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Regulator the Quality Council for Trades and Occupations (QCTO) has formally approved three new National Qualifications Framework (NQF) Level 4 green hydrogen skills programmes, namely green hydrogen production, green hydrogen storage and transfer and green hydrogen technology, says Chemical Industries Education and Training Authority (CHIETA).

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Green economy nonprofit GreenCape and civic education nonprofit Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom has opened entries for the 2025 GreenPitch Challenge and invites innovators and entrepreneurs with economically viable green economy innovation business ideas to enter. The green economy innovation business ideas stand a chance to pitch to a panel of judges at an event in Cape Town in September.

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Industrial energy solutions company Energy Partners has launched its operational performance data platform Syntiro that uses granular, real-time meter data at five-second measurement intervals of power, cooling, water and heating to produce full, integrated sustainability reports. Energy Partners, which owns and operates more than $90-million in embedded energy assets in South Africa, developed the system for its own use.

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After studying the final report from the Council for the Built Environment (CBE), Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson will return to George, in the Western Cape, to present the findings to the families affected by the building collapse in that town on May 6, 2024, which claimed the lives of 34 individuals and injured 28 others. “They deserve to hear directly from us, not through the media, about what went wrong and how we intend to rectify it,” he says.

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Financial services firm Absa’s Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) decreased by 1.6 points to 43.1 in May, with the headline PMI remaining in contractionary territory for the seventh consecutive month. This suggests that the manufacturing sector continued to suffer in May, despite some flickers of activity and demand improvement, albeit at extremely low levels. However, a decline in the supplier deliveries index pushed the headline PMI lower, the report says.