Business Day - 5 February 2024 by Peter Attard Montalto

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Newcastillian News - 7 February 2024  by Quinton Boucher

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South African Government - 7 February 2024 Media Statement 

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TimesLive - 7 February 2024 by Bobby Jordan (Senior Reporter)

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Business Day - 7 February 2024 by Ernest Mabuza

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Africa Check - 8 February 2024

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News24 - 11 February 2024 by Lameez Omarjee

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Business Day - 13 February 2024 by Neva Makgetla (TIPS Senior Economist)

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TIPS industry studies aim to provide a comprehensive overview of key trends in leading industries in South Africa. For each industry covered, working papers will be published on basic economic trends, including value added, employment, investment and market structure; trade by major product and country; impact on the environment as…

The European Green Deal (EGD) is a set of policy initiatives by the European Union (EU) with the overarching aim of making Europe the first continent to reach climate neutrality by 2050. The purpose of this study is to analyse the implications of the EGD on African trade. The objectives include…

The TIPS Development Dialogue on the transition to electric vehicles was on 5 February. Information about the dialogue and speakers, as well as a video recording and copies of the presentations are available here.   

In the face of rising electricity costs, persistent power outages (loadshedding), and the emergence of domestic and international carbon taxes, there has never been a better time for businesses in South Africa to adopt renewable energy (RE) to realise significant savings on their electricity bills, lower their tax liability, secure…

ESI Africa - 27 February 2024 by Yunus Kemp

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BusinessTech - 27 February 2024

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Presentations Muhammed Patel (TIPS): Green H2: a potential export commodity in a new global marketplace Jason Bell (CREDD): Insights from green hydrogen for sustainable (re)industrialisation in South Africa paper Sören Scholvin (UCN): Green hydrogen and linkage-based development in Chile Bruce Young (Wits Energy Centre): TIPS Development Dialogue Green hydrogen and industrial policy slides…

MyBroadband - 2 March 2024 by Shaun Jacobs

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Main Bulletin: The Real Economy Bulletin - Fourth Quarter 2023 In this edition GDP growth: The GDP eked out a 0.1% increase in the fourth quarter of 2023, reversing the decline in the third quarter. For the year, growth came to 0.6%, driven almost exclusively by business and personal services. Mining was flat for the year, manufacturing shrank by 0.1%, and agriculture by 0.4%. Most of the growth occurred in the first half of 2023, with losses in the second half. Read more. Employment: Employment grew by 800 000 or almost 5% in 2023, far more rapidly than the GDP or the working-aged population.…

Engineering News - 4 March 2024 by Terence Creamer

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In the third quarter of 2023, the Tracker added 28 projects that are at varying stages of development. The total pledged investment value is R53.5 billion recorded from 11 projects. (The investment values of the  remaining 17 projects have not yet been disclosed.) There are five projects that reported employment opportunities that…

South Africa maintained a trade surplus in the third quarter of 2023, at R41 billion, up from R10 billion in the second quarter of 2023, but lower than the R53 billion from the third quarter of 2022. Exports declined by R41 billion to R529 billion in the year to the…