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 2891 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 56962 Article rating: 3.7 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 54175 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
Draft electricity pricing policy published, SAWEM start needs to be set – BLSA SuperUser Account / Monday, September 28, 2026 0 12 Article rating: No rating While the recently published draft Electricity Pricing Policy, which is due to be finalised by March 2027, will support a competitive electricity market, the launch of the South African Wholesale Electricity Market (SAWEM) has been repeatedly delayed, says business organisation Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) CEO Busisiwe Mavuso. In the most recent update provided, the market was set to begin trading with external participants in September, but no update has been provided on when full operation can be expected. Read more
DWS to roll out new water tariff, institutional performance assessment frameworks SuperUser Account / Monday, September 28, 2026 0 12 Article rating: No rating The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) is embarking on a structured roll-out of a series of frameworks to strengthen the capacity of water service authorities (WSAs) to comply with regulatory requirements, improve the quality of retail water tariff proposals and enhance institutional performance monitoring across the water services sector. These include the Retail Water Tariff Proposal Framework, the Draft Implementation Guidelines for Section 10: Norms and Standards for Water Services Tariffs and the revised Institutional Performance Assessment Programme (IPAP) to WSAs and relevant stakeholders. Read more
South Africa, Zimbabwe in talks over $500m dam project SuperUser Account / Monday, September 28, 2026 0 12 Article rating: No rating South Africa and Zimbabwe are discussing a $500-million dam project to supply water to an industrial hub near their border, according to documents seen by Bloomberg. The proposed Thuli Moswa dam, to be built in Thuli in Zimbabwe, would have storage capacity of about 430-million cubic meters and could supply as much as 90-million cubic meters of water to the Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in South Africa’s Limpopo province, according to the documents. Read more
UIF, NEF launch R1bn enterprise fund SuperUser Account / Friday, September 25, 2026 0 20 Article rating: No rating The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) and the National Empowerment Fund (NEF) on September 25 launched a R1-billion partnership, which aims to stimulate enterprise growth and create upwards of 30 000 jobs. With R500-million committed from each entity, this combined considerable capital finance endeavours to advance employment, drive transformation and empower small, medium-sized and microenterprises. Read more
South Africa's Transnet begins process to expand manganese export capacity SuperUser Account / Friday, September 25, 2026 0 32 Article rating: No rating South Africa's State-owned logistics operator Transnet said on Friday it has started the process of picking a private sector partner to develop and operate a new manganese export terminal for 25 years, as it seeks to expand the mineral's export capacity by 20%. South Africa is the world's top manganese exporter, having shipped about 26-million metric tons in 2025, according to the Minerals Council. Manganese is mostly used in steel manufacturing, but increasingly in battery technologies, which are vital for renewable energy. Transnet, which currently handles about 16-million tons of South Africa's manganese exports annually through its freight rail system, is seeking a private sector partner to fund, develop, operate and maintain a new export corridor from mines in the Northern Cape to a new terminal at Ngqura, in the Eastern Cape. Read more