Greater energy efficiency is now crucial for both business and ordinary citizens, the Green Building Council of South Africa warned in the face of further electricity hikes which have been proposed in the 2015 Budget.

South Africa’s commercial real estate sector welcomed the announcement by Minister of Finance Nhlanhla Nene in his budget speech yesterday that National Treasury is supporting, and working towards, extending South Africa’s REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) dispensation to unlisted property-owning companies.

Finance Minister Nene highlights challenges facing SA

Parliament's new presiding officers want the legislature's shelved multimillion-rand expansion programme to be implemented with immediate effect.