Irma Venter is a Senior Deputy Editor at Creamer Media, where she covers a diverse range of topics including automotive, electric vehicles, construction, and logistics. Her work focuses on themes such as energy sustainability, renewable energy, and green logistics, reflecting her commitment to exploring the intersection of technology and industry. Irma's insights and analyses have been featured in Polity, Engineering News, and Mining Weekly.
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Irma Venter mainly focuses on local business and industry, with a particular emphasis on vehicle technology, transportation, and energy in South Africa. Her coverage heavily features press releases, government announcements, data citations, and private sector announcements.
Given the focus on local news within South Africa's Western Cape region and Cape Town specifically, pitches should be tailored to provide insights or stories related to developments in vehicle technology (particularly electric vehicles), transportation infrastructure projects within the region or country-wide, as well as updates in renewable energy initiatives specific to South Africa.
Potential pitching angles could include exclusive interviews with key figures involved in significant local business developments related to new vehicle technologies or transportation infrastructure projects. Additionally, providing localized data or analysis relevant to these sectors may also be of interest.
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By: Irma Venter
The global operational stock of industrial robots surged 9% to a record five-million units last year, says the Germany-based International Federation of Robotics (IFR). This was driven by an 11% jump in yearly installations, with factories worldwide installing more than 600 000 new units over the year.
By: Irma Venter
South Africa’s localisation ambitions must extend beyond the manufacture of new vehicles to include the retail and automotive aftermarket, says Retail Motor Industry Organisation (RMI) CEO Ipeleng Mabusela. Speaking at the South African Auto Week 2026, held in Durban last week, he said that these markets represented a substantial economic base, while it also supported hundreds of thousands of jobs and offered opportunities to strengthen local component manufacturing.
Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has cut the ribbon on the city’s new hybrid power station – the Helderhoop Solar and Storage Power Plant in Atlantis. While construction of the project has been wrapped up, the plant is still operating under controlled test conditions as part of the commissioning process.
By: Irma Venter
South Africa now has a national body dedicated to electric vehicles (EVs) and the ecosystem surrounding them – the South African Electric Mobility Association (SAEMA). SAEMA aims to give the local EV industry a unified domestic voice.
By: Irma Venter
The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa’s (PRASA’s) real estate arm, Intersite Asset Investments (IAI), has awarded six Western Cape development opportunities to private-sector partners in a proposed R3.6-billion investment pipeline. Intersite says the projects are expected to deliver 790 residential apartments and 4 466 student accommodation beds on rail-linked land.
By: Irma Venter
“Drill, baby, drill” is the only realistic way forward for the African continent if it has any hope of eradicating poverty, says African Energy Chamber executive chairperson NJ Ayuk. “Exploration is the absolute key to our survival. . . Africa is not asking permission to develop our resources.”
New BOATPro research presented at the African Boating Conference, held in Cape Town this week, shows that Southern Africa recorded 36 visiting superyachts over 24 m last year, compared with just 14 in 2019. Significantly, the average length of visiting yachts in 2025 was 60 m, compared with a global average of around 34 m.
The Western Cape Department of Infrastructure says it is making progress on the R797-million Van Schoorsdrift road safety improvement project along the N7 north of Cape Town, with completion scheduled for March next year. The project includes roughly five kilometres of new road, six bridge structures and the elimination of at-grade intersections to improve road safety and traffic flow along this transport corridor.
By: Irma Venter
The City of Cape Town (CoCT) says it has driven 51 reform actions across nine key business-facing services since 2022, as part of its efforts to cut red tape, improve municipal efficiency and make Cape Town the easiest place to do business in Africa. “Through our Ease of Doing Business programme, we are working across city departments to simplify processes, reduce delays and make it easier for businesses to interact with the municipality,” says CoCT Economic Growth MMC James Vos.
By: Irma Venter
The City of Cape Town (CoCT) has developed a new-energy vehicle (NEV) adoption plan as part of its broader fleet management framework. This NEV plan establishes a structured and phased approach to transitioning the city’s municipal fleet towards lower- and zero-emission vehicles, says CoCT Corporate Services MMC Theresa Uys.
