Natasha Odendaal
Natasha Odendaal is Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor for Engineering News and Mining Weekly.
Water woes prompt Nomura to lower GDP forecast
3rd November 2015 Nomura has downgraded its forecast for South Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth as weather-related phenomena and structural deficiencies... →
Govt needs to embrace ICT – Radebe
2nd November 2015 Government departments that do not embrace information and communication technology (ICT) applications in the delivery of public services will fail... →
Gauteng aims to set ICT-based service delivery bar
2nd November 2015 Gauteng wants to be the province that breaks ground and becomes the catalyst in leveraging information and communication technology (ICT) in the... →
S Africa still characterised by two economies – Zulu
30th October 2015 South Africa remained divided into two economies and, a year after its establishment, the Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) was... →
Q3 unemployment rate ticks up to 25.5%, youth most marginalised
27th October 2015 As South Africa’s unemployment rate for the three months to September 30 inched up to 25.5%, the youth remained on the sidelines of the country’s... →
Africa needs to take developmental stance to combat terrorism
22nd October 2015 While Africa may not be the “global frontier” for terrorism, there are many red flags warning of the potential negative impacts that could sweep... →
Africa’s anticorruption battle set to be a long, hard road
22nd October 2015 Fighting the unabating rise of fraud and corruption across Africa is going to be a “long, hard and tough” battle that will likely worsen before... →
Outa slams Sanral’s bid to seek Parliament’s approval for withholding of licences
19th October 2015 The Opposition To Urban Tolling Alliance (Outa) has called on Parliament to reject the South African National Road Agency Limited’s (Sanral’s) bid... →
Telkom commits to broadband transformation
14th October 2015 With the digital age continuing to present challenges and opportunities, telecommunications giant Telkom on Wednesday reiterated its determination... →
Amplats unveils first cogen clean energy power plant for Rustenburg smelter
28th September 2015 Platinum producer Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) on Monday unveiled a new R150-million “revolutionary” 5 MW cogeneration plant at its Waterval... →
Zendai to break ground on first residential development
22nd September 2015 Hong Kong-listed Shanghai Zendai is set to break ground on its first luxury residential development in South Africa as part of its wider long-term... →
Nigeria scores ahead of S Africa in new prospects indicator
16th September 2015 A new quarterly investment insights indicator has ranked South Africa last of selected sub-Saharan African countries in an evaluation of overall... →
Numsa to lead mass march against corruption
15th September 2015 Labour union, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) plans to, later this month, mobilise labour and about 230 civil society... →
Lack of long-term financing choking emerging economies – World Bank
14th September 2015 As advanced economies continue to dominate the use of scarce long-term funding, emerging and developing countries are struggling to mobilise the... →
ICT sector urged to rethink energy use in power-constrained economies
8th September 2015 The global information and communication technology (ICT) sector consumed around 109 GW of electricity in 2013 – representing about 6% of the... →
Pandor calls for greater ICT research, development investment
8th September 2015 More investment is needed in research and development (R&D) activities in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector to tackle five... →
Telkom targets one-million fibre connections by 2018
7th September 2015 Fixed-line operator Telkom plans to take its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) connections to one-million homes by March 2018, CEO Sipho Maseko said on... →
ICT Policy White Paper to be published before financial year-end, Minister assures
7th September 2015 The Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services (DTPS) is slowly edging towards the completion of the White Paper meant to revitalise and... →
DEA starts consultations for e-waste strategy
4th September 2015 The rapid rise of electronic and electrical technology – and the shortening lifecycles of the products – is leaving a mass of dangerous and harmful... →
Gauteng province unpacks e-governance plans
3rd September 2015 The Gauteng provincial government’s (GPG’s) plans to transform South Africa’s most populous province into an integrated city region were gaining... →
Public, private sectors must partner for successful ICT roll-out in Africa
2nd September 2015 It is increasingly widely accepted that deploying information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure will bring about a surge in... →
Africa’s aviation infrastructure to improve in next 30 years
2nd September 2015 Africa’s aviation infrastructure has not kept pace with traffic demand, with extensive deterioration seen in infrastructure that is now in dire... →
Gas emerges as key focus area for DoE in immediate future
31st August 2015 There are indications that South Africa’s much neglected gas industry may start seeing renewed activity, as Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson... →
Matona joins planning department
28th August 2015 Cabinet has appointed former Eskom CE and Public Enterprises director-general Tshediso Matona as Secretary for National Planning in the Department... →
S Africa’s renewables programme the basis of green economy
27th August 2015 South Africa’s successful Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP) has not only brought in hundreds of billions... →
Sars’ customs legislation overhaul to be rolled out in phases
25th August 2015 The South African Revenue Service (Sars) plans to unpack a number of new Acts that will change the landscape of the customs framework, and will... →
Seta grant regulations declared invalid
24th August 2015 The sector education and training authority (Seta) has six months to revert to the previously legislated skills funding regime after certain... →
Sentech to go live with final two DTT sites in March
24th August 2015 The final two sites to transmit the broadcasting frequencies of South Africa’s digital terrestrial television (DTT) platform will go live in March.... →
Acting CEO stresses PRASA remains on track
21st August 2015 With continued controversy besetting the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA), acting CEO Nathi Khena on Friday assured stakeholders that... →
Greenpeace calls for release of nuclear deal data
18th August 2015 Greenpeace Africa has demanded that Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson make publicly available all the key documents and plans surrounding... →
DoC unpacks digital migration progress to portfolio committee
14th August 2015 South Africa’s Northern Cape will become the first province to transition from analogue to digital broadcasting as the Department of Communications... →
NCC launches full-scale investigation into network service providers
14th August 2015 The National Consumer Commission (NCC) will spend the next 12 months unpacking claims that certain mobile network service providers were proposing... →
Tax committee not in favour of mining tax overhaul
13th August 2015 The Davis Tax Committee’s (DTC’s) first interim report on mining tax has come out against a full overhaul of the current tax regime imposed on... →
June manufacturing dips 0.4% y/y
11th August 2015 South Africa’s manufacturing sector dipped into a recession in the second quarter of the year as production contracted by 0.4% year-on-year in... →
DA supports move to place telecoms department under microscope
4th August 2015 The Democratic Alliance (DA) has come out in support of an independent inquiry into the management of the Department of Telecommunications and... →
Thousands of Telkom employees accept voluntary retrenchments
31st July 2015 The mass exit of thousands of Telkom employees came as no surprise, trade union Solidarity said this week. Nearly 2 400 employees had opted for... →
Africa’s universities have critical role to play in African Agenda
31st July 2015 Africa’s universities and scholars need to take centre stage in the ‘Africa Rising’ narrative, embracing an important role in the development of... →
Phakisa mining lab gets Cabinet nod
30th July 2015 Plans to set up the first four-week Operation Phakisa ‘mining laboratory’ to identify and resolve the challenges plaguing South Africa’s mining... →
S African unemployment rate drops to 25%
29th July 2015 Unemployment in South Africa has decreased a notch as the public and informal sector supported more job creation in the second quarter of the year,... →
African cities highlighted as cities of opportunity, but Joburg will fall short
28th July 2015 The emerging social order will see Africa build its megacities; however, South Africa’s economic powerhouse, Johannesburg, would likely fall to the... →
Pick n Pay to create jobs, cut energy use and slash waste in new ambitious programme
27th July 2015 Supermarket chain Pick n Pay has vowed to create 20 jobs every day through a new 20, 20, 20 by 2020 programme that would also see the firm... →
