With coal reserves dwindling, nuclear power is an option for the future and government is considering more Koeberg-type plants

President Thabo Mbeki says South Africa's first Regional Electricity Distributors will be ready to operate by June 2005.

South Africa's civil engineering sector, hit by a slump in revenues as contracts fall, could shed thousands of jobs this year, a key industry official warned yesterday.

Twin tasks arise out of the takeover of Pechiney by Canada's Alcan group, which is now calling the shots THE planned $1,2bn aluminium smelter project at Coega in Eastern Cape will have to pass two major hurdles if it is to be saved, it emerged at the weekend.

South Africa would pay more for Cahora Bassa hydropower if a new tariff scheme came into effect

Outgoing electricity control body flexed its power in showdown with Eskom

The trade and industry department has confirmed that that minister Alec Erwin met representatives from Alcan and Pechiney, who visited SA last week, to assess the merits of Pechiney's proposed $2,2bn aluminium smelter at Coega.

Alcan comments on the proposed investments

The water affairs and forestry department had approved an above-inflation tariff increase of 6,1% for the bulk raw water supplied out of the Vaal River, the ministry said yesterday.

Government and several parastatals made their biggest sales pitch yet last week when they met representatives of Canadian aluminium group Alcan in an effort to sell SA as the destination for a 2,2bn aluminium smelter at Coega in Eastern Cape.