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 | Sindy Peters The technology used to produce renewable energy has advanced by leaps and bounds over the last 10 years, providing a greater output at lower costs. Energy storage, on the other hand, has been a persistent bugbear. LiGE believes it has the answer... read | |
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 | Machine-to-machine (M2M) technology could affect energy, agriculture, asset tracking and retail payments sectors across Africa, where it will not only improve efficiencies but also reduce costs... read |
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 | The construction of any power station comes with environmental implications, which can only be neutralised through geosynthetics... read |
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 | Farming in South Africa is facing a severe drought and steadily increasing costs. To counter these threats, farmers need new business strategies to reduce operating costs... read |
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 | Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies has launched a R15m feasibility study that will identify particular components that can be manufactured for fuel cell units... read |
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 | 40,000 jobs stand to be created due to the development of the Saldanha Bay Industrial Development Zone and more than 21,000 of these jobs will be created in the Western Cape by 2021... read |
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 | Many highly specialised software packages have for some time been effectively utilised by engineering consultants. But as mining companies cut back their technical capacity in response to the market slump, consultants are finding themselves taking on more of the specialised and strategic work... read |
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 | South African legal firm Thomson Wilks has announced a strategic alliance with French law firm Heenan Paris. The partnership is set to service the mining and infrastructure sectors in Africa... read |
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 | Nicci Botha One of the key threads that emerged from Mining Indaba 2016 is the need for mining companies to engage all stakeholders - especially local communities - as partners in their endeavours... read |
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 | Ntsakisi Maswanganyi Manufacturing and mining output remain constrained, providing little prospect for employment and GDP growth... read |
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 | Antonio Malfense Fierro Malawi has aspirations to increase mining contributions to GDP from 1% to 20% by 2020... read |
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 | With 70% of platinum being produced in South Africa, government is working towards opening a new industry-based Special Economic Zone in the North West, to look into beneficiation... read |
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 | According to SRK Consulting, gone are the days when mines in Africa could afford to 'go it alone' by building their own infrastructure. Survival and growth now needs a foundation of collaboration with governments... read |
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 | Nicci Botha The biggest gem-quality diamond ever to be found in Botswana was christened "Lesedi la Rona" (Our Light) at the Mining Indaba 2016... read |
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 | Following ten successful KPMG Mining Executive Forums held in Canada, the inaugural Africa version of the forum was held in Johannesburg under the theme 'Fit For Future'... read |
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 | Nicci Botha African resources-based economies are going to have to recreate their mining sectors if they want to weather the current market slump, says former Zimbabwean finance minister, Tendai Biti... read |
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 | Kumba Iron Ore, which aims to be debt-free by year end, has started talks with Transnet about take-or-pay provisions in a rail contract for sending ore to Saldanha port... read |
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 | The Department of Environmental Affairs and its partners recently conducted the Biogas Report which examines the potential biogas has as a source of transport based on the relevant waste sources in the country... read |
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 | Hilde Herman, of EES Africa, says renewable energy - in the form of biogas generated from anaerobic digestion - has not nearly reached its full potential in South Africa... read |
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 | Vikram Solar has partnered with Powertech Africa to enter 14 new markets in sub-Saharan Africa, including Botswana, Zimbabwe and Tanzania... read |
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 | Unearthed hosted its first international Hackathon this past weekend in Cape Town where 100+ entrepreneurs and innovators came together to prototype solutions to industry challenges... read |
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 | In this world, you ultimately receive exactly what your inward authentic self truly feels you deserve, no more and no less. Building your profile in business is very much about building your profile in life... read |
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