The public enterprises department has taken the extraordinary step of releasing a confidential report on the state of SA’s electricity market which paints a bleak picture of the prospects for power supply in the next few years.

South Africa's State-owned Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) said yesterday that it would take a 15% stake in the planned 660 000-t aluminium smelter at Coega, in the Eastern Cape.

Pretoria - Government buildings, starting with the Union Buildings in Pretoria and parliament in Cape Town, are to be made more energy efficient.