9-million tons. The Maputo Port Development Company... 


Global solar additions to fall for first time  in 2026, says BNEF
Global solar additions to fall for first time in 2026, says BNEF
23rd January 2026 By: Bloomberg

Solar installations are set to drop next year for the first time since the industry emerged as a global force two decades ago, as policy shifts and saturation in major markets temper demand. The... 


Flashback to CPM Group's Jeffrey Christian (right) being interviewed by Mining Weekly's Martin Creamer.
Long-run gold bull market expected by CPM Group of the US
23rd January 2026 By: Martin Creamer

Given the state of the world politically, economically, financially and socially, the gold bull market is expected to continue in the long run, says Jeffrey Christian of New York-based CPM Group.... 


Newly appointed MC Mining CEO Christine (Yi) He.
Foreign direct investment providing quantum progress, new MC Mining CEO emphasises
23rd January 2026 By: Martin Creamer

The mineral reserves of South Africa hold enormous potential for the country’s future economic growth, newly appointed MC Mining MD and CEO Christine (Yi) He emphasises in an Op-Ed released on... 


Aluminium smelting is electricity intensive.
South32, Eskom jointly exploring post-2031 power options for Hillside Aluminium
23rd January 2026 By: Martin Creamer

Studies being undertaken on the future power source for South32’s Hillside Aluminium beyond 2031 are taking place amid awareness of the different energy levers that can potentially be pulled. The... 


Kamoa-Kakula complex
Ivanhoe announces first anode production from Kamoa-Kakula copper smelter
23rd January 2026 By: Sabrina Jardim

TSX-listed Ivanhoe Mines has announced that the first copper anodes were produced by Kamoa-Kakula’s on-site, state-of-the-art 500 000 t/y direct-to-blister copper smelter, in the Democratic... 


New analysis points to dramatic reshaping of trade lanes amid tariffs and geopolitical tensions
New analysis points to dramatic reshaping of trade lanes amid tariffs and geopolitical tensions
23rd January 2026 By: Terence Creamer

A new scenario analysis of global trade points to ongoing trade growth over the coming decade despite the imposition of tariffs and rising geopolitical fragmentation. However, it also suggests that... 


Major water infrastructure commissioned in North West, Limpopo municipalities
23rd January 2026 By: Natasha Odendaal

Upgraded critical water infrastructure has been commissioned to significantly improve water security for residents of the Rustenburg local municipality, in the North West, and the Thabazimbi local... 


European competition commission hands Metair subsidiary Rombat steep fine
23rd January 2026 By: Irma Venter

Battery producer Rombat, a subsidiary of JSE-listed auto parts group Metair, has been handed a €20.2-million fine by the European competition authority. Metair’s Romanian subsidiary is one of... 


New-vehicle sales recover to above pre-pandemic levels, exports also in the green
23rd January 2026 By: Irma Venter

The new-vehicle market finally recovered to above 2019, pre-pandemic levels in 2025, says naamsa | The Automotive Business Council. South Africa’s new-vehicle market reached 536 612 units in 2019. 


Chinese onslaught pushes ‘Big Six’ market share below 50%
23rd January 2026 By: Irma Venter

The top six-selling light-vehicle brands in South Africa in the year 2000 were Toyota, Volkswagen, Nissan, Opel, Mazda and Ford. From the turn of the century to 2010, these six brands held 60% to... 


AGSA report lays bare a water sector in systemic collapse
23rd January 2026 By: Natasha Odendaal

The Auditor-General South Africa’s (AGSA’s) first consolidated water-sector audit report reveals systemic breakdowns across the water value chain, which poses significant risks to public health,... 


Valterra Platinum CEO Craig Miller and Valterra Executive Head Corporate Affairs and Sustainability Yvonne Mfolo.
Valterra Platinum’s market capitalisation soars to R300bn-plus in inaugural year
16th January 2026 By: Martin Creamer

Valterra Platinum, South Africa’s impressive 2025 platinum group metals (PGM) creation, is bringing its inaugural 2025 year to a massively fruitful close with a market capitalisation that has... 


Platinum mesh added to lithium-sulphur batteries.
Platinum metals could end up in both electric car technologies – BEV and FCEV
16th January 2026 By: Martin Creamer

Platinum is already very well embedded as an indispensable catalyst in the hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) technology that very impressively powered the Toyotas that chauffeured... 


Minerals Council South Africa CEO Mzila Mthenjane.
New gold mine a milestone for industry, economy, communities – Minerals Council
16th January 2026 By: Martin Creamer

The new Qala Shallows gold mine is not only a milestone for West Wits Mining but also for South Africa's mining industry, the South African economy, and the communities that will share in the... 


WBHO clinches deal to build R8bn Cape Winelands Airport
16th January 2026 By: Irma Venter

The Cape Winelands Airport has appointed Wilson Bayly Holmes-Ovcon (WBHO) to take responsibility for the technical development and construction of its new R8-billion airport, set to be built in... 


Hydrogen set to keep on growing as fundamentals strengthen, China rapidly drives costs down
16th January 2026 By: Irma Venter

The hydrogen sector may have been in a hype cycle for the last few years, but the fundamentals around the global energy market have not changed – the need for clean and localised energy and a just... 


Unilever South Africa MD Justin Apsey
Unilever South Africa lifts local content to 80% as it moves to embed supply-chain resilience
16th January 2026 By: Terence Creamer

The producer of a diverse range of well-known household brands – from Sunlight soap and OMO washing powder, to Vaseline and Robertsons Spices – reports that it has increased the local content in... 


At the formation of SABMA (from left to right): Antony English, founder and CTO of Freedom Won,
Kribang Govender, Creslow Energy Solutions MD,
James Verster, Blue Nova CEO, 
Louis Serfontein, head of business development at Freedom Won, Koloyan Dimov, founder and MD of SolarMD,
Rizqah MacGirlley, product and project manager of SolarMD, and Paul Osborne, BalanCell CFO
New battery manufacturing body wants local content designated in large industrial and utility-scale projects
16th January 2026 By: Terence Creamer

Six local lithium battery and inverter manufacturers have joined forces to form the South African Battery Manufacturers Association (SABMA) in an effort to raise awareness of the country’s energy... 


SAPVIA sees ongoing solar market recovery laying basis for industrialisation, but warns against narrow focus on modules
SAPVIA sees ongoing solar market recovery laying basis for industrialisation, but warns against narrow focus on modules
16th January 2026 By: Terence Creamer

The South African Photovoltaic Industry Association (SAPVIA) says demand for solar PV in 2025 continued to recover from the 2024 slowdown, which followed on from the loadshedding-induced surge of... 


The intermodal village in KwaZulu-Natal
Expansion of Estcourt intermodal village seen encouraging more rail transport, reducing costs
16th January 2026 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Logistics company EIT Group is set to expand its intermodal village in Estcourt, KwaZulu-Natal, into a multibillion-rand operation. South Africa’s first fully operational intermodal freight village... 


Process safety is a cornerstone of industrial resilience, sustainability
16th January 2026

Companies that treat process safety as a compliance exercise are missing the point entirely. It is not about meeting standards, but whether an operation can survive the next decade.   Chemical and... 


New skills hub opens to equip young people for AI-driven economy
16th January 2026 By: Natasha Odendaal

A new Digital Skills Hub, developed by Afrika Tikkun with support from the MTN South Africa Foundation, has been launched in Diepsloot, Gauteng, to prepare young people for a fast-changing,... 


VSL Manufacturing opens R750m facility to supply Isuzu assembly plant
16th January 2026 By: Irma Venter

VSL Manufacturing (VSL) has started operations at its new, R750-million manufacturing facility adjacent to the Isuzu Motors South Africa (IMSAf) assembly plant in Struandale, Gqeberha. VSL is a... 


Isabel Fick
Africa GreenCo appoints Isabel Fick as trading, operations group head
16th January 2026 By: Sabrina Jardim

National Energy Regulator of South Africa- (Nersa-) licensed renewable-energy buyer and trader Africa GreenCo has announced that Isabel Fick will be joining the company as group head of trading and... 


Africa’s first air rescue simulator, with crane and suspended helicopter, opens in Joburg
16th January 2026 By: Natasha Odendaal

Crane manufacturer Condra Cranes has unveiled a 4 t overhead crane with suspended helicopter fuselage which has accurately replicated helicopter motion in the hover, enabling simulated, realistic... 


Improving asset performance for more resilient mining operations
12th December 2025

In today’s African mining sector, reliability has become a daily challenge rather than a maintenance metric. Teams work in environments where equipment rarely gets a break, conditions shift without... 


South Africa's Phalaborwa rare earths project.
Rare earth yttrium’s price surge uplifts South Africa’s Phalaborwa economics
12th December 2025 By: Martin Creamer

The economics of South Africa’s Phalaborwa rare earths project in Limpopo province have been uplifted very materially by the 3 000%-plus surge in the European prices of yttrium, a silvery white,... 


soweto mine dump
Pan African advances Soweto tailings retreatment project
12th December 2025 By: Darren Parker

JSE-listed Pan African Resources has identified a preferred option to expand gold production by processing its Soweto tailings storage facilities (TSFs) through a 600 000-t-a-month integrated... 


Mine-to-market outline of platinum-catalysed electric car progression.
Engineering News & Mining Weekly driven around Joburg in platinum-based hydrogen fuel cell electric car
12th December 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Mining Weekly as well several B20 and G20 visitors were this week chauffeured around Johannesburg in a platinum-catalysed hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) that journalists attending South... 


World Platinum Research Director Edward Sterck.
China’s platinum futures exchange debut seen as major boost for South Africa’s PGMs
12th December 2025 By: Martin Creamer

Physically settled platinum and palladium futures contracts and futures options will commence trading on November 27 on China’s Guangzhou Futures Exchange, which is cracking a world first by taking... 


Nersa reinforces shift to competitive electricity market as it approves market operator licence and new grid rules
Nersa reinforces shift to competitive electricity market as it approves market operator licence and new grid rules
12th December 2025 By: Terence Creamer

The Energy Regulator, which is the National Energy Regulator of South Africa’s (Nersa’s) highest decision-making body, has made three landmark decisions in support of the country’s legislated... 


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