Gauteng Business 2023-24
The 2023/24 edition of Gauteng Business is the 14th issue of this highly successful publication that has established itself as the premier business and investment guide for the Gauteng Province. In addition to the regular articles providing insight into each of the key economic sectors of the province, a special feature on Special Economic Zones is included in this edition. SEZs are a major plank of industrial policy at national level and Gauteng is enthusiastically rolling out sector-specific zones in every district. The Vaal SEZ, which is preparing the way for ratification by national authorities, is the newest zone intended to boost development. All of the main economic sectors of the provincial economy are reviewed, ranging from agriculture, transport and logistics, energy and manufacturing through to education and training. Like the rest of the world, Gauteng is adapting to and innovating in the field of energy. The fact that mining companies and others are starting to build facilities to generate power is significant for the country as a whole. Gold Fields’ 40MW solar project at its South Deep mine and Sibanye-Stillwater making land available on the West Rand for solar farms are indicators for the future. To complement the extensive local, national and international distribution of the print edition, the full content can also be viewed online at www.globalafricanetwork.com under e-books. Updated information on Gauteng is also available through our monthly e-newsletter, which you can subscribe to online at www.southafricanbusiness.co.za, in addition to our complementary business-to-business titles that cover all nine provinces as well as our flagship South African Business title and the new addition to our list of titles, The Journal of African Business, which was launched in 2020.
The 2023/24 edition of Gauteng Business is the 14th issue of this highly successful publication that has established itself as the premier business and investment guide for the Gauteng Province.
In addition to the regular articles providing insight into each of the key economic sectors of the province, a special feature on Special Economic Zones is included in this edition. SEZs are a major plank of industrial policy at national level and Gauteng is enthusiastically rolling out sector-specific zones in every district. The Vaal SEZ, which is preparing the way for ratification by national authorities, is the newest zone intended to boost development.
All of the main economic sectors of the provincial economy are reviewed, ranging from agriculture, transport and logistics, energy and manufacturing through to education and training. Like the rest of the world, Gauteng is adapting to and innovating in the field of energy. The fact that mining companies and others are starting to build facilities to generate power is significant for the country as a whole. Gold Fields’ 40MW solar project at its South Deep mine and Sibanye-Stillwater making land available on the West Rand for solar farms are indicators for the future.
To complement the extensive local, national and international distribution of the print edition, the full content can also be viewed online at www.globalafricanetwork.com under e-books. Updated information on Gauteng is also available through our monthly e-newsletter, which you can subscribe to online at www.southafricanbusiness.co.za, in addition to our complementary business-to-business titles that cover all nine provinces as well as our flagship South African Business title and the new addition to our list of titles, The Journal of African Business, which was launched in 2020.
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Mining<br />
Excellence in manufacturing is being rewarded.<br />
The first MEMSA Manufacturing Excellence Awards unearthed<br />
some innovative and ambitious projects.<br />
Mining Equipment Manufacturers of South Africa<br />
(MEMSA) is an industry cluster established in 2016 with the<br />
support of the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (dtic).<br />
The 2022 awards evening was held together with SEIFSA Awards for<br />
Excellence. SEIFSA is the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation<br />
of Southern Africa.<br />
The MEMSA awards are supported by the South African Mining<br />
Extraction Research, Development and Innovation (SAMERDI)<br />
programme, which in turn is backed by the Department of Science<br />
and Innovation (DSI) and the Minerals Council South Africa (MCSA).<br />
Awards were given in four categories: Customised Customer<br />
Service, Localised Supply Chain, Manufacturing Solutions and<br />
MEMSA Member Manufacturer of the Year 2022.<br />
The Localised Supply Chain award was shared by Buraaq Mining<br />
Services and Rham Equipment, a South Africa OEM manufacturing<br />
hard and soft-rock mining machinery.<br />
NTGR Engineering Projects won the Manufacturing Solutions<br />
award for implementing GIS-based and advanced precision<br />
manufacturing technology. The award for Customised Customer<br />
Service went to ProProcess Engineering, and the MEMSA Member<br />
Manufacturer of the Year was Bell Equipment.<br />
MEMSA’s headquarters are located in the Mandela Mining<br />
Precinct in Melville, Johannesburg. The Precinct is a public-private<br />
partnership between the DSI and the MCSA and is managed by the<br />
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.<br />
<strong>Gauteng</strong> is home to most of the research and training bodies<br />
associated with mining. Sibanye-Stillwater supports the Wits Mining<br />
Institute’s Digital Mining Laboratory (Digimine). AECI, the explosives<br />
and chemicals company, sponsors the Virtual Reality Mine Design<br />
Centre at the University of Pretoria. Mintek is an autonomous body<br />
based in Randburg which receives about 30% of its budget from the<br />
Department of Mineral Resources.<br />
The University of Witwatersrand started life as the South African<br />
School of Mines. The School of Mining Engineering at Wits is the<br />
highest-ranked school at the university in terms of the QS World<br />
University Rankings. Pretoria University has a Department of Mining<br />
ONLINE RESOURCES<br />
Council for Geoscience: www.geoscience.org.za<br />
MEMSA: www.memsa.org.za<br />
Minerals Council South Africa: www.mineralscouncil.org.za<br />
SECTOR INSIGHT<br />
<strong>Gauteng</strong> is the home of<br />
mining research.<br />
OVERVIEW<br />
A MEMSA award winner. Rahm<br />
Equipment makes roofbolters for the<br />
mining industry.<br />
Engineering, the University of<br />
South Africa offers three national<br />
diplomas in mine-related fields,<br />
the University of Johannesburg<br />
has mine-surveying courses and<br />
the Vaal and Tshwane Universities<br />
of Technology have engineering<br />
faculties. Harmony Gold’s<br />
acquisition strategy, including<br />
the purchase from AngloGold of<br />
Moab Khotsong, will result in it<br />
being the country’s biggest gold<br />
producer. It could produce an<br />
annual total of 1.7-million ounces.<br />
A new company, Shallow<br />
Reefs Gold, has been created to<br />
pursue projects in the shallow<br />
reefs of the Witwatersrand<br />
Gold Basin. The company<br />
believes that the grade of the<br />
deposits makes for a good<br />
economic proposition. Cullinan<br />
diamond mine is engaged in an<br />
expansion programme called<br />
the C-Cut Phase 1 project.<br />
Cullinan is famous for its rare<br />
blue diamonds. ■<br />
21<br />
GAUTENG BUSINESS <strong>2023</strong>/<strong>24</strong>
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