Natalie Greve
Natalie Greve is Creamer Media Senior Contributing Editor Online for Engineering News and Mining Weekly.
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Business confidence largely stagnant in Q1
10th March 2015 South Africa’s Business Confidence Index (BCI), as measured by the Bureau for Economic Research (BER) and Rand Merchant Bank (RMB), slipped two... →
Eastern Cape commits R1.28bn to road upgrades in 2015
6th March 2015 Eastern Cape Treasury MEC Sakhumzi Somyo has committed the province to ramping up infrastructure development and maintenance and improving... →
JDA breaks ground on R130m pedestrian bridge linking Sandton, Alexandra
4th March 2015 Marking another milestone in the City of Joburg’s efforts to dismantle Apartheid spatial planning and develop transport corridors linking key... →
Gauteng housing strategy to target ‘mega’ human settlements
27th February 2015 The Gauteng Provincial Government has outlined plans to develop a handful of “mega” human settlements as part of an ambitious long-term housing... →
Efforts under way to centralise govt procurement system
25th February 2015 Following the revelation by National Treasury last month that the South African public sector spent an “enormous” R500-billion on goods and... →
R274bn earmarked for infrastructure development in 2015/16, MTEF spend cut
25th February 2015 Prioritising spending on “economic” infrastructure such as roads and transport, electricity, and water and sanitation, the 2015 National Budget has... →
Motorists will still have to pay e-tolls, Nene confirms
25th February 2015 Cost recovery from road users will remain the principal financing mechanism of the of the Gauteng Freeway improvement Project (GFIP), as not all... →
Treasury to review public sector salaries in 2015
25th February 2015 Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene has committed National Treasury to undertake a comprehensive assessment of the public sector wage bill this year... →
DMR to spend R4.1-billion in compliance crackdown
25th February 2015 Clamping down on noncompliant mining companies, the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) plans to spend some R4.1-billion, or 81.4% of its total... →
New e-toll system should provide ‘major’ relief for motorists – Makhura
23rd February 2015 While noting during his State of the Province address that a final decision on the new e-toll dispensation would only be made once the work of the... →
Parliament commends outgoing SKA SA head Fanaroff
20th February 2015 Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Science and Technology has lauded the achievements of retiring Square Kilometer Array (SKA) South Africa... →
Innovative W Cape entrepreneurs awarded R6.2m
18th February 2015 Twelve innovative entrepreneurs in the Western Cape have secured total funding of R6.5-million from the Design Innovation Seed Fund to take their... →
SA govt’s ‘Anglo-Saxon’ approach to blame for lack of skills – report
18th February 2015 South African businesses continue to struggle to find adequate skills in South Africa as a result of government’s focus on building supply-side... →
Shale gas an ‘unlikely’ prospect, not necessarily cheap – WWF-SA
17th February 2015 A preliminary report by the World Wide Fund for Nature-South Africa (WWF-SA) has described shale gas as a marginal resource that remains reliant on... →
New energy firm to provide 700 MW of power to Africa by 2018
17th February 2015 Global wind and solar company Mainstream Renewable Power and emerging market private equity firm Actis have launched a Pan-African renewable-energy... →
Possible VAT hike on the cards
17th February 2015 South Africans may soon see the cost of consumer goods rising, with law firm Norton Rose Fulbright warning of the possible announcement of an... →
Firms describe Q4 manufacturing conditions as ‘fragile’
16th February 2015 Replicating the trend seen in the last three months of 2013, 60% of firms surveyed by the Manufacturing Circle (MC) in the fourth quarter of 2014... →
Cuban water engineers arrive in SA as part of controversial cooperation deal
16th February 2015 Water and Sanitation Minister Nomvula Mokonyane has welcomed 35 Cuban engineers seconded to South Africa for a two-year term within the framework... →
Mismatch between contracts, contractors driving construction defects – CIDB
16th February 2015 A “mismatch” between construction tenders and the contractors awarded these projects appears to be at the heart of increasing dissatisfaction by... →
E-toll report, consultations insufficient to resolve impasse, says Outa
11th February 2015 The Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) has placed on record its concern surrounding the e-toll review process, stating on Wednesday that... →
Global wind generation capacity grows by record 44% in 2014
11th February 2015 After a slowdown in 2013, the wind industry set a new record for yearly installations in 2014, adding 51 477 MW of wind generating capacity... →
Trade conditions surprise in January
11th February 2015 January trade conditions have surprised to the upside, with the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) reporting on Wednesday that... →
AU adopts 48-year African development plan
10th February 2015 Endorsing an Afrocentric development approach that aims to achieve the continent’s socioeconomic transformation by 2063, the African Union (AU) has... →
Final determination on e-tolls in sight
6th February 2015 In the final round of consultations centred on the province’s litigious e-tolling system, Gauteng Premier David Makhura on Friday met with... →
Business confidence sees modest rise in Jan
5th February 2015 In its slowest start to the year since 1997, the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (Sacci’s) Business Confidence Index (BCI) rose by... →
Sacci proposes radical alternatives to load shedding
5th February 2015 The South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) on Thursday proposed sweeping measures to tackle the country’s enduring energy crisis,... →
Treasury calls for reform of public sector procurement, SCM practises
4th February 2015 Noting that the South African public sector spent an “enormous” R500-billion on goods and services and construction works in the 2013/14 fiscal... →
Daily podcast – February 4, 2015
4th February 2015 Making headlines: Eskom implements stage one power cuts. Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa welcomes the recent deployment of an Electoral Advisory... →
Authority seeks bidders for LHWP Phase 2 work packages
3rd February 2015 The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) has issued three tenders for construction upgrading, geotechnical investigation works and... →
Indian footwear institute to transfer skills to local DTI cluster
2nd February 2015 The Indian Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Textiles has seconded a team of six experts to the National Footwear Leather Cluster (NFLC) – a... →
SAA again chalks up FY loss on impairments, intl operations
2nd February 2015 National carrier South African Airways (SAA) has posted an operating loss of R374-million for the year ended March 31, 2014, attributing its... →
Govt will not bail out SAA, vows Nene
30th January 2015 Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene has assured that loss-making national carrier South African Airways (SAA) will not receive another bailout from... →
Zuma outlines progress on African infrastructure projects
30th January 2015 Commenting in his capacity as chairperson of the Presidential Infrastructure Championing Initiative (PICI), President Jacob Zuma this week provided... →
Gauteng on the hunt for new bank to manage account
29th January 2015 The Gauteng Provincial Treasury has issued a five-year tender seeking a bank capable of managing the province’s multibillion-rand centralised... →
Joburg named the country’s ‘greenest’ metro
28th January 2015 The City of Johannesburg, whose environmental policy innovations include an integrated waste management plan that covers all relevant environmental... →
Treasury unlikely to raise, amend mining taxes in 2015/16 – Deloitte
28th January 2015 Amid a growing appreciation by government of the challenges and impasses constraining the South African mining sector, consulting group Deloitte... →
DTI rubbishes suggestions of possible delay to introduction of BEE Codes
23rd January 2015 The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has rejected claims by black economic-empowerment (BEE) advisory firm EconoBEE that there is likely to... →
SA top renewable-energy investment destination, says global firm
20th January 2015 Despite an array of challenges ranging from labour volatility, a weakened currency and unpredictable policy, South Africa continues to lure... →
Findings of e-toll review panel contradictory, says Outa
20th January 2015 While concurring with certain findings of the e-tolls review panel's report released last week, civil action group the Opposition to Urban Tolling... →
DoT, Sanral commit to studying e-toll report
16th January 2015 Acknowledging the release of a report on the impact of e-tolls on the people of Gauteng, Transport Minister Dipuo Peters on Friday committed... →
Nene meets with SA business leaders ahead of WEF meeting
15th January 2015 Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene, accompanied by Communications Deputy Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, met with the CEOs and business executives of... →
