juwi Renewable Energies, the South African subsidiary of the international juwi group, is to build the Mulilo Sonnedix Prieska PV solar park in the Northern Cape for Independent Power Producer (IPP) Sonnedix. The PV power plant has a total generation ...read more

The world is aging, and that matters for growth. In the past, an abundant and growing labor pool was a powerful engine of the world economy; today, the number of workers is starting to decline in many countries. This leaves no alternative but for companies ...read more

“The way we pay and the way we finance payables has a dramatic impact on the relationship and the commercial things you want from a supplier.” - CPO at a market-leading company We’ve seen it time and time again: your finance team discovers ...read more

Latest procurement and supply chain news, opinion, analysis, practical advice and tips from Supply Management, official publication of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (CIPS). ...read more

[This Day]Promoters of the SmartCity Innovation Hub technology project have promised to create 50,000 direct employments in the next five years. The hub is designed to promote economic diversification and to move the country towards a knowledge-based ...read more

As we enter our fifth year of operations, Bespoke is pleased to announce the appointment of two non-executive directors, as part of our long-term strategy of growth and transformation. As a leading procurement and supply chain management advisory ...read more

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Platinum giant Royal Bafokeng Platinum (RBPlat) has terminated its contract with Shaft Sinkers for its Styldfrift I project, about 5 km from Bafokeng Rasimone Platinum Mine's North Shaft, in the North West. ...read more

A further decline in the already depressed price of metals – particularly iron-ore, gold and copper – would severely affect a large number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the World Bank’s latest Global Economic Prospects (GEP) report warns. The ...read more

FAR from being a setback for the county, Malaysian oil giant Petronas’s decision to pull the plug on the proposed sale of its controlling stake in Engen to PetroSA is a welcome development. As a state-owned enterprise, PetroSA should never have ...read more

Contemporary procurement’s role is continuing its progress from decision support to one requiring a predictive capability; and increasingly there is currently demand for procurement professionals who can demonstrate that they are both commercially ...read more

Malaysia pulls out of R18bn deal a week before Christmas due to a lack of funding ...read more

The country was one step closer to delivering a multimodal, multifacet, integrated, accessible and reliable transport system as the first of 70 Spain-manufactured AFRO 4000-series locomotives is tested for power and functionality. Following the unveiling ...read more

South Africa’s Department of Energy (DoE) has issued a formal appeal for companies and individuals to provide it with information on possible near-term solutions to reduce or shift electricity demand, as well as to immediately improve supply – the responses ...read more

Manufacturing output for November fell below analyst expectations, registering a “disappointing” 1.3% year-on-year contraction. This followed on the revised 2.3% year-on-year uptick in October. ...read more

Energy will remain an apex priority for the ANC, President Jacob Zuma said on Saturday. Zuma made reference to the power shortfall facing the country in the ANC National Executive Committee's annual January 8 statement at the party's 103rd ...read more

President Jacob Zuma devoted much of his January 8th statement on Saturday to talking about corruption, saying there was a misperception that the ANC was largely responsible for it. "It cannot be, it is another misrepresentation of fact," ...read more

Appeal comes at the opening of the Cape Town hub of Anglo American and De Beer’s Zimele Enterprise Development ...read more

If 2014 goes down as an 'annus horribilis' for the commodities industry, few pundits are betting that prices will improve significantly over the next 12 months ...read more

Wealthiest members actually want — and are achieving — further price declines as part of attempt to hasten cutbacks by US shale drillers ...read more

2015 will be the year of the supplier; everything procurement teams do will have to connect back to the supply base. In this series of guest posts, Procurement Leaders asks solution providers in the procurement space for their predictions on the ...read more

In addition to the two new bidders — Kathu Solar Park and Redstone Solar Thermal Power, which will both build 100MW capacity — there are five other concentrated solar power projects ...read more

South Africa is poised to add yet more concentrating solar power (CSP) capacity, with two additional preferred projects named by the Department of Energy (DoE) and two others reaching financial close in December. The development brings to seven the ...read more

A STATE entity is forging ahead with a R4.3bn tender for the manufacture of television set-top boxes without the government having finalised its policy on the devices. The Universal Services and Access Agency of SA (Usaasa) issued the tender to comply ...read more

For fiscal policy, the commodity conundrum is a challenge in the short and the long term, writes Hilary Joffe ...read more

The recession and other business factors put procurement in the spotlight in 2014. The horse meat scandal that engulfed several supermarkets and slave wages in the supply chain of some clothes retailers are just a few examples. The demand for better supply ...read more