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SA: Bantu Holomisa: Address by Deputy Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, at the Defence Ministers’ Conclave, Aerospace India (10/02/2025)
14th February 2025 Today, I must take this moment, in this distinguished forum, to express our deepest gratitude. The officers you trained gained invaluable... →
SA: Cyril Ramaphosa: Address by South Africa's President, Reply to the debate on the State of The Nation Address, Cape Town City Hall (13/02/2025)
14th February 2025 This debate illustrated the dangers of retreating to corners, isolating ourselves in ideological, cultural, racial and linguistic enclaves and... →
South Africa’s Hillside Aluminium continuing to go all out to decarbonise – South32 
By: Martin Creamer 13th February 2025 While ‘high-carbon’ is the value-lowering label being put on aluminium from South Africa’s Hillside Aluminium in KwaZulu-Natal, the Sydney-,... →
Donald Trump’s war on global governance: lessons from the past on how to fight back
13th February 2025 US president Donald Trump’s recent actions seem designed to reassert American power and demonstrate that it is still the dominant global power and... →
Sustainable economic growth in South Africa will come from renewables, not coal: what our model shows
13th February 2025 Coal fired power stations produce 85% of South Africa’s electricity, making the country the biggest producer of harmful greenhouse-gas emissions in... →
South Africa’s G20 presidency faces mounting pressure
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 13th February 2025 The challenge isn’t just defending Africa’s interests but managing a G20 in which one of its most powerful members is actively disengaged. When... →
Nigeria’s schoolchildren again targeted in mass abductions
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 13th February 2025 Driven initially by extremist ideology, the kidnappings have become ransom-seeking operations by cross-border criminal groups. Since Boko Haram’s... →
Soon to be launched grid-funding instrument can be private participation template for all SoEs – Ramokgopa

By: Terence Creamer 13th February 2025 Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa says the private sector participation framework being developed for the transmission... →