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... 

South Africa’s wine exports increased to $669-million in 2025, an increase of $21.5-million on 2024, but still $25-million short of 2022. The UK is the biggest export market for South Africa’s wine... 

Sales of plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) nearly quadrupled in South Africa in 2025. The number of vehicles sold jumped from 738 units in 2024 to 2 810. Unlike traditional hybrids, which rely entirely on... 

Eskom’s power stations have started off 2026 on a high. The percentage of generating capacity that is available to provide electricity to the grid – or the energy availability factor (EAF) – is the... 

In 2025, South Africa exported 412 510 passenger and light commercial vehicles. It’s 7% more than in 2019. Exports continue to dominate the sector: for every ten vehicles produced in South Africa... 

Chinese solar panel exports to South Africa shot up in 2023. And even though national loadshedding effectively ended early in 2024, the demand for solar panels has remained high. In 2025 alone,... 

Renewable energy’s contribution to South Africa’s yearly generation has not grown since 2023, according to data from Eskom’s National Transmission Company of South Africa.