South Africa’s mining sector lost momentum in the three months from May to July 2026. The index measuring the total output of South Africa’s mining sector dropped by 5.5% in the three-month period... 

The balance of South Africa's new energy vehicle market is shifting rapidly, with plug-in hybrids reaching a new milestone in the second quarter of 2026.  

Eskom sold a record-low amount of gigawatt-hours of electricity in 2025/26, even though it made a profit of R30.3-billion, largely thanks to rising electricity tariffs. 

South Africa isn’t shipping dramatically more coal since the US and Israel attacked Iran in late February, but it’s earning a lot more from what it already exports overseas, customs data shows. 

A spike in credit providers and no measurable increase in debt counsellors might be a cause for concern because more South Africans than ever are struggling with debt.  

The Eastern Cape has the highest unemployment rate of all South Africa's provinces at 47.5%, 13.9 percentage points above the national rate of 33.6%. This is according to Statistics South Africa's... 

Cape Town’s planning tribunal earlier this month gave the first green light to two enormous data centres near the airport, in King Air Industria – a combined 120 000 m² (about 14 rugby fields),... 

People in their early 30s are not buying as many homes as they used to in South Africa, according to data from Lightstone Property. Between 2005 and 2025, the number of people 35 and younger... 

South Africa's diamond mines have lost over 7 000 jobs in the past decade. It’s a 38% drop, according to figures from Minerals Council South Africa. The culprit? Lab-grown diamonds.  

South Africa’s National Treasury declared it would temporarily withhold funding to 69 municipalities to force them to fix their problems, which include unfunded budgets, irregular and wasteful... 

In the first five months of 2026, 4.8-million tourists arrived in South Africa. It is the highest number for this period since at least 2018, which suggests 2026 could be a bumper tourism year for... 

The Department of Higher Education and Training has university performance targets for qualifications; five of them involve science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects; the sixth is... 

South Africa’s Witwatersrand gold basin dominates the list of the world’s deepest mines, claiming seven of the ten spots. Chasing ever-thinner reef seams buried beneath ancient rock, South African... 

The capacity of rooftop solar in South Africa has passed 8.3GW, according to Eskom's National Transmission Company. The steepest growth came during peak loadshedding in 2022 and 2023, but even... 

Egypt generated more electricity than South Africa in 2025. South Africa has held the number one spot on the continent since at least 2015, according to Ember’s Global Electricity Review 2026. 

The standard unemployment rate in South Africa is calculated using only people actively seeking work. A more interesting picture comes from the employment-to-population ratio (aka the labour... 

South Africa loses between R150-billion and R300-billion a year because ageing infrastructure, theft, and vandalism have left 16% of iron-ore, 12% of coal, and 24% of other export mining products... 

Private power projects registered with Nersa are inching closer to 20 GW, according to the latest information released by Nersa on May 13, 2026. In the first four months of 2026 alone, 132 new... 

In the first quarter of 2026, South Africa’s unemployment rate rose to 32.7% from 31.4% in Q4 of 2025, according to data from Statistics South Africa. 

South Africans woke up to record-high fuel prices on May 6, 2026. A litre of diesel (50ppm) costs R31.38. It is the first time ever the price has gone over R30. A litre of 95 Octane in Gauteng... 

While 82.1% of South Africans have access to the internet in some form, data from the State of the ICT Sector 2026 Report, put out by ICASA, shows that internet usage is heavily dominated by mobile... 

South Africa’s diesel price is set for another painful increase in May, driven by the ongoing US-Israel war against Iran and its knock-on effect on global oil markets. 

Eskom’s Energy Availability Factor (EAF), the percentage of time its plants are available to generate electricity, tells a sobering story. From a healthy 87.5% in 2006/07, availability dropped... 

Japan’s Toyota dominated South Africa’s hybrid market in 2024, accounting for three out of every four hybrid vehicles sold. A year later, Chinese competitors are starting to chip away at that... 

Both transport and construction have shed roughly 5% to 6% of their workers since December 2018, while mining has bucked the trend. It grew modestly from 453 000 to 472 000 workers over the same... 

Municipalities owed Eskom R110.5-billion by December 2025 for electricity supplied. It’s a 17% increase from R94.6-billion at the end of March 2025. 

South Africa’s national energy regulator says investment in private power generation is now in the hundreds of billions of rands. The close to 600 new projects registered with Nersa in 2025 is the... 

South Africa reported its best economic growth in three years in 2025, but 1.1% is not nearly good enough. It falls short of the National Treasury's predictions of 1.4%. It also lags well behind... 

Komati is the first of Eskom’s coal stations to stop operating. Eskom’s plans to repower and repurpose Komati include a solar facility and battery storage. There is also a trade school, an...