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National Development Plan to grow jobs
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan outlined a job growth-oriented mid-term Budget this week, highlighting the 275 000 new jobs created this year to July, and a public works programme that's created 970 000 work opportunities.
• SA is 'Country of the Future'
South Africa’s energy supply
South Africa's strong economic growth, rapid industrialisation and a mass
electrification programme led, by early 2008, to demand for power outstripping
supply. The multi-faceted plan to correct this includes spending a projected R343-
billion over five years to fund a new generation of power stations.
Power sector ripe for innovation
There are huge opportunities for investment and innovation in South Africa’s power sector – so says Dr Steve Lennon, power utility Eskom’s group executive for sustainability.
• Power from South Africa’s wind
Work begins on Kusile power station
Construction has begun on Kusile, the second new coal-fired power station being built as part of Eskom's multi-billion rand expansion, and the first in South Africa to make use of a new technology that removes oxides from exhaust gases.
