SMME Support as of July 2020 SMME Support as of July 2020 What the Renewable Energy (IPP) Projects have contributed to the Small Medium Micro Enterprises in South Africa SuperUser Account / Wednesday, October 21, 2020 0 2550 Article rating: 5.0 The purpose of this presentation is to provide the information on what the Renewable Energy (IPP) Projects have contributed to the Small Medium Micro Enterprises in South Africa. Read more
AFRICOAST ENERGY LAUNCHED AFRICOAST ENERGY LAUNCHED SuperUser Account / Monday, April 13, 2015 0 56476 Article rating: 5.0 FOLLOWING significant growth in the renewable energy business, AfriCoast Engineers SA has developed a sister company to exapnd its vision. Read more
AFRICOAST ENGINEERS SA ESTABLISHES RENEWABLE ENERGY COMPANY AFRICOAST ENGINEERS SA ESTABLISHES RENEWABLE ENERGY COMPANY SuperUser Account / Thursday, February 12, 2015 0 53496 Article rating: 4.0 Renewable energy engineering firm AfiCoast Engineers SA has announced that a new company, AfriCoast Energy, will now be responsible for all future renewable energy projects - particulary wind and solar - while it will also play a key role in guiding AfriCoast Engineers' current basket of renewable energy projects. Read more
Bulk water in balance, local deficits still weigh on water sector SuperUser Account / Friday, May 15, 2026 0 1 Article rating: No rating While South Africa’s raw water supply remains in balance with existing demand on a national scale, localised deficits remain – with municipal water services reliability declining sharply and water board debt increasing. This has resulted in continued worsening water services disruptions, sewage spills and poor water quality in many areas, as highlighted in the most recent release of the Department of Water and Sanitation’s (DWS’s) Green Drop report. Read more
Radio astronomer and engineer Justin Jonas awarded honorary doctorate by UP SuperUser Account / Friday, May 15, 2026 0 1 Article rating: No rating The University of Pretoria (UP) has awarded South African radio astronomer Professor Justin Jonas an honorary doctorate, in honour of his contributions to radio astronomy and associated engineering in the country. The degree was bestowed by UP’s Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering. Jonas is currently director of the Centre for Radio Astronomy Techniques and Technologies at Rhodes University. (He gained all his degrees at Rhodes.) He was a major force behind the development of the country’s world-leading MeerKAT radio telescope array and the South African contribution to the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope array, currently under construction. Read more
Opinion: Why tariff reform will make or break South Africa’s electricity market SuperUser Account / Friday, May 15, 2026 0 3 Article rating: No rating In this article, Apollo Africa CEO Nico de Bruyn writes that South Africa’s electricity reform debate often centres on generation, yet these reforms are entirely dependent on the underlying issue of tariffs. Read more
Denel highlights importance to it of partnerships, R&D SuperUser Account / Friday, May 15, 2026 0 3 Article rating: No rating In its presentation to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans, embattled State-owned defence industrial group Denel highlighted the importance to its future of developing strategic partnerships and collaborations (including access to funding), and of undertaking research and development (R&D). Partnerships, of various types and at different levels, would be a way of gaining access to markets, funding, innovation and technology. The different levels could be government to government, company to company, business division to business division, all the way down to the project/capability level. Strategic partnerships could take the form of joint ventures (JVs), contracting partnerships, marketing agreements, “smart partnerships” and public-private partnerships (PPPs). Denel reported that it was currently developing, with National Treasury, a PPP framework that it could use. Read more
No sweet spot found yet as govt, auto industry mull shoring up local manufacturing SuperUser Account / Friday, May 15, 2026 0 5 Article rating: No rating The South African automotive industry and government have not yet found “that sweet spot” that would shore up the local manufacturing sector as it faces declining local parts content and increasing competition from imports, says naamsa | The Automotive Business Council president and BMW Group South Africa CEO Peter van Binsbergen. Government is reviewing the second iteration of its Automotive Production Development Programme (APDP 2) this year, amid a rapidly changing global automotive industry. Read more