abb the global power and automation company announced that it has won contracts worth us$ 44 million from nigerias stateowned national electric power authority nepa for two transmission and distribution projects to upgrade the countrys electrical supply infrastructure this work is critical to the continued
CORRUPTION Watch the recently established civil society watchdog is considering ways to cast an anticorruption spotlight on South Africa’s R850billion infrastructure programme which is being led primarily by stateowned companiesExecutive director David Lewis says the programme which government aims to
cape town finance minister trevor manuels 2007 budget povides moderate personal income tax relief to counter inflation scraps tax on retirement funds and introduces a new form of dividend tax also in line with governments goal to fuel growth curb consumer spending and increase savings is the announcement
summit will ponder how to mop up eskom mess the blundering incompetence of eskom management and the government have together caused the energy crisis for which consumers are now expected to pay via massive tariff increasesat the same time however this situation has ironically highlighted the fact that
power distributor kenya power and lighting company invited bids for the construction of 883 kilometres of power lines around the country kplc said in a newspaper advertisement on tuesday various lengths of 11 kv 33 kv and lowvoltage lines were expected to be laid in the western and central parts of the
The Black River Office Park in Observatory Cape Town is in the process of installing the largest roofmounted solar photovoltaic system in Southern Africa Once completed the entire operation will generate around 19 gigawatt 19 million kilowatt hours per year or enough energy to power 1000 average sized
Johannesburg Hydrogen powered cars could reach production levels within three to five years and get the platinum industry out of its prolonged slump reported Sake24It seems that commercial production of fuel cell powered cars could get going by 2015 Jeremy Coombes head of marketing at Johnson Matthey
Johannesburg The water crisis in rural as well as urban areas in South Africa requires urgent state and private sector intervention at the highest level the Afrikaanse Handelsinstituut AHi warned on TuesdayDespite efforts by various role players the maintenance of water treatment and sewerage plants
jhb targets bad buildingsjohannesburg the city has kicked its better buildings programme up a gear to target far more buildings in the cbd in need of rejuvenation through a number of project packages it is hoped that over a threeyear period up to 1 000 buildings will be refurbished previously the programme
SOUTH AFRICAN engineering firm Gibb has been awarded a $248 million joint contract to construct a road and rail bridge of nearly one kilometre across the Zambezi River between Botswana and Zambia replacing the notorious Kazungula FerryConstruction on the 960m long bridge will begin in March next year