President Cyril Ramaphosa and Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe intend opposing a legal challenge against them over energy planning. In January, two civil society organisations – Green Connection and the Southern African Faith Communities' Environment Institute (SAFCEI) – filed an application to seek the development of the Integrated Energy Plan (IEP). They believe [...]

With the thirty-sixth Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Assembly of Heads of State being held in Ethiopia over the weekend of February 18 and 19, civil society organisations (CSOs) have called for the AU to play a more ambitious role in creating a fossil fuel-free energy future in Africa.  CSOs have begun circulating [...]

Nuclear power is part of the green taxonomy in Europe, where South Africa places most of its aluminium products and where most of the price pressures on non-green aluminium are going to come in the coming years. But, for some reason, nuclear energy is not part of the green taxonomy in South Africa.

South Africa’s national port infrastructure and marine services agency, Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA), has given the assurance that the preliminaries for the project to establish a new base for the South African Navy (SA Navy) at Richards Bay are progressing well. In return for the new base, the SA Navy will transfer its current [...]

A Mpumalanga woman has appeared in the Standerton Magistrate's Court in connection with a theft and money laundering case relating to the Tutuka Power Station. Annemarie Stander, 55, was released on R5 000 bail on Wednesday after she was arrested by the Hawks.

Nonprofit the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse is bringing an urgent application against the government aimed at overturning the National State of Disaster over the electricity crisis.  The application was lodged in the Pretoria High Court on February 16.

February may bring a large hike in the petrol price, the latest information from the Central Energy Fund shows. With two weeks to go before the prices are fixed, the fund's data shows that 95 unleaded petrol could be increased by more than R1.20 a litre in February, while diesel may be hiked by 38c. [...]

Europe-based global major aerospace and defence group Airbus released its full year results for 2022 on Thursday. It reported total revenues of €58.763-billion for the year. This was a 13% increase over the figure for 2021. Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT), adjusted, came to €5.627-billion, up 16% over 2021. Net income in 2022 was [...]

A study by the Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP) finds that an above-inflation increase in the Health Promotion Levy (HPL), or sugar tax, would put 6 000 farm-level jobs and 3 000 small-scale growers at risk in the sugarcane industry between this year and 2025. South African Sugar Association (SASA) CEO Trix Trikam says the [...]

Mining companies are developing and deploying strategies to reduce climate-related risks in the locations where mines are situated, and the ability for gold mines to self-generate power on a practical scale from solar plants is helping to create a viable source of skills and infrastructure that will benefit other sectors, says market development organisation World [...]

Recent government policies, such as the US's Inflation Reduction Act and the European Union’s proposed Green Deal Industrial Plan, demonstrate the growing need for critical raw materials through to the end of the decade and beyond, necessitating fresh investment in both primary supply and recycling, said Glencore CEO Gary Nagle on Wednesday, when the diversified mining [...]

With a week to go before Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana tables his budget in Parliament, two global credit ratings agencies have warned of SA's deteriorating risk profile due to the impact of prolonged electricity cuts on the economy.  On Wednesday, Fitch ratings said that while it had anticipated the power cuts would continue into 2023, [...]