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 2993 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 57055 Article rating: 4.0 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 54363 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
South Africa economy estimated to be 4.9% bigger after rebasing SuperUser Account / Thursday, October 29, 2026 0 16 Article rating: No rating South Africa's economy was estimated to be 4.9% larger than previously reported after a benchmarking and rebasing exercise, the statistics agency said on Thursday. Statistics South Africa said the exercise raised the size of the economy in 2022 to R6.99-trillion from a previously published estimate of R6.67-trillion. The agency said it changed the base year for its gross domestic product estimates to 2022 from 2015. It also took into account changes in the composition of formal and informal parts of the economy. All 10 sectors that it tracks were shown to have higher output, with mining, finance and trade registering the largest increases, partly due to factoring in illicit or illegal activity in those industries. Read more
Draft strategy seeks to embed energy efficiency as supply-side resource in IRP and IEP SuperUser Account / Thursday, October 29, 2026 0 13 Article rating: No rating A revised draft National Energy Efficiency Strategy (NEES), which is currently out for public comment, outlines a vision for incorporating energy efficiency as a supply-side resource into any updated Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) and future Integrated Energy Plan (IEP), while setting a target of avoiding 132 PJ of demand by 2035. The revised document also seeks to close a prevailing policy gap that has arisen because Cabinet last adopted a formal energy-efficiency strategy in 2005, which has led to its role being deprioritised against other supply-side options. Read more
Household financial resilience continues to rise, but fuel prices and rate hikes slow recovery SuperUser Account / Thursday, October 29, 2026 0 12 Article rating: No rating South African households improved their financial resilience for the ninth consecutive quarter in the three months to June 2026, however, rising fuel prices and interest rates are slowing recovery. The Altron FinTech Household Resilience Index (AFHRI) for the second quarter of 2026 shows the seasonally adjusted index rising to 116.1 in the second quarter. Read more
South Africa says no blanket ban on Brazil poultry after Newcastle outbreak SuperUser Account / Thursday, October 29, 2026 0 11 Article rating: No rating South Africa will not impose a blanket import ban on poultry from Brazil, only restricting shipments from premises where Newcastle disease outbreaks have been reported, the Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday. Newcastle is a highly contagious and viral disease affecting birds, like avian flu. Read more
Years of delay in trade investigations deepening South Africa’s industrial malaise – study SuperUser Account / Thursday, October 29, 2026 0 10 Article rating: No rating The duration of tariff investigations undertaken by the International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (Itac) has increased since 2019 to an average of 40 months, and with some taking up to 76 months to complete, a study by trade consulting firm XA Global Trade Advisors shows. This is a significant increase from an average of six months in 2019 and is beyond Itac’s own publicly stated objective of completing investigations within six months, XA Global Trade Advisors CEO Donald MacKay noted during an October 21 webinar to present the findings of the study. Read more