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What’s so smart about smart meters?

Christo Nicholls, CEO: Smart Utility Solutions for Edison Power Group, unpacks the methodology behind smart meter roll-out to unlock the technology’s true potential. The advantages of smart meters are threefold: they provide accurate billing, alarm...

Building a network of strength

Pretoria Portland Cement is the corporate embodiment of its product. Through its extensive service offering it ensure sustainability and skills transfer – literally, and figuratively, holding the built environment together. Cement and concrete are...

Operating without professional indemnity cover

Thousands of South African professionals run a daily gauntlet of operating businesses and offering fee-based consulting services without the safety net of professional indemnity (PI) insurance. Many have been doing so for years, and are...
President Jacob Zuma

Zuma leads SA delegation to BRICS summit

President Jacob Zuma and a delegation of cabinet ministers are in Ufa, Russia were they will participate in the 7th BRICS Summit. Russian President Vladimir Putin is hosting the two-day meeting of the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South African...

First phase of N12 upgrade complete

The first phase of the N12 freeway upgrade has been completed at a cost of R100 million, Gauteng MEC for Roads and Transport, Ismail Vadi, announced on Tuesday. The rehabilitated portion of the freeway stretches from Eldorado Park to Zuurbekom,...

Prasa responds to “tall” tales about new locos

The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) has dismissed media reports that its new locomotives exceed the country’s rail height restrictions. According to the article, 13 of the 70 AFRO4000 locomotives, which PRASA has so far received, have...

Great potential for investor growth at Coega

There is a lot of potential for investor growth at the Coega Development Corporation (CDC) Industrial Development Zone (IDZ) in the Eastern Cape, says Deputy Minister of Energy Thembisile Majola. The Coega Development Corporation has in the 2014/15...

Prasa’s new locos too tall for SA railways

The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) has come under the spotlight following reports that it imported brand new locomotives from Europe worth hundreds of millions of rand despite explicit warnings that the trains are not suited for...