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| Aug 16, 2026 | South Africa Is Overlooking Solar Technology That Can Keep Generating Electricity After Sunset | South Africa's coal-fired power stations are retiring. The country must replace a huge amount of electricity over the next two decades. Currently, coal still supplies 74% of the country's power. But the government's national energy plan has... |
| Jul 17, 2026 | South Africa: Government Launches R24m 4IR Training Centre in Mossel Bay | Higher Education and Training Deputy Minister, Dr Nomusa Dube-Ncube, has described the opening of a Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) Centre of Excellence and three new Centres of Specialisation in Mossel Bay as a significant step towards ... |
| Feb 5, 2026 | Signing of strategic technology supply and offtake agreement with Carester, US$20 million equity investment from the Industrial Development Corporation, and commencement of DFS for the Zandkopsdrift magnet rare earths and battery grade manganese project in South Africa | LUXEMBOURG, Feb. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Frontier Rare Earths Limited ("Frontier" or the "Company"), which is developing the Zandkopsdrift magnet rare earths and battery grade manganese project in South Africa, is please... |
| Nov 4, 2025 | Jobs and electric cars: IDC, PIC join forces for clean energy investments | The Industrial Development Corporation and the Public Investment Corporation have signed a memorandum of understanding that will see investments in the reindustrialisation of the economy and emerging industries such as the electric vehicles... |
| May 9, 2025 | Minister Dean Macpherson signs pilot MOUs with three municipalities to improve municipal infrastructure delivery | Minister Macpherson signs pilot MOUs with three municipalities to improve municipal infrastructure delivery
• The Minister of Public Works & Infrastructure, Dean Macpherson, has signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with three local ... |
| Mar 31, 2025 | IDC Aid Staves Off ArcelorMittal South Africa Steel-Mill Closure | (Bloomberg) -- ArcelorMittal SA’s South African unit will postpone the planned closure of two key steel mills by six months after a local state development-finance institution agreed to provide a 1.683 billion-rand ($91 million) facility an... |
| Mar 26, 2025 | South African Lender Weighs Taking Control of ArcelorMittal Unit | (Bloomberg) -- A South African state development bank is considering taking a majority stake in the local unit of ArcelorMittal SA as it tries to halt the planned closure of two steel mills crucial to the nation’s manufacturing sector.
The ... |
| Feb 27, 2025 | Mahindra eyes CKD assembly plant in South Africa, signs MoU with IDC | Mahindra South Africa, the local subsidiary of the Indian automative giant, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) to undertake an in-depth feasibility study on the potential establishment... |
| Feb 25, 2025 | IDC to back major South African subsea cable project | SAEx, a long-running project by a team of South Africans to build a submarine broadband cable system, has a renewed lease on life.
TechCentral has learnt exclusively that the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) has approved project dev... |
| Nov 29, 2024 | South Africa could still be a power player in EV manufacturing | Image: Dall-E
Despite years of load shedding, bouts of political unrest and government’s delay in setting a policy direction to guide the automotive sector as it moves to new energy vehicles (NEVs), South Africa remains an attractive destin... |
| Oct 10, 2024 | EV road trip: Joburg to Nieu-Bethesda – and the Colesberg crisis | Topping up to full before setting off from Johannesburg in the early hours of Thursday morning
The Pantry in Rosebank, Johannesburg was the Thursday, 3.30am meeting point for an epic, four-day, 2 200km road trip in electric cars from Johann... |
| Sep 4, 2024 | Tourism invites enterprises to apply for support under Green Tourism Incentive Programme (GTIP) | The Department of Tourism invites eligible tourism enterprises to apply for support under the Green Tourism Incentive Programme’s (GTIP) 10th application window that opened on 2 September 2024 and will remain open until 28 February 2025.
Th... |
| Oct 19, 2023 | Inside Savant’s 20 years of backing South African hardware and deeptech startups | Francois Malan, incubator CEO at investment firm Savant Capital, speaks on the firm’s investment strategy over the last 20 years, as well as the future of hardware and deeptech in South Africa.
In this episode of Ask An Investor, TechCabal ... |
| Aug 13, 2022 | Hawks employee faces fraud charges for FAKE matric certificate | A Hawks employee has been arrested for producing a fake matric certificate to secure a job. PHOTO: careersportal.co.za
An employee of the Hawks is facing charges of fraud for producing a fake matric certificate when applying for the job in ... |
| Aug 11, 2022 | South African startup DataProphet raises $10 million to scale AI solutions for manufacturers | South African AI-as-a-Service (AIaaS) startup DataProphet has announced the completion of its $10 million Series A funding round which started in 2020 with a $6 million round led by IDC and Norican.
This latest round was led by venture capi... |
| Jul 15, 2022 | Government wants young people to start their own businesses | Government wants young people to start their own businesses: Image: GCIS Vuk’uzenzele
Various government programmes offer funding and guidance to help young people start or grow their businesses.
IDC
The IDC’s Manyatsa Nkutha outlined the f... |
| Jun 11, 2021 | ICT Tenders: Government looks to digital economy | Government procurement officers are in fine spirits, resulting in a plethora of opportunities to consider and respond to this week.
The software sector scores a whopping 70 requests, followed by an equally robust 64 advertisements for the s... |
| Aug 25, 2020 | Cape Town-based tech startup secures $6-million funding | An award-winning AI manufacturing company and South African tech startup, DataProphet, has raised $6-million in funding. The innovative tech startup aims to utilise the funding to expand internationally.
The funding will be used to expand ... |
| Aug 25, 2020 | Cape Town-based tech startup secures $6-million funding | An award-winning AI manufacturing company and South African tech startup, DataProphet, has raised $6-million in funding. The innovative tech startup aims to utilise the funding to expand internationally.
The funding will be used to expand D... |
| Jun 19, 2020 | Local ICT sector may never fully recover from COVID-19 shock | The devastating impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on SA’s ICT sector is unfolding in three waves, with a full economic recovery forecast to be “highly unlikely”.
As the shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic reverberates through ... |
| Jan 11, 2020 | South Africa Has Huge ‘Green Fuels’ Potential. But it Needs to Act Now | Sasol. Theo Matthys / Shutterstock.com |
| Jan 11, 2020 | South Africa Has Huge ‘Green Fuels’ Potential. But it Needs to Act Now | Sasol. Theo Matthys / Shutterstock.com
by David Richard Walwyn and Rod Crompton
South Africa needs to seriously start thinking about shifting its energy focus. This is for two reasons.
The first is that the country’s important exports – coa... |
| Feb 11, 2019 | Everything you need to know about SA’s tech startup ecosystem [updated 2019] | Update: Are you a venture capitalist or an angel investor looking to invest in a company? Are you an entrepreneur looking for capital or other opportunities? Are you an aspiring startup owner looking for assistance? Well, you have come to t... |
| Feb 11, 2019 | Everything you need to know about SA’s tech startup ecosystem [updated 2019] | Update: Are you a venture capitalist or an angel investor looking to invest in a company? Are you an entrepreneur looking for capital or other opportunities? Are you an aspiring startup owner looking for assistance? Well, you have come to t... |
| Jan 31, 2019 | Exchange control less of an obstacle for startups than before – Simodisa report | SA tech startups and those in the country’s startup scene say the once dreaded exchange control is less of an obstacle than in previous years, startup advocacy body Simodisa revealed in a policy report released today.
Yet while 27% of the ... |
| Jan 31, 2019 | Exchange control less of an obstacle for startups than before – Simodisa report | SA tech startups and those in the country’s startup scene say the once dreaded exchange control is less of an obstacle than in previous years, startup advocacy body Simodisa revealed in a policy report released today.
Yet while 27% of the 2... |
| Nov 28, 2018 | Wipro boosts ICT access for ECape school | Wipro provided 20 desktop computers and a few television screens at a school in the Eastern Cape.
IT outsourcing firm, Wipro has joined forces with Adopt-a-School Foundation, the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), and the Nelson Mand... |
| Aug 20, 2018 | These Joburg entrepreneurs have defied the odds by creating truly South African dolls with realistic natural hair - and they are selling out everywhere | A couple of years ago, Khulile Vilakazi-Ofosu’s then two-year old daughter came home and demanded flowy hair like her friends at creche.
"I told her that no matter what we do to her hair, it will never be as ‘flowy’." To drive the... |
| Apr 19, 2018 | Getting state support ‘waste of time, energy’ for biotech entrepreneur | Getting the government to back her biotech startup that produces an essential ingredient for HIV test kits has proved frustrating and often a “waste of time and energy”, says SA biotech entrepreneur Jenny Leslie.
Leslie claims that her Cape... |
| Apr 19, 2018 | Getting state support ‘waste of time, energy’ for biotech entrepreneur | Getting the government to back her biotech startup that produces an essential ingredient for HIV test kits has proved frustrating and often a “waste of time and energy”, says SA biotech entrepreneur Jenny Leslie.
Leslie claims that her Cap... |
| Jan 12, 2018 | Joburg duo to take on big boys in calcium carbonate sector with IDC VC funding | Entrepreneurs Zane Abrahams and Mark Anthony Appollos are taking on the big boys. The two plan to give an established calcium carbonate player a run for its money by setting up a R250-million plant in Richards Bay, following a recent ventur... |
| Jan 12, 2018 | Joburg duo to take on big boys in calcium carbonate sector with IDC VC funding | Entrepreneurs Zane Abrahams and Mark Anthony Appollos are taking on the big boys. The two plan to give an established calcium carbonate player a run for its money by setting up a R250-million plant in Richards Bay, following a recent ventur... |
| Jan 5, 2018 | Funding your startup: Ventureburn lists the SA investors delivering [2019 update] | For entrepreneurs wanting to find early-stage funding, this is the article for you. As there is generally a veil of secrecy surrounding funding and startups, there is often smoke and mirrors in the industry, with many claiming to be “invest... |
| Jan 5, 2018 | Funding your startup: Ventureburn lists the SA investors delivering [2019 update] | For entrepreneurs wanting to find early-stage funding, this is the article for you. As there is generally a veil of secrecy surrounding funding and startups, there is often smoke and mirrors in the industry, with many claiming to be “invest... |
| Jul 26, 2017 | Fewer than one in five SA entrepreneurs applied for finance in last year – survey | Ask any business owner what their top need is and they’ll say — “finance”. Yet fewer than one in five entrepreneurs applied for finance from banks or other funding institutions in the last year, a survey released today revealed.
The survey,... |
| Jul 26, 2017 | Fewer than one in five SA entrepreneurs applied for finance in last year – survey | Ask any business owner what their top need is and they’ll say — “finance”. Yet fewer than one in five entrepreneurs applied for finance from banks or other funding institutions in the last year, a survey released today revealed.
The survey... |
| Jun 14, 2017 | Start-Up Nations SA helping spread best practices in SA, claims co-ordinator | Three years after the launch of Start-Up Nations South Africa by the Minister of Small Business Development Lindiwe Zulu in November 2014, Ventureburn has questioned what the role of the initiative — which works mostly behind the scenes — r... |
| Jun 14, 2017 | Start-Up Nations SA helping spread best practices in SA, claims co-ordinator | Three years after the launch of Start-Up Nations South Africa by the Minister of Small Business Development Lindiwe Zulu in November 2014, Ventureburn has questioned what the role of the initiative — which works mostly behind the scenes — r... |
| May 29, 2017 | Unpacking South Africa’s tech startup and scaleup investor landscape | Getting access to the right seed and growth finance is critical to the success of most emerging technology companies. But finding the right investor can be a daunting task for any founding team.
You have to deal with different mandates, big... |
| May 29, 2017 | Unpacking South Africa’s tech startup and scaleup investor landscape | Getting access to the right seed and growth finance is critical to the success of most emerging technology companies. But finding the right investor can be a daunting task for any founding team.
You have to deal with different mandates, bi... |
| Aug 24, 2015 | Is state VC funding becoming the name of the game? | The Indian government this week launched a much awaited venture capital (VC) fund. Dubbed the India Aspiration Fund, the 20 billion rupee fund (US$306-million) will operate as a fund-of-funds administered by the Small Industries Development... |
| Aug 24, 2015 | Is state VC funding becoming the name of the game? | The Indian government this week launched a much awaited venture capital (VC) fund. Dubbed the India Aspiration Fund, the 20 billion rupee fund (US$306-million) will operate as a fund-of-funds administered by the Small Industries Development... |
| Aug 4, 2014 | SA mobile PoS Nomanini scores R4.8-million to help scale internationally | Operating across Southern Africa and other emerging markets, the Cape Town, South Africa based mobile Point-of-Sale (PoS) startup Nomanini has just received an investment of R4.8-million from the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC).
No... |
| Aug 4, 2014 | SA mobile PoS Nomanini scores R4.8-million to help scale internationally | Operating across Southern Africa and other emerging markets, the Cape Town, South Africa based mobile Point-of-Sale (PoS) startup Nomanini has just received an investment of R4.8-million from the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC).
N... |
| Mar 29, 2012 | IDC invests R3.24bn in platinum joint venture | Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) announced investment of up to R3.24bn in a new platinum joint venture with private equity firm, Pallinghurst Resources and the Bakgatla-Ba-Kgafela community.
The state-owned investment agency stated ... |
| South Africa’s youth are a top priority | South Africa’s youth are a top priority: Image: GCIS Vuk’uzenzele
For more information about the PES, visit www.stateofthenation.gov.za/employment-stimulus-dashboard. National Youth Development Agency
The National Youth Development Agency a... |
