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May 27 2012 11:21
There's a price war raging between South Africa's cellphone networks after Cell C lowered the rates of its prepaid calls by more than 34%.
May 28 2012 07:53
The City of Cape Town has spent R175m running the Myciti bus service since the Soccer World Cup compared to an income of R35m, a report says.
May 27 2012 13:09
The oversupply of golf estates has claimed another victim.
Johannesburg - The Exxaro coal group plans to erect a 200MW concentrated solar power plant near its coal mines at Lephalale in Limpopo.
This is according to Exxaro manager for growth and energy Thomas Garner, who spoke at the international solar power conference, Solar World 2009, on Wednesday.
Exxaro is also conducting a viability study for a 100MW wind farm on the site of its Namakwa Sands operations at Brand se Baai on the West Coast.
Barry MacColl, technology and strategy manager at Eskom's sustainability unit, told the conference the R30bn his division had budgeted for building pilot solar power projects over the next 10 years had been included in the tariff application Eskom submitted to the National Energy Regulator of South Africa.
The power utility aims to build 650MW of concentrated solar power capacity between 2019 and 2022.
- Sake24.com
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