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Fossil generation ‘substituted’ by renewables in 2025 amid electricity tipping point
Fossil generation ‘substituted’ by renewables in 2025 amid electricity tipping point
Updated 6 hours ago By: Terence Creamer

Record global electricity demand last year was met entirely by low-carbon sources, resulting in fossil fuels generation being substituted rather than supplemented, the Energy Institute’s ‘Statistical Review of World Energy 2026’ shows. Fossil... 


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Lufthansa Group to boost flights to and from South Africa
Updated 7 hours ago By: Rebecca Campbell

The Lufthansa Group has announced that it will operate an unprecedented number of flights between Europe and South Africa during the 2026-27 northern winter/southern summer season, starting at the... 


Mastercard opens Africa Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence
Updated 6 hours ago By: Schalk Burger

Payments processing multinational Mastercard has launched its Africa Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence – a pan-African initiative designed to strengthen cyber-resilience, enhance collaboration and... 


Africa saw the strongest air passenger growth in May, reports IATA
Updated 1 hour 42 minutes ago By: Rebecca Campbell

The global representative body for the airline industry, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), has reported that total global air passenger traffic fell by -2.2%, year-on-year, in... 


Dozens of governments sign commitment to boosting energy efficiency – IEA
Updated 1 hour 38 minutes ago By: Schalk Burger

Dozens of governments have issued a joint statement agreeing to make energy efficiency a cornerstone of energy policy in recognition of its critical role in building resilience against future... 


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Hormuz disruption may have lasting impact on vulnerable economies, UN trade agency says
Updated 5 hours ago By: Reuters

The UN trade and development agency warned on Tuesday that while the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz will bring immediate relief to energy markets, vulnerable economies remain at risk from... 


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World's deepest mines
World's deepest mines
26th June 2026

South Africa’s Witwatersrand gold basin dominates the list of the world’s deepest mines, claiming seven of the ten spots. Chasing ever-thinner reef seams buried beneath ancient rock, South African... 


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DRDGOLD's Regional Tailing Storage Facility.
DRDGOLD’s R8bn internally funded capital programme forging steadily ahead
Updated 2 hours 6 minutes ago By: Martin Creamer

Gold-from-mine-waste company DRDGOLD is looking at organic growth of 40% in throughput and 30% in output, using internally funded cash flows and infrastructure that can facilitate additional... 


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Inflation expectations rise before South Africa rate decision
30th June 2026 By: Bloomberg

South Africa’s two-year inflation expectations climbed,complicating the central bank’s efforts to anchor expectations around its 3% target. Average inflation expectations two years ahead, the... 


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Petrol, diesel prices to fall despite end of fuel levy relief
30th June 2026 By: Creamer Media Reporter

The Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources (DMPR) has confirmed that petrol and diesel prices will decrease significantly from July 1, despite the phasing out of the short-term fuel levy... 


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Oil set to end June down by about 20%, with investors focused on Doha
30th June 2026 By: Reuters

Oil prices dipped around 1% on Tuesday, reversing the previous session's gains, and were poised for a monthly decline, with investors eyeing potential US-Iran talks in Doha amid a strained interim... 


Mintek Supervisor Applied Chemical Analysis Nehemiah Mukwevho.
Attributes of platinum group metals explicated at Mintek PGM Day
30th June 2026 By: Martin Creamer

Platinum group metals (PGMs) have several properties that make them critical everyday-life minerals, Mintek supervisor applied chemical analysis Nehemiah Mukwevho explicated during his presentation... 


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City of Johannesburg group CFO Tebogo Moraka
Opinion: The Story of Johannesburg is the story of local government in South Africa
29th June 2026

In this article, City of Johannesburg group CFO Tebogo Moraka writes that the challenges facing the city are, in many respects, reflections of broader national realities and that the solutions... 


In May, Africa registered the strongest air cargo demand of all regions
29th June 2026 By: Rebecca Campbell

Global total air cargo demand increased by 6%, year-on-year (y-o-y), in May, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has reported. (IATA is the global representative body for the airline... 


SBI considers GNU’s impact on SMME development
SBI considers GNU’s impact on SMME development
29th June 2026 By: Sabrina Jardim

In commemoration of the second anniversary of the Government of National Unity (GNU) – formed in June 2024 – the Small Business Institute (SBI) has commissioned a think-piece from Septi Bukula, an... 


ZHAW senior researcher Dr Devi Bühler
Offgrid water treatment, reuse 'living laboratory' opened in Gauteng
29th June 2026 By: Schalk Burger

A research and demonstration project to treat and directly reuse wastewater, which will form a living laboratory to provide data to Swiss and South African researchers, has been launched at the... 


Joburg’s high operating expenditure dubbed ‘utterly unsustainable’
Joburg’s high operating expenditure dubbed ‘utterly unsustainable’
29th June 2026 By: Terence Creamer

New research into the crisis afflicting the City of Johannesburg warns that the widening structural imbalance between the metro’s operating expenditure and capital expenditure (capex) poses a... 


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Magazine round up | 26 June 2026
Magazine round up | 26 June 2026

A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader.  

DISTINCT SECTORS: The Minerals Council South Africa has expressed regret over some parts of the Industrial Development Strategy 2026 released by the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition this month. The council is especially perturbed by the strategy’s move to link beneficiation conditions to the issuance of mining rights. Mining and beneficiation, the council avers, are separate and distinct economic sectors in the mineral value chain. “Beneficiation cannot, and must not, be imposed on mining because beneficiation forms part of manufacturing and overall industrialisation,” CEO Mzila Mthenjane argues.
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The Minerals Council South Africa has expressed regret over some parts of the Industrial Development Strategy 2026 released by the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition this month. The... 

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South Africa must pursue every viable route to greater industrialisation

In a period where change is proving to be rapid and consequential, South Africa’s public and private sectors should go all out to collaboratively pursue every viable route to greater... 

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Firm timetable needed

The deadline has arrived for the Eskom Restructuring Task Team (ERTT) to deliver its detailed proposal and implementation plan for establishing a new State-owned Transmission System Operator (TSO).... 

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Pontsho Twala, director of the Wits Mining Institute
Pontsho Twala

This week we profile Pontsho Twala, director of the Wits Mining Institute, a multidisciplinary research institute that undertakes research in the mining sector, with a strong focus on technology,... 

WEATHER WARNING: In early June, the World Meteorological Organisation confirmed that there were indications of a potentially strong El Niño event developing. Fuelled by unusually warm ocean waters in the tropical Pacific, these conditions are set to influence global temperature and rainfall patterns, increasing the risk of extreme weather over the coming months. For South Africa, that portends a possible drought, with implications for food prices and security.
WEATHER WARNING

In early June, the World Meteorological Organization confirmed that there were indications of a potentially strong El Niño event developing. Fuelled by unusually warm ocean waters in the tropical... 

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