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#DesignMonth: Mobile, solar-powered energy solution seeks funding
[Sindy Peters] The Greenerator aims to solve the perpetual power deficiency in Africa... read



Design Month
#DesignMonth: Mellowcabs to hit SA streets in 2016

Sindy Peters

Mellowcabs are low-cost, emissions-free, electrically powered vehicles that you'll find noiselessly zipping through South African city streets in the coming months... read
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Energy
How new energy technologies can help SA ease its energy crunch

Nosipho Moloto and Siyabonga P. Ngubane

Energy is an economic driver of both developed and developing countries... read
Oil and gas companies must focus beyond current issues
PwC's New Energy Futures report states that oil and gas firms need to expand their focus beyond short-term issues - such as tumbling oil prices and over-supply - if they are to successfully navigate the growing range of disruptive forces that will shape the industry. read
Mining
Zimbabwe seizes unlicensed diamond mines
Zimbabwe on Monday, 22 February, said it was seizing diamond companies that were operating without licenses and had spurned an offer to join a state conglomerate... read
Mining sector must go green
Mineral Resources Deputy Minister Godfrey Oliphant says for the mining industry to remain sustainable, it can no longer be business as usual... read
TLT-Turbo GmbH acquires majority shareholding in MechCaL
TLT-Turbo GmbH has acquired the majority shareholding in MechCaL (Pty) Ltd, previously held by the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Limited (IDC) and private investors... read
MIT offers mineworkers financial literacy training
The Mineworkers Investment Trust (MIT), in conjunction with Sanlam, are rolling out financial literacy programmes for workers in the mining, energy and construction industries... read
Survival of mining industry depends on investment in workers

Joanne Doyle-Went

South Africa's economic prospects remain gloomy for the foreseeable future, with some including the International Monetary Fund predicting that the economy will barely avoid going into recession in 2017... read
South African mineworkers are facing a debt crisis

Glen Jordan

South Africans borrow more money than anyone else in the world, and the country is falling further into a debt trap that numbers in the trillions... read
Nuclear Power
Time to rethink monopoly state utility model of power generation

Peter Marais

President Jacob Zuma's State of the Nation Address (SoNA) gave little indication of how it plans to afford 9,600MW of new nuclear power capacity in the next decade. He hinted that nuclear would only be rolled out on a scale and pace that South Africa can afford, but who determines that affordability? read
Government's policy on nuclear future is clear
Dr Anthonie Cilliers of North West University's School of Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering says president Jacob Zuma's remarks during last week's State of the Nation Address on the country's nuclear future might seem contradictory, but this is not the case... read
Renewables & Energy Efficiency
Ilanga 1 CSP Project wins PFI solar deal of the year
The Ilanga 1 CSP Project recently won the 2015 Project Finance International (PFI) Solar Deal of the Year... read
Altitec, Obelisk enter joint RE venture
Altitec, a rope access blade repair and inspection specialist, and Obelisk, a provider of infrastructure services to the global renewable energy, telecommunications and power markets, have signed a five-year joint venture agreement... read
Science & Engineering
Types of people who work with chromatography

Boris Dzhingarov, Issued by Monetary Library

Coming from Greek roots, "chromatography" roughly translates to "colour to write", and involves a set of techniques that allows for the separation of mixtures within a lab... read
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