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South African antitrust body faults grocers over high food costs 
By: Bloomberg 8th October 2024 South African food producers and retailers have been slow to pass on the effects of declining cost pressures to cash-strapped consumers, an issue... →
Distribution deadlock
By: Terence Creamer 27th September 2024 Few would disagree that the current financial and operational model for electricity distribution is no longer fit for purpose. This lack of... →
Indian billionaire Adani is eyeing Kenya’s main airport, and the govt is backing the deal. But are the official talking points factual?
By: Africa Check 20th September 2024 On 11 September 2024, Kenya's main Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, or JKIA, was grounded for a day as aviation workers went on strike. The... →
Hope beyond hype?
By: Terence Creamer 20th September 2024 The current scepticism surrounding the prospects for green hydrogen in South Africa and globally is only natural. A gap was inevitably going to... →
Square peg
By: Terence Creamer 13th September 2024 The haste at which the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) is moving to remedy the embarrassment of having to withdraw the... →
DMRE moving with pace on nuclear determination amid mounting technoeconomic questions
By: Terence Creamer 4th September 2024 South Africa’s Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) expects to finalise nuclear-procurement consultations in the coming two to three... →
Northam Platinum enters into 180 MW solar farm agreement at energy-intensive mine
By: Martin Creamer 30th August 2024 Platinum group metals (PGMs) and chrome producer Northam has entered into a power purchase agreement with an independent power producer for an 180... →
Remedy required 
By: Terence Creamer 30th August 2024 Given the grid-related uncertainties that have overshadowed Bid Window Seven (BW7) of the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement... →
