Tender Admin

The SA National Roads Agency will in the next six months issue tenders worth about R28bn aimed at stimulating economic growth across all provinces.

After two days of hearings at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, 17 judges are now left to sort through one divisive case, and consider whether to try helping unravel one of the world’s most polarizing conflicts in recent memory.

As tender corruption allegations continue to haunt the National Student Financial Aid Scheme handling more than R46bn in grants, NGO Accountability Now head advocate Paul Hoffman believes tenders should be axed and scheme employees take over the direct distribution of funds to students.

In its aim to mitigate the impact of load shedding and reducing its reliance on Eskom, the City of Cape Town has announced a tender for independent power.

A Woolworths poster proclaiming that its cafés would go cashless has stirred debate on social media, with some people threatening to boycott its stores. The retailer is hardly trying something revolutionary though: The times are a-changin’.

Construction of the battery energy storage system projects will commence in mid-2024 with an investment of $375 million.

Retailers are not obliged to accept cash as a means of payment, even though it is defined as legal tender.

A consortium including CIP and EDF has won preferred bidder status for three battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in South Africa.

South Africa’s first public battery storage tender has awarded preferred bidder status for three battery projects totalling 1,028MWh/257MW.