Lumkile Nkomfe

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Lumkile Nkomfe

Lumkile Nkomfe is a Creamer Media Reporter for Engineering News and Mining Weekly.

Newly launched Chapter Zero Southern Africa aims to tackle looming climate emergency

28th July 2023 Business leaders have joined forces to launch Chapter Zero Southern Africa, a community of eminent board chairpersons and senior directors to lead and engage in boardroom discussions to ensure that fossil carbon emissions are halved by 2030. This initiative was developed in collaboration with... →

NCOP chair appeals for stronger interventions across Africa to tackle climate change

21st July 2023 National Council of Provinces chairperson Amos Masondo has urged for stronger and more sustainable interventions across all spheres of government and society to halt and reverse the harmful effects of climate change. Over 60 legislatures, inclusive of sub-national structures, are attending the... →

Zikalala moves for prosecution, blacklisting of fraudulent contractors

9th June 2023 Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Sihle Zikalala has issued a severe warning to construction companies and developers who siphon government funds and abandon construction projects without the adequate completion. He recently visited the Free State and noted the incompletion of a... →

Public Works and infrastructure Minister Sihle Zikalala.

SAFCEI critical of govt’s new nuclear procurement plans

26th May 2023 Multifaith environmental justice organisation, South African Faith Communities Environment Institute, has decried the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy’s plans to procure more nuclear power as a step in the wrong direction. The organisation has cited the long build times and lengthy... →

Numsa condemns Gordhan’s appeal against loadshedding exemption

11th May 2023 The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa has criticised Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan for his decision to appeal the High Court judgment which orders public schools, healthcare facilities and police stations to be exempt from loadshedding. Further, the judgment directed... →

Impending power, water cuts threaten businesses owing CoJ

10th May 2023 Businesses in the City of Johannesburg (CoJ) have been alerted to the possibility of having their electricity or water disconnected, owing to the sizable monetary debt owed to the municipality. The City has decried the “millions of rands” owed to it by businesses. →

Concerns as Eskom granted exemption from declaring irregular expenditure

3rd April 2023 Following a special government gazette, issued on Friday, exempting Eskom from declaring its ‘irregular, fruitless and wasteful’ expenditure, opposition parties have expressed their distress over the move, as they believe this will enable the power utility to hide its underlying malfeasance. The... →

Cape Town to interdict EFF’s national shutdown

14th March 2023 City of Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis and Western Cape Premier Alan Winde have voiced their concerns over the Economic Freedom Fighters’ planned national shutdown set to take place on March 20. The EFF announced that it will protest continuing loadshedding and it will call for President... →

Western Cape Premier Alan Winde and Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis

Gauteng to host fifteenth BRICS Summit

3rd March 2023 Gauteng will play host to the fifteenth BRICS Summit in August, under the theme ‘BRICS and Africa: Partnership For Mutually Accelerated Growth, Sustainable Development, and Inclusive Multilateralism’. This was confirmed by Minister in the Presidency Mondli Gungubele. →

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