GoIndustry Dovebid South Africa has been awarded the tender contract to dispose of various parcels of land and buildings around the country on behalf of Telkom.

In advance of the introduction of the Department of Justice's proposed Court Annexed Mediation Scheme in South Africa, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has spent the past two years developing a Southern African panel of expert built environment practitioners.

Over R200 billion has been injected into the economy by the South African government last year, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said on Wednesday

THE South African listed property sector continues to grow in leaps and bounds, with four new property companies expected to list on the JSE before the end of this year.

Vukile overcame a lacklustre operating environment to increase its full year distribution by 5.4% to 131.59 cents per linked unit while at the same time enlarging the size of the portfolio by 26% to R7.7 billion in the 2013 financial year.

South Africa’s only rapid rail system, the Gautrain, is proving popular with passenger demand increasing by 60% since a year ago.

The recent introduction of independent power producers in South Africa is essential for the government to be able to “keep the lights on” and avoid the rolling blackouts of a few years ago.

The City of Cape Town, trade unions and a host of civil society organisations opposed Eskom’s request for an average annual increase of 16 percent over five years at Nersa’s hearings on Eskom’s tariff application.

The black-managed and substantially black-owned property loan stock company Delta Property Fund made its debut on the JSE on Friday, with 233,834 shares, worth nearly R2m, trading.The share reached a high of R8.65, but closed just 1c higher than its R8.31 low.

DELTA Property Fund CEO Sandile Nomvete says the cloud hanging over state leases needs to be resolved as it makes it difficult for black empowered companies to get new leases.