The summer of our discontent

The South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) will on November 29 resume procurement for roadway construction projects, with 86 tenders to be promoted. CEO Reginald Demana has actually revealed that the roadways company is resuming organization after tenders worth billions of rands were stalled owing to a legal impasse in between Sanral and some building business over the entity’s preferential procurement policy (PPP).

Scotland-based automotive manufacturer Munro Vehicles revealed the completion of the first pre-production model of its white Series-M energy all-electric 4×4 earlier this month. The car is a hard-top five-seater and leaves the factory in East Kilbride ten months after Munro revealed the MK 1 prototype design in Edinburgh in December 2022.

Transport business Gebrüder Weiss has actually dispatched an advanced solar-powered e-truck and exploration equipment to Chile, by sea freight, with the intent to help a group attempting to reach the summit of the world’s greatest volcano, Ojos del Salado. Gebrüder Weiss is the group’s primary sponsor and logistics partner, and if the group reaches the summit, this would be a brand-new world record, as no car on the planet has ever climbed that high.

A prominent South African side-tipper truck manufacturer has actually significantly raised its monthly orders for South African bearings producer Vesconite Bearings’ self-lubricating bushings, which Vesconite advancement engineer Tristen Wintershoven states, “showcases the producer’s rely on Vesconite’s items, however likewise signals a basic shift in the sector’s procurement standards”. He attributes this considerable development to the business’s “exceptional performance, as well as the self-lubrication products’ exceptional dimensional stability”, which he states has placed it as the preferred choice, and enabled it to go beyond standard materials like nylon and bronze.

The road leading to South Africa’s main border with Mozambique, a crucial export path for coal and chrome, was closed on Friday after clashes between truck motorists and minibus taxi operators who ‘d been marshaling the queue of traffic near the border, which often goes for miles. Truckers apparently torched vehicles belonging to the taxi marshals, said Moeti Mmusi, representative for the Mpumalanga Department of Community Safety, Security and Liaison. The marshals had actually because June been attempting to bring order to the Lebombo highway crossing that is typically completely gridlocked, with motorists marooned for days waiting to go into Mozambique from South Africa’s Mpumalanga province.