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NEWS
RENEWABLE ENERGY: SA’s wind-energy capacity could be 300 MW by 2012 – study
Wind-energy developments could supply up to 300 MW into South Africa’s electricity grid over the next three years, a new research study shows. However, the country’s energy-supply industry would continue to lag far behind that of countries in North Africa, which have far more ambitious targets and where there is already significant deployment experience.
Full report on Engineering News
CLIMATE CHANGE: WWF to assess SA’s transition to low-carbon economy
South Africa’s World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) is hoping to initiate discussions, and possibly also commission some analytical work on what the constraints and opportunities for the country’s transition to low-carbon economy are.
Full report on Engineering News
TRADE: EU eyes interim southern African trade pact
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said he expects to sign an interim trade pact with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) on Thursday."I look forward to Botswana's signature on the interim economic partnership agreement (EPA) on June 4," Barroso said after meeting Botswana's President Seretse Khama Ian Khama in Brussels.
Full report on the Tralac website
TRADE: South Africa: Trade Commission struggles to find feet as it loses court battle
The International Trade Administration Commission (Itac) which is a key state institution tasked with ensuring fair trade between SA and its international trading partners has suffered another blow in court, losing an appeal against it by Scaw Metals, which challenged a decision to have antidumping duties terminated on fishing and mining rope.
Full report on the Tralac website
BUSINESS: Cape Town Central City Downtown of the Month
Cape Town’s Central City has been chosen as the International Downtown Association’s (IDA’s) Downtown of the Month and is prominently featured on the homepage of this organisation – the world leader and champion for vital and liveable city centres.
Full report on the Cape Town Partnership website
PORT INFRASTRUCTURE: Projects worth R79,6m moving ahead at PE port, despite slowdown
Capital projects worth a combined R79,6-million would be implemented at the Port Elizabeth harbour during the 2009/10 financial year, the port’s landlord, Transnet National Ports Authority (NPA), confirmed this week. The projects would seek to provide port infrastructure ahead of demand, improve asset efficiency, and would be pursued despite the current economic slowdown.
Full report on Engineering News
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK: Manuel warns of looming risks to economic recovery
Despite some “green” and “brown” shoots of economic recovery, major risks loomed “perilously large”, South Africa’s Minister in The Presidency responsible for Planning, Trevor Manuel, said on Friday. Speaking in Parliament during a debate on President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation Address, Manuel acknowledged that there had been some indicators of stabilisation over recent weeks.
Full report on Engineering News
TRADE: SA ready to tighten screws as EU trade row turns ugly
SA was prepared to set up trade barriers with Botswana, Lesotho Mozambique and Swaziland to stop a flood of cheap imports entering the country. Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies sounded the warning yesterday after SA’s neighbours broke ranks and signed trade deals in the form of an interim economic partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU).
Full report on the Tralac website
POLICY: SA macro-economic environment will not change – Zuma
South Africa's stable macro-economic environment is not going to change, President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday. Replying in the National Assembly to points raised during debate on his state of the nation address, Zuma said South Africa's achievements since 1994 had been made on the back of a stable economic environment, and this would not change. Government had no intention to use the fiscus for general company bail-outs.
Full report on Engineering News
INDUSTRIAL ZONE: Coega looking for European investors for industrial zone
The operator of South Africa’s largest industrial development zone, the Coega Development Corporation (CDC), is embarking on a promotional campaign throughout Europe in a search for possible investors. The month-long campaign would see the company’s sector and regional specialists visiting a number of companies in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Denmark.
Full report on Engineering News
WORLD CUP: One year to FIFA World Cup kickoff
Thursday marks one year to the start of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, and local organisers are confident that South Africa’s preparations for the tournament remain on schedule. Brand South Africa has called on all South Africans to wear a Bafana Bafana jersey, or a yellow shirt, to fly the South African flag, to blow a vuvuzela and sing the national anthem on Thursday afternoon.
Full report on Engineering News
FINANCE: IDC to disburse R70bn over 5 years
South Africa's Industrial Development Corporation will provide R70-billion of new funding over the next five years to help local companies hurt by a global downturn, a senior official said on Friday. South Africa, Africa's biggest economy, is in its first recession in 17 years. Companies are being forced shut down or face bankruptcy as the financial crisis hits local industries.
Full report on Engineering News
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM: Africa should use global financial crisis to reshape policies
As this year’s World Economic Forum (Wef) on Africa comes to an end, the key messages emanating from the discussions are that Africa is open for business and there are opportunities for investment and further economic growth. It has also been concluded that Africa should take the opportunity of the global financial crisis to reshape its policies and practices in order to feature more prominently in a new world order and new financial architecture that is currently being formulated.
Full report on Engineering News
INVESTMENT: Heineken to build malting facility at SA brewery
Heineken NV, the world's third-largest brewer, is in talks to build a malting facility at its new brewery in South Africa and a deal is expected soon, a company official said on Tuesday.
Full report on the Mail & Guardian online
PORT INFRASTRUCTURE: Expanded berth at Cape Town container terminal to be operational in July
The R4,2-billion capacity expansion at the Cape Town container terminal, is progressing well, with the first of four berths to be deepened expected to come on stream in July, Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) reported on Monday. Berth 601, which was the first of four berths that was being deepened to a depth of 15,5 m to accommodate larger new-generation vessels, once dredging, deepening and the quay wall refurbishment were completed.
Full report on Engineering News
TELECOMS: A faster, cheaper internet on way to SA
In what has been hailed as the most significant change in the history of information technology on the continent, South Africans look set to benefit from faster and cheaper internet towards the end of June.
Full report on IOL
ECONOMIC OUTLOOK: SA economy at bottom of downturn, to grow by 2,1% in 2010
Businesses had to know where in the business cycle they were positioned and what their sensitivity to the business cycle was, to enable them to survive the downturn, economic analysis firm IHS Global Insight senior economist for South Africa Ronèl Oberholzer said on Thursday.
Full report on Engineering News
WORLD CUP 2010: Security crucial goal for World Cup 2010 host South Africa
The 2010 World Cup begins in exactly one year in South Africa, and it isn't the construction of stadiums or transportation systems that organizers are most concerned about. Rather, they are working furiously to convince the rest of the world they can host such a massive event and keep fans safe from violent crime.
Full report on the Miami Herald
SKILLS: SA to rethink skills initiatives, but will continue private sector partnerships
South Africa’s latest official unemployment statistics reflect that 23,5% economically active South Africans, or 4,2-million people, are currently jobless. However, if that figure were to include those discouraged from actively seeking employment, known as the ‘broad’ definition of unemployment, the figure swells to an even more frightening 28,4%, or 5,3-million people.
Full report on Engineering News
TRADE: Free trade not yet a reality in SADC
Business Unity South Africa (Busa) has urged that the outstanding issues hampering the full implementation of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) free trade area (FTA) be addressed by ministers of the bloc.
Full report on the Tralac website
WATER: SA to spend R30bn on water-infrastructure projects – Sonjica
South Africa would spend R30-billion over the next five to eight years on continuing construction and establishing 15 mega water-infrastructure projects. Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica said on Wednesday that these projects would increase the capacity of existing water resources infrastructure to provide water to strategic installations such as the energy sector, the industrial sector, and the mining sector, as well as for domestic purposes.
Full report on Engineering News
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