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A new diamond recovery vessel, with an expected total capital cost of $468m, will become the seventh in the Debmarine Namibia fleet. The construction project is a 50:50 joint venture build with the Namibian government... read
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NICCI BOTHA
Energy Minister Jeff Radebe's vague promise that South Africa's long-overdue energy blueprint, the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), will be "concluded imminently" did, however, clearly indicate that coal would still play a prominent role in the country's energy mix...read
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Using technology to improve customer service and ultimately drive revenue may not necessarily be clear cut for utilities like Eskom...read
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NICCI BOTHA
Energy experts Ted Blom and Dr Grové Steyn differ in their opinion on the nature of the Eskom debt burden and thrashed it out in a panel discussion at the African Utility Week... Read
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NICCI BOTHA
Even if the country remained committed to long-term coal-fired energy in a world rapidly transforming to green energy, it would have difficulty finding investors to build the infrastructure... Read
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Energy
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ISSUED BY UCT GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Professor Anton Eberhard has been appointed to the Global Commission to End Energy Poverty, which will be launched officially at the UN General Assembly in New York in September... Read
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Markets & Investment
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MIKE WEBB
One of the key challenges in getting energy and infrastructure projects off the ground in Africa is the lack of available funding... Read
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Mining
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KATE COLLIER
A new guideline published by the chief inspector of mines aims to provide clarity on the process when the cause of a death on a mine is immediately unclear... Read
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LAURENCE SMITH,
South Africa's illegal mining trade was estimated at being worth R7bn a year in 2017, while the SA Human Rights Commission said there in 2015 that tere were about active 30,000 illegal miners (zama-zamas)... Read
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Nuclear Power
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Energy Minister Jeff Radebe has removed Phumzile Tshelane as chief executive officer and board member of the Nuclear Energy Corporation of SA (Necsa)... Read
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Renewables & Energy Efficiency
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ISSUED BY UCT GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
A teaching case study on the pioneering work of a Zambian solar-energy company has earned the UCT Graduate School of Business a prized win in the 2018 EFMD Case Writing Competition... Read
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SALONA NAIDOO AND GABI WOJTOWITZ
Welcome to the future, where a continent once cast in darkness has come into the light... Read
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The distorting of the physical and virtual world is reshaping businesses, industries and sectors... Read
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