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Side-stream beneficiation required more recognition in South Africa, with much of the focus having been on defining downstream beneficiation, Chamber of Mines (CoM) senior executive Roger Baxter...
The African Union (AU) released, today its events schedule for what will be a memorable, people centred and global year long celebrations which kick off in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Sunday 19 May...
Manufacturing, Engineering and Related Services Education and Training Authority (Merseta) CEO Raymond Patel on Thursday challenged government’s National Development Plan (NDP) vision of shifting...
The 2013 Q1 Manufacturing Circle Survey introduces a new section (section 6 in the report) monitoring local procurement, both in terms of the degree to which local manufacturers procure locally, as...
Giving a keynote address at the Annual Conference of the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation (SEIFSA) in Midrand today on the National Development Plan (NDP), Raymond Parsons, Special...
In 1994, South Africa completed the monumental shift out of the oppressive apartheid system and towards democracy in an attempt to tilt the scales towards freedom and equality.(2) Under the...
In approaching the NDP we should not begin, as some have done, with the intention of simply approving or rejecting it. Most of those who line up in this way have probably not read the 484-page NDP...
Youth entrepreneurs will have R2.7-billion in funding available to them with the announcement by Minister of Economic Development Ebrahim Patel that the Small Enterprise Finance Agency (Sefa) will...
The iron-ore mining industry, like other economic sectors, was pummelled by the 2008 worldwide economic downturn. However, thanks to stimulus packages introduced in 2009 resulted in the...
I have the honour to present the 4th budget of the Economic Development Department, known as EDD.
Given our responsibility to integrate efforts on economic development across government, the...
South Africa’s first wind tower manufacturing facility, which will be built at a cost of R300-million in the Coega Industrial Development Zone, outside Port Elizabeth, would produce its first...
The time was ripe to review South Africa’s monetary policy, which was cited as one of the main challenges facing the country’s manufacturing sector, Manufacturing Circle executive director...
Correctional Services Minister Sibusiso Ndebele says that the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) will continue to enable inmates to make a positive contribution to communities.
Yesterday,...
Numsa on Tuesday demanded a 20% across-the-board pay rise in the auto assembly, tyre manufacturing, iron, steel, and base metals manufacturing sectors. "All wage increases, across all sectors, must...
The Competition Tribunal will begin hearings on May 13 into an excessive-pricing referral made by the Competition Commission in 2010 against Sasol regarding the sale of propylene and polypropylene...