Johannesburg, 5 October 2026 — The DGT truck booking system 2026 overhaul is now official. Durban Gateway Terminal (DGT) will replace its truck appointment system, chief executive Javier Lancha said on Friday, 2 October. He told a briefing with Transport Minister Barbara Creecy that the
Johannesburg, 2 October 2026 — Truck sales September 2026 data show the first stall in the commercial vehicle market this quarter. Heavy truck and bus sales slipped by 25 units to 2,204, according to naamsa figures reported by Business Day and The Rio Times on
Johannesburg, 1 October 2026 — TNPA separation 2026 has cleared Cabinet. Cabinet “supported the separation of the Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) to operate as a stand-alone company owned directly by the state.” That is according to the statement on its meeting of 23 September,
Johannesburg, 1 October 2026 — SANRAL road maintenance 2026 is starting again from the beginning. The South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL) told Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Transport on 29 September that it has abandoned its R9.5-billion routine road maintenance panel. Instead, it will appoint
Johannesburg, 29 September 2026 — The DGT recovery 2026 is real on the quay but not yet at the gate. Durban Gateway Terminal (DGT) told Freight News on 25 September that its performance has improved. The gains followed the Navis operating system going live in
Johannesburg, 29 September 2026 — The manganese export corridor 2026 project is now open for private partners. Transnet issued a request for qualifications on 23 September for a partner to upgrade the rail line from Hotazel in the Northern Cape to the Port of Ngqura
Update: October 2026 fuel prices are out — see the latest figures here. Johannesburg, 29 September 2026 — The record diesel price 2026 is now eight days away. According to MyBroadband, Central Energy Fund (CEF) data to 24 September puts inland wholesale 50ppm diesel at
Copper cable theft prevention has become a budget line for South African businesses that never thought of themselves as infrastructure owners: farms with borehole pumps, factories with yard lighting, telecom sites, solar installations and construction projects. The national figures explain why thieves keep coming back. In a January 2024 statement,
Alarm systems in South Africa have to survive conditions that brochures written elsewhere rarely mention: rolling power cuts, criminals carrying signal jammers, and insurers who decline burglary claims when an alarm was not armed. The wired-versus-wireless debate used to be simple. Wired meant reliable and wireless meant convenient but fragile.
Commercial water leak detection matters more in South Africa than most property managers assume, because every litre that escapes on the private side of the meter is billed at business tariffs. Office parks, factories, schools and retail centres rarely lose water dramatically. Instead, a urinal cistern runs all night, an
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