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Nkoko Sekete, regional manager, Dr PD Sekete, founder and Thabang Sekete, business development manager

Health first

Founded by a medical doctor who wanted to improve his township patients’ health, Buhle Waste has its roots in healthcare so it was only natural that it should grow to become a leading medical waste management company. Thabang Sekete, business...

South Africa’s push for renewables

Already the continent’s largest producer of renewable energy, South Africa is moving to further reduce its reliance on hydrocarbons by expanding private sector investments in solar and wind projects, and introducing biofuels. Under the Renewable...

Biofuel – resource of the future

Can energy crops such provide fuel and raw materials for the chemical industry? With flying cameras and three-dimensional nuclear spin imaging Ulrich Schurr is studying the growth of energy crops like rapeseed, sugar beets, China grass.  ...
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Sustainable biofuel being developed

Two leading airline companies are collaborating to make sustainable aviation biofuel from a new type of tobacco plant. This initiative broadens cooperation between South African Airways (SAA) and Boeing to develop renewable jet fuel in ways that...
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Biofuels blending framework to be finalised

In October 2013, the Minister of Energy determined 2015 as the date by which crude oil refining companies will have to blend biofuels into petrol and diesel on a mandatory basis.  The Department of Energy will focus on finalising the subsidy...

Fishing vessels powered by converted cooking oil

Used cooking oil from the Spur Corporation is now being converted into biodiesel. More than a million litres have already been sued to power a range of fishing vessels, trucks and mining equipment. Spur has run this initiative for around six years...

Biofuel on the South African horizon

Greener fuel will finally come to South Africa with the announcement by the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) that R5.1 billion will be made available to develop liquid biofuels. The money will be used to support the production of 300...