State

Tender work arising from state contracts

STATE

Tender work arising from state contracts

R30m EC granite operation to boost local industry

The Eastern Cape Development Corporation (ECDC) has appointed a competent person to develop a final business case for the financing of a R30-million granite mining and processing project in the Butterworth area, in the Eastern Cape, which is...

Company Announcement: Restoration of historic school ignites pride and improved learning

R1.5 million investment part of broader provincial development plan

First blast at new Kalahari manganese mining project

The first blast took place on Tuesday at the new R1.5-billion Kudumane manganese mining project near Hotazel in the Northern Cape. Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu conducted the official opening of what is the fourth new black-controlled...

Training specialist provides mining qualification

Education training specialist Triple E Training will, in the next few weeks, start offering employees at selected mines a National Qualifications Framework (NQF) Level 1 General Education and Training Certificate: Mining and Minerals Processes...

More public-sector developments needed to unlock projects

The consulting engineering industry in South Africa is reasonably stable, although not really in a growth phase as the infrastructure flow from government has been lacking, states industry body Consulting Engineers South Africa (Cesa) CEO Graham...

STATE MISCELLANEOUS

Tenders arising from a range public sector sectors

Exxaro pursuing coal-fired project independently of Cennergi

Mining group Exxaro has confirmed that its coal-based Thabametsi independent power producer (IPP) project has been excluded from its new energy joint venture (JV) with Tata Power, dubbed Cennergi, but that it remains keen to move ahead with the...

New Ngqura manganese terminal to lift capacity, says Transnet unit

South African port operator Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) has again confirmed that it will relocate the current export manganese facility from Port Elizabeth to a new two-berth facility at the Port of Ngqura by 2015/16, which it says will also...

State capitalism: Is it a rival to market capitalism?

Since the start of the current global economic crisis in 2008, there has been renewed interest in the concept of ‘State capitalism’, as distinct from ‘market capitalism’. (The term ‘liberal capitalism’ is shorthand for ‘liberal...

Is it a rival to market capitalism? And how does it affect the natural resources industries?

Since the start of the current global economic crisis in 2008, there has been renewed interest on the concept of “state capitalism” as distinct from “market capitalism”.