Tag: Energy

US official announces business partnership with Kenya (Voice of America) About 1,300 delegates and 400 companies participated in the fourth American Chamber of Commerce summit in ...

South Africa initiates second dispute complaint regarding EU citrus fruit measures (WTO) South Africa is challenging the EU’s prohibition on the importation of South African cit...

Kenya second-hand clothes imports from China rise 86pc (The East African) The quantity of second-hand clothes imported from China, which is Kenya’s main source of the popular lo...

South Africa seeks to secure global plastics pollution treaty by balancing competing interests (Engineering News) South Africa will seek to secure a legally binding global plastic...

South Africa well placed to benefit from huge green hydrogen outlook, attendees hear (Engineering News) Green hydrogen has a massive potential future and South Africa is very well...

This Trade Report explores the transformative role of climate-backed financing in accelerating Africa’s transition to a renewable energy future. It underscores the criticality of...

Chicken industry needs no tariff rebates because there is no shortage, Sapa stresses (Engineering News) Executives from the South African Poultry Association (Sapa) met with Trade...

$10-billion Namibian green hydrogen project receives major German boost (Engineering News) Namibia’s first gigawatt scale green hydrogen project – the $10-billion Hyphen devel...

Scorching heat raises SA food inflation risk (The Herald) Dryer and hotter-than-usual weather across South Africa’s main summer crop growing regions is hurting the outlook for t...

Workshop aims to provide an overview of the AfCFTA (SAnews) South Africa’s Special Economic Zones operators and businesses are to be exposed to the benefits of the African Conti...

As promised, South Africa’s finance minister, Enoch Godongwana, did announce incentives for New Energy Vehicle (NEV) manufacturing in his 2024 budget speech. But the package is d...

South Africa: Budget must address revenue challenges, infrastructure investments (Engineering News) While there has been a clear effort by the National Treasury to rein in spendin...

Vegetable export bans stir concerns in Southern African agriculture (Food For Mzansi) While Botswana and Namibia have banned vegetable exports from South Africa, trade relations b...

Energy shortage presents mining industry with opportunities, pivotal choices (Mining Weekly) The energy challenges facing mining companies in South Africa have given rise to signi...

Transnet says rail volumes recovered slightly in the last quarter of 2023 (Engineering News) Transnet says it has witnessed signs of recovery on the North Corridor, which was able...

Italy-Africa Summit Italy unveils its plan for the development of Africa (Africanews) Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on Monday unveiled Italy’s big development plan for Africa ...

Aqora becomes Afrivolt, aims for battery cell manufacturing in Cape Town (Engineering News) South African energy company Aqora has rebranded to become Afrivolt, says MD Deshan Nai...

South Africa must build renewable energy momentum, and then move on to other sectors (Engineering News) The rapid pace at which South Africa is building renewable energy projects,...

The African Union (AU) launched the Africa single electricity market (AfSEM) initiative in 2021 to boost the African electricity sector sustainably and promote an integrated contin...

South Africa to seek bids for new nuclear power station (Reuters) South Africa will launch a bidding process for an extra 2,500 megawatts (MW) of nuclear power by March, as the co...