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Traders Journal interviewed the Managing Director of Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited (TANESCO), Mr Rudy Huysen, a South African, on a number of issues affecting Tanzania's electricity supply, and future endeavours to strengthen the country's power sub-sector.
In May 2002, the government of Tanzania decided to hire a Management Contractor - NETGroup Solutions of South Afr...
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Traders speaks to Minnie Venter-Hildebrand, General Manager, Africa/South Africa of Umgeni Water about its business model, activities in Africa and views on PPPs.
Please could you provide a brief overview of Umgeni Water, including shareholding, operating structure, areas of involvement in Africa?
There is no shareholding; Umgeni Water is a public entity falling under the N...
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Sub-Sahara African customers are becoming aware of the need for best in class diesel powered electricity generating systems. Demand for electricity has grown to a point where security of supply can no longer be fully guaranteed by the national and local providers in the medium to long term.
Suppliers could, in the past, not be faulted for recommending low cost standby power solutions, give...
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In September 2002 the SADC Banking Association, with a commitment of Canadian Dollars 4.2 million from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), initiated a five year capacity building initiative aimed at developing skills amongst public and private sector individuals in SADC to design, develop and deliver infrastructure projects and improve on service delivery through public-privat...
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Dr Lawrence Musab
How much priority do SAPP and other regional bodies place on rural energy supply?
SAPP members have placed a lot of priority on rural energy supply. Almost all of the SAPP members have a rural electrification programme of one kind or the other, for instance, the parliament in Zimbabwe passed the Rural Electrification Fund (REF) Bill in January 2002. The REF Act i...
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Information supplied by the Copperbelt Energy Corporation of Zambia
Born out of Zambia’s privatisation
of the mines, Zambia’s Copperbelt
Energy Corporation PLC (CEC) is
responsible for supplying ‘fail-safe’ power
to the mines situated on the Copperbelt
Province of Zambia – the backbone of the
country’s economy. In recent years, CEC
has undertaken various p...
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Agro-Fuel Investments, a
privately owned Zambian
company, has revived
Lusaka Engineering Company
(Lenco), the engineering giant
of the country’s parastatal era.
Agro-Fuel engineering division
production manager,
Christmas Ngoma, a former
Lenco heavy engineering superintendent,
believes that Agro-
Fuel’s purchase “will mark a
significant engineering renewa...
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