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 5789 Article rating: 4.3 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 60161 Article rating: 3.5 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 56946 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
Nissan South Africa’s Rosslyn plant to be sold to Chery SuperUser Account / Friday, January 23, 2026 0 0 Article rating: No rating After nearly a year of rumours about its possible closure, the axe has finally fallen on Nissan’s assembly operations in Rosslyn, Pretoria. The Japanese group announced last year that it would close seven plants out of a global network of 17 manufacturing sites as the struggling carmaker reported a net loss of $4.5-billion for the year that ended in March, amid surging restructuring costs and the fallout of President Donald Trump’s trade war. Read more
South Africa’s SALT telescope plays key role in solving a cosmic mystery SuperUser Account / Friday, January 23, 2026 0 0 Article rating: No rating The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) has been used, by international astronomers, to solve a “cosmic mystery”. Located in the South African Astronomical Observatory complex at Sutherland in the Karoo, in the Northern Cape province, SALT was used to observe one of the most extreme stars ever found, designated WOH G64, which lies in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC – a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way). WOH G64 is one of the coolest but also most luminous, as well as dustiest, red supergiant stars in the LMC. This kind of star ends its days in a core-collapse supernova explosion. And, over the past ten years WOH G64 has faded to a significant degree, while its pulsations have been suppressed, and the spectrum of the light that it emits has become dominated by emission lines from ionised gas, rather than those typical of red supergiants. Moreover, in 2024, it was discovered that the star was being veiled by a fresh dust cloud. Read more
The SKA is coming to life as it passes early science tests SuperUser Account / Friday, January 23, 2026 0 8 Article rating: No rating This month saw the achievement of another milestone for the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope programme, which is being developed by the UK-based SKA Observatory (SKAO) and is composed of two instruments, based in South Africa and Australia. The milestone was reached by the SKA-Mid instrument, being developed in the Karoo region of South Africa’s Northern Cape province, and involved two of the SKA-Mid’s dishes working together as an interferometer for the first time. Read more
Presidency official says unbundling of Eskom should not be pursued ‘half-heartedly’ SuperUser Account / Thursday, January 22, 2026 0 8 Article rating: No rating The Presidency’s Rudi Dicks, who is overseeing the economic reforms being implemented under Operation Vulindlela, says the unbundling of Eskom’s transmission business cannot be done “half-heartedly” if South Africa is to introduce the competition needed to help improve electricity affordability. Speaking during a panel discussion hosted by Bowmans on the financing of South Africa’s just energy transition, Dicks expressed his support for the full unbundling of the transmission business and assets from Eskom Holdings. Read more
Fund established to rebuild Kruger National Park – Aucamp SuperUser Account / Thursday, January 22, 2026 0 8 Article rating: No rating The Kruger National Park cannot rebuild without help and a well-coordinated, rapid response is needed, with national parks agency South African National Parks (SANParks) estimating the damage to infrastructure could run into hundreds of millions of rands, said Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Minister Willie Aucamp. The combined scale of infrastructure damage and operational disruption in the recent flooding has exceeded the park’s existing contingency and maintenance budgets. Substantial finances are required for recovery and restoration efforts, the Minister pointed out in a January 22 media briefing. Read more