International nuclear organisation the World Nuclear Association (WNA) and the African Energy Chamber have signed a memorandum of understanding to drive nuclear energy adoption in Africa. This partnership includes collaborating for African Energy Week.

The Road Traffic Infringement Agency (RTIA) is finally ready to roll out the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (Aarto) Act of 1998, as well as the Aarto Amendment Act 4 of 2019, after various delays and a litigation process. A ruling by the Constitutional Court delivered on July 12 ultimately confirmed the legality and [...]

The initiation of Scatec’s three Kenhardt projects, in the Northern Cape, exemplifies the renewable power producer’s strides and innovation in integrating storage technologies into renewable energy projects, sub-Saharan Africa executive VP Jan Fourie extolls. These projects, built under the Risk Mitigation Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme, involve a total capital expenditure approaching $1-billion, representing one [...]

The Western Cape agriculture sector suffered more than R1-billion in infrastructure damage during recent flooding, and now the provincial agriculture department wants to have the area declared a disaster to free up funding for repairs. According to the department, an updated assessment puts the cost of the damage at R1.053-billion, with the West Coast, Cape [...]

Some of the world’s biggest mining companies are working with South Africa’s government on a R27-billion water project to supply major platinum and chrome operations and several hundred thousand people with drinking water. Glencore and Anglo American Platinum are among the companies attempting to secure half of that amount in financing by the end of the [...]

While the government has welcomed the judgment of the Constitutional Court on Wednesday which declared the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences Amendment Act (Aarto) constitutional and valid, the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) says it will be impossible for the government to implement it. The Constitutional Court overturned an order of the Gauteng High [...]

South African diplomat and ambassador of South Africa to Madagascar Gert Grobler has emphasised the importance of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in advancing Africa’s integrated cooperation and development, as well as the vital role that China can play in advancing the AfCFTA and the resultant cooperation and development. “Despite headwinds, trade between [...]

US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) CEO Scott Nathan has reiterated the American government’s interest in helping to finance the Lobito rail corridor, linking the copper and cobalt mining regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Zambia to Angola’s Lobito port. Nathan, who is heading the US Delegation to the US-Africa Business Summit [...]

A new report published by the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena) on the geopolitics of critical minerals points to a significant concentration in supply chains and calls for collaborative strategies to sustain the energy transition.  The ‘Geopolitics of the Energy Transition: Critical Materials’ report states that the energy transition requires a dramatic increase in the [...]

Northern Cape copper mining and marketing company Copper 360 is launching a mining school in the Northern Cape, with its eye on how the highly successful Camborne School of Mines in the UK does things. The mining school idea arose during a discussion at a conference set up by the Department of Minerals Resources and [...]

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the Aviation Impact Accelerator (AIA) are to collaborate to evaluate the financial aspects of achieving aviation’s and global governments’ joint objective, of net-zero carbon emissions from commercial air travel, by 2050. IATA is the representative body of the global airline industry, with some 300 member carriers, jointly responsible [...]

South Africa revamped the board of the state-owned ports and rail operator, appointing a former mining executive as its new chairman as it seeks to improve inefficient infrastructure that major exporters say constrains business. The government appointed Andile Sangqu, a former vice president of the Minerals Council South Africa and ex-executive head for Anglo American [...]