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Mobile Companies Enter Data Race as MTN Joins African Utility Week
Johannesburg, South Africa, May 20, 2012 –(PR.com)– Machine-to-Machine (M2M) technology is set to change the way a multitude of industries operate, including the electricity and water sectors, says Kevin Jacobson of MTN Service Provider who will join South African Energy Minister Elizabeth Dipuo Peters and Eskom CEO Brian Dames in the opening session at next [...]
It’s a done deal on fracking
Independent Newspapers The Minister of Energy Dipuo Peters. Picture:Christiaan Louw South Africa is well on its way to embracing a nuclear and shale gas energy future with little likelihood that even if a vast reservoir of gas is found in the Karoo that the government will scale back plans to build new nuclear power plants. [...]
Solar can sort energy crisis
Eng. K. Ateenyi IN preparation of a series of international conference papers on energy, a stark reality has presented itself. It is not the obvious crisis of underpowered rural Africa. We have always known that the annual per-capita electrical usage of the 700 million Tropical Africans is 124 kWh – and is falling due to [...]
Iran sanctions could cost South Africa
- Article source: http://www.tehrantimes.com/economy-and-business/97999-iran-sanctions-could-cost-south-africa
South African fuel arrives in Malawi
Ten million litres of fuel bought using a $10m loan Malawi recently accessed from South Africa have landed in Lilongwe as the two countries finalise the transfer of the remaining $25m in the agreement. A handover ceremony was held in Lilongwe on Thursday where Energy Minister Cassim Chilumpha and South African High Commissioner to Malawi [...]
S.Africa "confident" of solution to Iran oil ban
CAPE TOWN May 17 (Reuters) – South Africa, which receives a quarter of its crude from Iran, is holding almost daily discussions with the United States, EU Union and Iran about reducing its purchases and is “confident” a deal can be struck to avert U.S. sanctions, a senior energy official said on Thursday. Washington, which [...]
Aid groups question Group of 8 plan to fight African hunger
Gregory Adams, spokesman for the humanitarian and advocacy organization Oxfam, said one of the key reasons for the lack of agricultural growth in African countries in recent decades has been a systematic government failure to invest in rural roads and other infrastructure that would enable farmers to increase production and get their goods to market. [...]
Africa’s biggest bank takes a sustainable approach
At 150 years of age, Standard Bank is one of South Africa’s oldest companies and no stranger to thinking in the long term. The group’s total assets of 1,497bn rand (£113bn) make it Africa’s biggest bank, a heavy burden of responsibility in the world’s poorest, least developed continent. Standard Bank’s most recent sustainability report describes [...]
Johannesburg Shows Its Green Credentials as It Hosts African Utility Week
Johannesburg, South Africa, May 18, 2012 –(PR.com)– The City of Johannesburg will welcome some 5000 power professionals from more than 60 countries for the annual African Utility Week, the continent’s largest utility services conference and exhibition, taking place from 21-24 May at Nasrec Expo Centre. Johannesburg’s 2040 vision is to create a world class African [...]
Joel Netshitenzhe – Sustainable Development and the Green Economy in South Africa
The Rio+20 summit is taking place from 20-22 June 2012 in Brazil where world leaders will be asked to make “voluntary commitments” towards a global plan for sustainable development. But, it looks like prospects for a new global agreement, which everybody signs on to, are looking bleak. The Inter Press Service reports that after two [...]
