Natasha Odendaal
Natasha Odendaal is Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor for Engineering News and Mining Weekly.
Icasa to urgently, responsibly release emergency spectrum
6th April 2020 The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa is planning to temporarily release the high-demand International Mobile Telecommunications... →
Vodacom, Discovery to offer Covid-19 screening platform
2nd April 2020 Vodacom and Discovery have teamed up to develop risk assessment and virtual healthcare tools for citizens to assess their Covid-19 risk, schedule... →
Vodacom e-School registration reaches one-million users
1st April 2020 User registration on telecommunications group Vodacom’s e-School platform is nearing one-million as South Africa’s schools remained closed. With... →
DWS delivers 287 water tank across Gauteng
30th March 2020 The Department of Water and Sanitation on March 30 reported the delivery of another 100 water tanks to needy communities in Soweto. Amid a national... →
R2K to picket over Rica privacy failure
19th February 2020 Advocacy organisation, the Right2Know (R2K) Campaign on Wednesday held protests in Pretoria and Cape Town against what it says is the failure of... →
DWS starts to move on implementing master plan strategies
3rd December 2019 A week after the launch of the National Water and Sanitation Master Plan, the Department of Water and Sanitation has announced plans to start... →
Spectrum is an inhibitor to lowering data prices, Vodacom, MTN insist
3rd December 2019 A lack of access to spectrum remains a significant inhibitor in efforts to lower data prices, mobile operators Vodacom and MTN have said in... →
Competition Commission's final report confirms South Africa's high data costs
2nd December 2019 The Competition Commission on Monday published its much-anticipated final report on its Data Services Market Inquiry, confirming revelations that... →
Gauteng outlines ambitions for climate change mitigation
21st November 2019 After two years of development, gathering input, undertaking consultations and further refinements, the Gauteng City Region is preparing to... →
Prolonged drought hits South African farmers’ resilience
12th November 2019 Federation of agricultural organisations AgriSA on Tuesday painted a dire picture of the impact the years-long drought has had on South Africa’s... →
Water-shedding can be avoided, says Sisulu
28th October 2019 Water-stressed South Africa has to decrease the amount of water consumed or face the prospect of “water-shedding”. The Department of Water and... →
Eskom confident of avoiding summer load-shedding but does not rule it out
4th September 2019 State-owned power utility Eskom on Wednesday said it was unlikely that there would be any load-shedding over the next seven months as the utility’s... →
Telecoms policy proposes shared approach to spectrum to open market
29th July 2019 The Department of Communications and Digital Technologies has released the long-awaited Policy on High Demand Spectrum, along with the Policy... →
Spectrum policy to be issued in the next few days
25th July 2019 Cabinet has approved the latest iteration of the long-awaited Policy and Policy Direction for the Licensing of the High Demand Spectrum. It is... →
Sisulu promises traction in water sector
16th July 2019 The Department Water and Sanitation is taking stock as it determines the required solutions for a sector fraught with major inequalities and... →
Spectrum policy to be released within 7 days
11th July 2019 After years-long delays, the now-urgent final policy directive on spectrum allocation will be issued to the Independent Communications Authority of... →
Ramaphosa throws weight behind 4IR as South Africa’s growth accelerator
5th July 2019 South Africa is positioning itself not as an adopter but rather as a leader and driver of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) worldwide,... →
Makhura promises revitalised plan for Gauteng by end August
1st July 2019 Stimulating the economy is at the top of Gauteng Premier David Makhura’s agenda for the first 100 days of the sixth provincial administration.... →
Collaboration seen as key as SA moves to position for 4IR epoch
17th May 2019 While President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) visions for South Africa are gaining some traction, the success of a new... →
WRC, DWS launch new satellite earth observation project
15th March 2019 The Water Research Commission (WRC), the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) and the Department of Science and Technology on Friday released a... →
Western Cape dam levels improve year-on-year
4th March 2019 The average dam levels in the Western Cape have improved significantly year-on-year from 20.3% in the corresponding week last year, to 40.5% this... →
Gauteng allocates large chunk of 2018/19 budget to health, education
6th March 2018 The Gauteng departments of Education and Health have secured the largest slices of Gauteng’s R121.2-billion budget for the 2018/19 financial year.... →
Icasa to finalise End-user and Subscriber Service Charter Regulations by end April
1st March 2018 The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) plans to publish the final End-user and Subscriber Service Charter Regulations by... →
Cape Town drought hits tourism, threatens province’s credit ratings
7th February 2018 As the ongoing drought and resultant water crisis threatens Cape Town’s credit ratings and gross domestic product (GDP) growth, warnings of the... →
Joburg’s anticorruption unit clamps down on corruption amounting to R16.2bn
17th November 2017 Corruption amounting to R16.2-billion across 2 469 cases, now under investigation, has been uncovered over the past year by the City of... →
Gauteng moves from debate to action regarding transformation
9th November 2017 Gauteng Premier David Makhura on Thursday said South Africa’s most populous province was no longer just talking about pursuing radical... →
South Africa only in phase one of political instability
7th November 2017 South Africa has only entered the first phase of the political uncertainty that is expected to persist until at least the 2019 national elections,... →
Govt eager to get mining parties back to the table – Gigaba
25th October 2017 With the implementation of the revised – and heavily contested – Mining Charter Three postponed to December, Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba on... →
Public sector wages under the spotlight as Gigaba seeks a solution
25th October 2017 A civil service wage agreement surpassing Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation by even one point will substantially widen the current shortfall in... →
Government moves to reprioritise NDP-aligned initiatives, infrastructure spend estimate at R948m
25th October 2017 With increasing indications that South Africa, on its current path, will not achieve its National Development Plan (NDP) ambitions, government is... →
Busa backs Cosatu’s anti-corruption, anti-State capture stance
26th September 2017 Business Unity South Africa (Busa) on Tuesday backed the Congress of South African Trade Union’s (Cosatu’s) calls against State capture and... →
Despite NDP ambitions, South Africa weighed down by corruption, State capture
15th September 2017 It has been five years since the adoption of the National Development Plan (NDP), with a second commission having been appointed to drive its... →
Improving manufacturing value-add key to a more equal society
14th September 2017 The revival and expansion of the manufacturing sector could play a critical role in South Africa’s challenging battle against deepening levels of... →
South African economy in for a long trek to recovery, ANC conference key
7th September 2017 South Africa’s economic outlook remains complicated by elevated political and policy uncertainty, with the stalled economy unlikely to recover in... →
Business confidence falls to multi-decade low, but South Africa could still bounce back
6th September 2017 The South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (Sacci’s) latest Business Confidence Index (BCI) has dropped to its lowest level this year,... →
Outa lays charges against Singh
29th August 2017 The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) has taken legal aim at State-owned power utility Eskom’s suspended CFO Anoj Singh following revelations... →
South Africa to emerge from recession this year, but uncertainty remains a risk
28th August 2017 While South Africa is expected to emerge from its recession this year, the persistent policy and political uncertainty remains the nation’s... →
Seifsa, unions ink three-year wage agreement
23rd August 2017 For the first time in a decade, the metals and engineering sector has settled a three-year wage agreement without resorting to industrial action,... →
Infrastructure initiative garners support from nine African presidents
21st August 2017 Spearheaded by South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma, the Presidential Infrastructure Champion Initiative (PICI), aimed at accelerating regional... →
Zwane again firm on Charter targets as consistent with radical economic transformation
18th August 2017 As government’s plans for radical economic transformation unfold, the mining sector has become the centre of that swirling debate in light of the... →
It’s time for industry to stand up – Holland
17th August 2017 Dual-listed Gold Fields will oppose the new Mining Charter Three “with everything its got” as the mining industry stands firm in the standoff with... →
