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19 June 2013
                       
 
 
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18 Jun 2013
 
 
Public Enterprises and Free State Economic Development host Educational Youth Camp Tour
WHATS ON
The Department of Public Enterprises together with the Free State Department of Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs (DETEA) and the Department of Education will host 100 grade...
 
 
13 Jun 2013
 
COSATU: Statement by Patrick Craven, Congress of South African Trade Unions National Spokesperson, on the Presidential Review Committee's Report on State Owned Entities (13/06/2013)
STATEMENT
On the 28th May 2013, the Minister in the Presidency, Comrade Collin Chabane, released a long-awaited report of the Presidential Review Committee (PRC) on State Owned Entities (SOEs). According to...
 
 
 
 
Daily podcast – June 13, 2013.
PODCAST
State-owned electricity utility Eskom announced on Wednesday that new labour agreements have been finalised with contractors and unions at the strike-prone Medupi and Kusile power-station sites....
 
 
07 Jun 2013
 
SA: Derek Hanekom: Address by the Minister of Science and Technology, at the Launch of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research's Titanium Bench-Scale pilot plant, Pretoria (07/06/2013)
SPEECH
The Department of Science and Technology is leading a national programme to develop a titanium metal industry in South Africa, the establishment of which has been identified as a key growth area....
 
 
06 Jun 2013
 
FMF: Statement by the Free Market Foundation, independent policy organisation promoting economic freedom, on South Africa looking towards the future for the electricity supply (06/06/2013)
STATEMENT
“Keeping the lights on is bad for the SA economy”, said Doug Kuni, MD of SAIPPA at a media briefing at the FMF on June 05. “The real cost to the economy is staggering not least the cost of...
 
 
Foreign investors still interested in SA mining sector
LABOUR
Foreign investors are still interested in South Africa’s mining sector, Deputy Minister of Mineral Resources Godfrey Oliphant said, adding that a number of projects are shovel-ready in the...
 
 
31 May 2013
 
No new Medupi, Kusile labour deal yet, but progress reported
POWER PROJECTS
Power utility Eskom, its contractors and trade unions representing workers at the Medupi and Kusile power-station project sites have not been able to conclude a new labour agreement by the end of...
 
 
28 May 2013
 
DA: Statement by Natasha Michael, DA Shadow Minister of Public Enterprises, welcomes privatisation of State-Owned Entities (28/05/2013)
STATEMENT
The recommendation of the Presidential Review on State-Owned Entities that SOEs must be ‘rationalised’ is a welcomed development which will go a long way in improving the quality of service...
 
 
Report calls for overhaul of SOE governance, financing and executive pay
STATE-OWNED ENTITIES
The long-awaited report by the Presidential Review Committee (PRC) on State-owned entities (SOEs) has recommended that all commercial State-owned companies be consolidated under a central executive...
 
 
24 May 2013
 
Eskom mulls ways to plug R225bn hole, hints to more support
ELECTRICITY
Eskom reaffirmed to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Energy on Friday that it would not, through efficiencies alone, be able to close the R225-billion financial gap arising from the...
 
 
Talent Management
REAL ECONOMY: IMMIGRATION
The 2013 departmental Budget-Vote cycle has more or less come and gone, with South Africa’s Cabinet Ministers having outlined their various programmes and spending priorities for the current...
 
 
16 May 2013
 
Eskom awards 46 wind-turbine contract for Sere wind farm
RENEWABLE ENERGY
State-owned electricity group Eskom has awarded technology group Siemens the contract to supply 46 wind turbines to its 100 MW Sere wind farm project, which is being developed on a 3 700 ha site...
 
 
14 May 2013
 
Gigaba outlines vision for using SOC capex to spawn new black miners, industrialists
PUBLIC ENTERPRISES
Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba reported on Tuesday that initiatives would be announced in the coming months to add momentum to a “comprehensive industrialisation and transformation...
 
 
09 May 2013
 
DA: Statement by Joe McGluwa, DA Shadow Minister in the Presidency, concerned by plans to place PetroSA and SABC under the Department of Public Enterprises' jurisdiction (09/05/2013)
STATEMENT
Reports today that the Presidential State-Owned Entities’ (SOE) Review Committee, headed up by the Minister in the Presidency for Performance, Monitoring and Evaluation, Collins Chabane, is...
 
 
SA: Dipuo Peters: Address by the Minister for Energy, at the signing of agreements for the Financial Close for the Independent Power Procedures Window 2 Procurement Programme, Pretoria (09/05/2013)
STATEMENT
It gives me great delight that this day has finally arrived. Another opportunity presents itself to our successful bidders and Eskom to enter into the requisite agreements that will see the...
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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