Graça Machel delivers a keynote on the Importance of Women’s Leadership in Zambia’s Energy Transition on October 24, 2024 2 minutes A study commissioned by the Graça Machel Trust has revealed that women still face societal prejudices, gender pay gaps and discriminatory lack of access to finance and technology. The Trust has gathered women from…
Electricity pylons 1 minute The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) will kick off its public hearings in Cape Town today before heading to other provinces. Eskom has applied to Nersa for a 36% electricity tariff hike from April next year. Residents have expressed anger and frustration over Eskom’s application. Nersa’s public hearings are scheduled to…
Street vendors wait for customers at an open market, 1 minute The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has welcomed South Africa’s latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey results but remains concerned about the plight of the working poor on the continent. The working poor are employed people who live in households that fall below an accepted poverty…
File: Closed Spaza shop 2 minutes The National Informal Traders Alliance of South Africa (NITASA) has expressed concern over the time allowed for spaza shops to register with government amid concerns about food contamination. President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced a raft of government interventions to regulate shops including spazas, following the recent spate of food…
[File photo:] Farm workers tending to crops. 2 minutes Land Reform and Rural Development minister, Mzwanele Nyhontso, has met with the residents of Qumanco in Cofimvaba in the Eastern Cape over the Ncorha Dairy Scheme which residents allege is being mismanaged. They say they are also not benefiting as land owners. The area operates under…
FILE PHOTO: Chickens are seen at a poultry farm at Hartbeesfontein, a settlement near Klerksdorp [File image] 2 minutes Chicken farmers in Ga-Mphahlele, outside Lebowakgomo in Limpopo, have raised concerns over the vandalism of their co-operative buildings. Building infrastructure and electricity cables have been stolen. The buildings were donated by Lonmin and subsidized by the…
KZN MEC for EDTEA, Rev. Musa Zondi officially launched the summer season campaign under the theme “Magical Zulu Kingdom” 3 minutes KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs Rev Musa Zondi says rural tourism is key to local economic development. Zondi was speaking at KwaXolo on the south coast during the launch of…
An illicit mining van of the South African Police Service is pictured in Stilfontein in the North West on 13 November 2024. 2 minutes Mining analyst David van Wyk says government needs to conduct audits of abandoned mines and ensure that the owners are prosecuted. He has warned that illegal mining will continue as long…
Electricity pylons. 1 minute Energy Council of South Africa (ECSA) says the country needs to invest R2 trillion in the electricity sector over the next decade. ECSA was briefing Parliament’s Electricity and Energy committee. ECSA and the Independent Power Producers Office were among the stakeholders that updated the Committee on the progress made on the…
S&P logo. 1 minute South Africa is making progress towards a sovereign credit upgrade. This as rating agency Standard and Poor’s (S&P) Global revised South Africa’s outlook to positive from stable on Friday night. S&P has kept the country’s rating at sub investment grade or junk. However, the latest improvement in the outlook points to…
