Schalk Burger
Schalk Burger is Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor for Engineering News and Mining Weekly.
More people influencing global development discourse
8th February 2023 Through greater access to information, owing to the ubiquity of digital devices, more parts of society, globally, are being empowered to contribute... →
Joburg mayor Amad appoints new MMCs
3rd February 2023 City of Johannesburg mayor Thapelo Amad has appointed eight members to the mayoral committee after extensive consultations with other political... →
TVET registrations decrease, female applicants dominate
25th January 2023 There were fewer registrations for Ministerial-approved programmes at technical and vocational education and training (TVET) colleges for the 2023... →
City of Cape Town to pay businesses, residents cash for electricity
24th January 2023 The National Treasury has granted the City of Cape Town an exemption from competitive bidding or tendering processes for the buying of electricity... →
Solidarity starts legal action against Nersa to remove private generation bottlenecks
19th January 2023 Trade union Solidarity has served legal papers on the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) to remove all bottlenecks standing in the... →
Public service professionalisation framework aimed at resolving various challenges
18th January 2023 The National Framework towards Professionalisation of the Public Sector, adopted by Cabinet in October, is aimed at resolving the many challenges... →
South Africa should ensure WEF discussions reinforce COP27 energy transition plan – BLSA
16th January 2023 South Africa should ensure the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting conversation in Davos, Switzerland, this week reinforces the country’s... →
Loadshedding the biggest local headwind, job creation becomes elusive – Seifsa
12th January 2023 Loadshedding remains the biggest local headwind facing the metals and engineering industries, and persistent loadshedding, the worst in more than... →
South Africa needs govt to play its role in getting the country working – BLSA
5th December 2022 Government plays an enormous role in delivering supportive policy, institutions that operate efficiently and with integrity and, above all, a... →
Wits planetarium to be transformed into a multidisciplinary digital hub
22nd November 2022 The planetarium at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), which is 62 years old this year, is being modernised into a fully fledged... →
Transnet lifts force majeure for some terminals, but not its container terminals
21st October 2022 State-owned Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) has lifted the force majeure declared in the automotive, bulk and multi-purpose terminals with immediate... →
AfDB approves $75m facility to enhance African trade financing
14th October 2022 Development finance institution the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved an unfunded $75-million trade finance Risk Participation Agreement... →
Irregular SoE expenditure highlights need to improve public procurement – Kearney
6th October 2022 The increase in State-owned enterprises’ (SoEs’) irregular expenditure from R61-billion in 2017 to R167-billion in 2021 highlights the need to... →
Transnet tables new wage offer, applies to CCMA for conciliation
4th October 2022 State-owned Transnet has applied to the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) to convene conciliation discussions regarding... →
FATF greylisting provides impetus to get South Africa's commercial crime-fighting system up to scratch – BLSA
3rd October 2022 The work being done to reduce the chance that South Africa will be greylisted by global anti-money laundering and terrorist financing body the... →
EIUG, SAPVIA, Busa welcome appointment of new Eskom board with balanced skills
3rd October 2022 Industry nonprofit the Energy Intensive Users Group (EIUG) welcomes the "overdue reconstitution of the Eskom board" and says "the new board seems... →
Sacci calls for independent commission to select, recruit SOE board members, CEOs
29th September 2022 Business organisation the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) says changes to power utility Eskom's board of directors should... →
Urgent actions needed to deal with energy crisis, says Busa
22nd September 2022 Business organisation Business Unity South Africa (Busa) is urging government to urgently implement identified priority interventions, as the... →
Eskom invites experts to join skills crowdsourcing platform
16th September 2022 State-owned power utility Eskom is developing a crowdsourcing digital platform to allow it to supplement its existing skills base to help address... →
Eskom says bulk supply restored to disaster-stricken Jagersfontein
14th September 2022 State-owned power utility Eskom says bulk electricity supply to Jagersfontein, in the Free State, was restored at 04:25 on September 14. Eskom... →
Increasing taxes the only viable option to fund a basic income grant, research shows
22nd July 2022 Of the three options available to fund a basic income grant (BIG) – cutting expenditure, issuing more debt or raising taxes – raising taxes is the... →
AfDB fund approves $11m grant for AfCFTA secretariat
18th July 2022 Development finance institution the African Development Bank's (AfDB's) African Development Fund approved an $11.02-million support package to the... →
Africa needs all hands on deck to meet 2030 energy goals
15th July 2022 To achieve universal energy access by 2030, Africa will need a range of technologies and policy changes that open national grids to private... →
Zimbabwe emergency power project nears completion
12th July 2022 An emergency power infrastructure rehabilitation project has reached the last leg of implementation with the delivery of a 175 MVA transformer,... →
Africa making progress in building tax transparency, tackling illicit financial flows
22nd June 2022 Development finance institution the African Development Bank (AfDB) says African countries’ requests for information for tax collection purposes... →
Lamola proposes whole of society approach to combat crime, inequality in South Africa
6th June 2022 Through the compact between business, labour, civil society and government, South Africa is able to, and must, respond with collective hands to... →
Agri SA proposes diesel rebate scheme increase to buffer food prices from fuel hike
31st May 2022 A targeted intervention to increase the diesel rebate to the agricultural sector would buffer the cost pressures that impact food prices, while... →
Mavuso says South Africa winning expenditure, investment-ratings battles
30th May 2022 A global recession poses immense risks to South Africa's economy and the country will need to be in strong fighting shape. The recession that... →
Study highlights potential export markets for South African, SADC products
27th May 2022 A study, undertaken as part of the European Union (EU) and Southern African Customs Union (SACU) Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) on trade in... →
Developing countries have opportunity to call for greater access to nuclear energy, technology
17th May 2022 States that do not have nuclear weapons, which include most developing countries, have an opportunity to demand greater access to nuclear sciences... →
South Africa must acknowledge working class and poor are suffering – Ramaphosa
3rd May 2022 In his latest weekly newsletter, published on May 3, President Cyril Ramaphosa said the workers at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium, who heckled him off... →
G4S calls for national meeting as cash-in-transit guard is murdered
26th April 2022 Security services company G4S has called on Police Minister Bheki Cele to convene an urgent meeting with all stakeholders to address the continuing... →
UFS confers honorary doctorates on Moseneke, Davis, Sachs, Byanyima and Wingfield
19th April 2022 The University of the Free State (UFS) will confer honorary doctorates on former deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke, Professor Mike Wingfield,... →
Stage 2 load-shedding to resume at 17:00
12th April 2022 State-owned power utility Eskom said that Stage 2 load-shedding will resume at 17:00 on April 12 and will again be suspended at 05:00 on April 13... →
Mixed reactions to lifting of Covid-19 state of disaster, lingering regulations
5th April 2022 Business organisation Business Unity South Africa (Busa) has welcomed the repeal of the National State of Disaster regulations and calls for all... →
Anti-money laundering task force contributing to local, international arrests for poaching
25th March 2022 Public-private partnership the South African Anti-Money Laundering Integrated Task Force's (Samlit's) platform has facilitated information sharing... →
World Bank issues $150m bond to help South Africa conserve endangered wildlife
24th March 2022 The World Bank, through its International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), has issued a five-year, $150-million Wildlife... →
IRR says Employment Equity Amendment Bill will push unemployment higher
18th March 2022 The Employment Equity Amendment Bill, if implemented, will damage any chances of the country attaining meaningful growth and unemployment will rise... →
Economic reform critical for sustainable growth path – Seifsa
9th March 2022 South Africa's lacklustre approach to implementing the economic reform programmes necessary to turn the economy around is one of the reasons the... →
Stellenbosch University's epidemic response centre receives MIT recognition
4th March 2022 The Stellenbosch University (SU) Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI) received international acclaim when its work on identifying and... →
Mavuso praises govt's focus on enabling business to grow employment, do more business
28th February 2022 There has been a positive shift in the government’s view on what is necessary to solve South Africa's economic challenges and key issues often... →
