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Boxer formally announces its intention to list on JSE

Blue Label Media partners with African Bank to roll out new corporate identity across 155 buses

Data breach alert: Over 100,000 fake accounts linked to SA grant-fraud claim

Copper could cure Murray & Roberts cold after De Beers diamond cough

Lindsey Schutters

#OrchidsandOnions: Spar reminds us why we're special with Christmas ad

Brendan Seery

News24 journalists take top honours in 2024 Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards

AGL wins Service Provider of the Year award at the Invest in African Energy Awards 2024

AGL wins Service Provider of the Year award at the Invest in African Energy Awards 2024Africa Global Logistics

Fishers in Port Nolloth are opposing TotalEnergies’ bid to explore for gas and oil off the West Coast. Photo: Ashraf Hendricks/GroundUp

Court bid to block TotalEnergies gas project off West Coast

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Concentrated solar power plant. Source Wikipedia

First CSP molten salt tower expected to electrify 210,000 SA homes during peak demand periods

12 May 2021

Cederberg wine farm installs solar energy plant to lower carbon footprint

Cederberg wine farm installs solar energy plant to lower carbon footprint

10 May 2021

Energy performance certificates set to become mandatory for some buildings

Energy performance certificates set to become mandatory for some buildings

30 Apr 2021

Why renewable energy won't end energy poverty in Zimbabwe

Why renewable energy won't end energy poverty in Zimbabwe

Ellen Fungisai Chipango 30 Apr 2021

Jon Duncan, head, responsible investment, Old Mutual

Exxaro's move to renewable a sign of progress

29 Apr 2021

Ethiopian protestors march down 42nd Street in New York during a “It’s my Dam” protest on March 11, 2021. Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images

Solar and wind power could break the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam deadlock

Sebastian Sterl 19 Apr 2021

Anglo American Kumba Iron Ore launches programme to improve educational development in NC

Anglo American Kumba Iron Ore launches programme to improve educational development in NC

26 Mar 2021

Scaling up bioenergy production could substantially raise water stress - new study

Scaling up bioenergy production could substantially raise water stress - new study

12 Mar 2021

SU building first in SA to receive Electrical Performance Certificate

SU building first in SA to receive Electrical Performance Certificate

1 Mar 2021

How extractive industries manage to carry on harming the planet

Judith Verweijen & Alexander Dunlap 23 Feb 2021

Koeberg nuclear power station

What is it about nuclear energy that its opponents don't want you to know?

Des Muller 15 Feb 2021

#SONA2021: Eskom warns of power shortfall over next 5 years

#SONA2021: Eskom warns of power shortfall over next 5 years

12 Feb 2021

The judgement this week by Western Cape Deputy Judge President Patricia Goliath is a reminder to corporations that they cannot use the law to silence activists, says the writer. Illustration: Lisa Nelson

Slapp-ing back: Court checks corporate bullying

11 Feb 2021

Mega co-located trade show set for Joburg in November

Mega co-located trade show set for Joburg in November

10 Feb 2021

A worker poses with a handful of nickel ore at the nickel mining factory of PT Vale Tbk, near Sorowako, Indonesia, 8 January, 2014. REUTERS/Yusuf Ahmad//File Photo

Exclusive: Facing green pressure, Indonesia halts deep-sea mining disposal

Fransiska Nangoy and Fathin Ungku 9 Feb 2021

Andrew van Zyl, partner and principal consultant at SRK Consulting

Decarbonisation will need more, better mining

5 Feb 2021

Mosadi Kwele speaks at a community meeting held on 19 January 2020, while Itumeleng Nyaka holds the megaphone. Like many others at the meeting, Kwele says Ikwezi Vanadium must respond to the community’s queries before continuing with mining activities at Haakdoornfontein farm. Photo: Masego Mafata

Community and mining company clash over vanadium-rich land

Masego Mafata 28 Jan 2021

Jacques Farmer, managing director, Prisma

Community development in the mining industry requires buy in and training to be effective

Jacques Farmer 19 Jan 2021

REDZ and their role in a just energy transition

18 Jan 2021

#BizTrends2021: A bright horizon for South Africa's energy landscape

#BizTrends2021: A bright horizon for South Africa's energy landscape

Barry Bredenkamp 7 Jan 2021

Verreaux’s Black Eagle flying high. Author supplied/Megan Murgatroyd

Finding space for both wind farms and eagles in South Africa

Megan Murgatroyd & Arjun Amar 7 Jan 2021

AfDB approves funding for mini-grid advancement in Africa

AfDB approves funding for mini-grid advancement in Africa

31 Dec 2020

Grid or solar: looking for the best energy solution for the rural poor

Grid or solar: looking for the best energy solution for the rural poor

Jörg Peters and Maximiliane Sievert 30 Dec 2020

AfDB approves Desert-to-Power technical support programme

AfDB approves Desert-to-Power technical support programme

28 Dec 2020

Path to a net-zero carbon emission SA requires visualisation, commitment

Path to a net-zero carbon emission SA requires visualisation, commitment

Eckart Zollner 24 Dec 2020

Four ways microbial fuel cells might revolutionise electricity production in the future

Four ways microbial fuel cells might revolutionise electricity production in the future

Godfrey Kyazze 23 Dec 2020

Green Business Support Services Directory offers support to green entrepreneurs and SMMEs

Green Business Support Services Directory offers support to green entrepreneurs and SMMEs

GreenCape 21 Dec 2020

Saretec celebrates graduation of newly certified wind turbine service technicians

Saretec celebrates graduation of newly certified wind turbine service technicians

18 Dec 2020

DiBiCoo project offering sustainable solutions for renewable energy in the biogas sector

DiBiCoo project offering sustainable solutions for renewable energy in the biogas sector

GreenCape 17 Dec 2020

Electricity customers should brace themselves for steeper increases. shutterstock

South Africa's electricity supply: what's tripping the switch

Rod Crompton 14 Dec 2020

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Concentrated solar power plant. Source Wikipedia

First CSP molten salt tower expected to electrify 210,000 SA homes during peak demand periods

12 May 2021

Cederberg wine farm installs solar energy plant to lower carbon footprint

Cederberg wine farm installs solar energy plant to lower carbon footprint

10 May 2021

Energy performance certificates set to become mandatory for some buildings

Energy performance certificates set to become mandatory for some buildings

30 Apr 2021

Why renewable energy won't end energy poverty in Zimbabwe

Why renewable energy won't end energy poverty in Zimbabwe

Ellen Fungisai Chipango 30 Apr 2021

Jon Duncan, head, responsible investment, Old Mutual

Exxaro's move to renewable a sign of progress

29 Apr 2021

Ethiopian protestors march down 42nd Street in New York during a “It’s my Dam” protest on March 11, 2021. Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images

Solar and wind power could break the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam deadlock

Sebastian Sterl 19 Apr 2021

Anglo American Kumba Iron Ore launches programme to improve educational development in NC

Anglo American Kumba Iron Ore launches programme to improve educational development in NC

26 Mar 2021

Scaling up bioenergy production could substantially raise water stress - new study

Scaling up bioenergy production could substantially raise water stress - new study

12 Mar 2021

SU building first in SA to receive Electrical Performance Certificate

SU building first in SA to receive Electrical Performance Certificate

1 Mar 2021

How extractive industries manage to carry on harming the planet

Judith Verweijen & Alexander Dunlap 23 Feb 2021

Koeberg nuclear power station

What is it about nuclear energy that its opponents don't want you to know?

Des Muller 15 Feb 2021

#SONA2021: Eskom warns of power shortfall over next 5 years

#SONA2021: Eskom warns of power shortfall over next 5 years

12 Feb 2021

The judgement this week by Western Cape Deputy Judge President Patricia Goliath is a reminder to corporations that they cannot use the law to silence activists, says the writer. Illustration: Lisa Nelson

Slapp-ing back: Court checks corporate bullying

11 Feb 2021

Mega co-located trade show set for Joburg in November

Mega co-located trade show set for Joburg in November

10 Feb 2021

A worker poses with a handful of nickel ore at the nickel mining factory of PT Vale Tbk, near Sorowako, Indonesia, 8 January, 2014. REUTERS/Yusuf Ahmad//File Photo

Exclusive: Facing green pressure, Indonesia halts deep-sea mining disposal

Fransiska Nangoy and Fathin Ungku 9 Feb 2021

Andrew van Zyl, partner and principal consultant at SRK Consulting

Decarbonisation will need more, better mining

5 Feb 2021

Mosadi Kwele speaks at a community meeting held on 19 January 2020, while Itumeleng Nyaka holds the megaphone. Like many others at the meeting, Kwele says Ikwezi Vanadium must respond to the community’s queries before continuing with mining activities at Haakdoornfontein farm. Photo: Masego Mafata

Community and mining company clash over vanadium-rich land

Masego Mafata 28 Jan 2021

Jacques Farmer, managing director, Prisma

Community development in the mining industry requires buy in and training to be effective

Jacques Farmer 19 Jan 2021

REDZ and their role in a just energy transition

18 Jan 2021

#BizTrends2021: A bright horizon for South Africa's energy landscape

#BizTrends2021: A bright horizon for South Africa's energy landscape

Barry Bredenkamp 7 Jan 2021

Verreaux’s Black Eagle flying high. Author supplied/Megan Murgatroyd

Finding space for both wind farms and eagles in South Africa

Megan Murgatroyd & Arjun Amar 7 Jan 2021

AfDB approves funding for mini-grid advancement in Africa

AfDB approves funding for mini-grid advancement in Africa

31 Dec 2020

Grid or solar: looking for the best energy solution for the rural poor

Grid or solar: looking for the best energy solution for the rural poor

Jörg Peters and Maximiliane Sievert 30 Dec 2020

AfDB approves Desert-to-Power technical support programme

AfDB approves Desert-to-Power technical support programme

28 Dec 2020

Path to a net-zero carbon emission SA requires visualisation, commitment

Path to a net-zero carbon emission SA requires visualisation, commitment

Eckart Zollner 24 Dec 2020

Four ways microbial fuel cells might revolutionise electricity production in the future

Four ways microbial fuel cells might revolutionise electricity production in the future

Godfrey Kyazze 23 Dec 2020

Green Business Support Services Directory offers support to green entrepreneurs and SMMEs

Green Business Support Services Directory offers support to green entrepreneurs and SMMEs

GreenCape 21 Dec 2020

Saretec celebrates graduation of newly certified wind turbine service technicians

Saretec celebrates graduation of newly certified wind turbine service technicians

18 Dec 2020

DiBiCoo project offering sustainable solutions for renewable energy in the biogas sector

DiBiCoo project offering sustainable solutions for renewable energy in the biogas sector

GreenCape 17 Dec 2020

Electricity customers should brace themselves for steeper increases. shutterstock

South Africa's electricity supply: what's tripping the switch

Rod Crompton 14 Dec 2020

#BestofBiz 2020: Energy & Mining

#BestofBiz 2020: Energy & Mining

14 Dec 2020

Firefighters dousing the fire at the Engen oil refinery in Durban, South Africa, in December 2020. GettyImages

Oil refinery blast is one more reason South Africa should take industrial risks seriously

Nontobeko Mtshali 11 Dec 2020

Coffer dam mining operations in 2017. Image from the report Amendment of Environmental Management Programmes for Mining Rights 554MRC, 10025MR, 512MRC and 513MRC - Volume 2: Mining Right 554MRC, November 2017 by SLR Consulting in association with Placer Resource Management.

Diamond divers warn of damage to seabed from West Coast mining dams

John Yeld 9 Dec 2020

Gas won't save SA's economy

Gas won't save SA's economy

8 Dec 2020

Photo: Martin Adams

Gas-to-power gains momentum on SA energy scene

2 Dec 2020

Cape Town is deploying rooftop solar plants to reduce load shedding

Cape Town to plug in to IPPs

2 Dec 2020

Eckart Zollner, head of business development, EDS Systems

SA's pursuit of net-zero carbon emission requires visualisation and commitment

Eckart Zollner 30 Nov 2020

Climate change and its impact on mining project planning

19 Nov 2020

Meaningful action urgently needed to clean up the energy system

Meaningful action urgently needed to clean up the energy system

John Green 11 Nov 2020

UCT's Dr Jiska de Groot a co-recipient of the 2020 Newton Prize

UCT's Dr Jiska de Groot a co-recipient of the 2020 Newton Prize

10 Nov 2020