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Engineers warn of unrest over project delays
[Mark Allix] Consulting Engineers SA says that the government must make "hard economic decisions" about SA's infrastructure development or face possible further unrest... read more>>



Building Materials & Equipment
Arcelormittal SA Q1 total sales down 4.9% y/y
ArcelorMittal SA (ACL) has suffered a 4.9% decline in first-quarter sales on a year-on-year basis. read more>>
Construction & Engineering
Sections of Joburg highways to be upgraded
Key sections of the Johannesburg highway system will soon be upgraded, but none of these roads will be tolled... read more>>
Transnet tugboat project progresses on time
Construction work on nine tugboats for Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) at the Southern African Shipyards premises in Durban is well under way... read more>>
Invicta formally appoints Charles Walters as CEO
Invicta (IVT), a distributor of capital equipment, spare parts and engineering consumables, said on Monday, 4 May, it had formally appointed Charles Walters as CEO... read more>>
Sustainable Development
49M Business Energy Rating Index gets more support
Sun International, MMI Holdings and Tiger Brands have demonstrated their commitment to the energy cause by becoming the latest corporates to participate in the 49M Business Energy Efficiency Index... read more>>
Utilities
Dismissals loom at Medupi over industrial unrest

Karl Gernetzky

Power utility Eskom is in the middle of an audit of the workforce at the embattled Medupi construction site amid signs that contractors could once again initiate dismissals, after more than a month of industrial unrest... read more>>
RioZim to build 1400MW coal-fired power plant

Charlotte Mathews

Power utility Eskom would be willing to buy electricity from coal-fired power stations being planned in Zimbabwe, as and when the utility had a shortfall, but it would not provide assistance to finance those projects, spokesman Khulu Phasiwe said on Tuesday, 5 May... read more>>
Bank backs SA's renewable energy plan from inception
SA has embarked on an ambitious renewable energy programme that will give the country the comfort of having a number of diversified sources of energy to feed into the national grid so that it is no longer dependent purely on conventional power stations... read more>>
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