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Mampara Number 2
17th March 2023 By: Martin Zhuwakinyu

Tunisia, a small North African nation, has had a lot of bad press of late. This comes on the back of a campaign against immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa, with reports rife of random identity... 


Forgotten electronics
17th March 2023 By: Terry Mackenzie-hoy

Over the various years, there have been a number of instances of electronic devices which have been invented that have been widely used and then which have been surpassed and finally overtaken by... 


Incoterms® centenary
17th March 2023 By: Riaan de Lange

According to the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), “Incoterms® is the world’s essential terms of trade for the sale of goods”. Incoterms®, a registered trademark, is the abbreviation for... 


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Zealous attention must be given to skills development
17th March 2023 By: Martin Creamer

The mining industry in particular has been drawing attention to the shortage of skills and the critical need to close the skills gap, which has been exacerbated by yet another emigration wave that... 


Stuart Reneke
Opinion: We need more than plans to achieve a just energy transition
10th March 2023

In this article, Tutwa Consulting Group Just Energy Transition Programme senior associate engineer Stuart Reneke and economist Danae Govender write that South Africa needs a comprehensive... 


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Opinion: Eskom is proactively dealing with fraud and corruption
10th March 2023

In this article written on March 10, Eskom board chairperson Mpho Makwana insists that the State-owned utility is resolute in pursuing those who have enriched themselves at the expense of our... 


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Right to be paranoid
10th March 2023 By: Terence Creamer

Some of the reactions to the regulations that were belatedly published to give effect to the state of disaster declared to tackle South Africa’s more than decade-old electricity crisis could be... 


Aged face of governance
10th March 2023 By: Martin Zhuwakinyu

At the time of writing, Bola Tinibu had just been named Nigeria’s President-Elect, after the wizened former governor of Lagos, Africa’s largest city, had shrugged off challenges from contenders who... 


Dark days
10th March 2023 By: Terry Mackenzie-hoy

In many newspapers and in Engineering News & Mining Weekly itself, there are references to the collapse of the power grid. Just so that we all understand what we are talking about, the grid is the... 


Micro-arguments and the process of large change – Part 1
10th March 2023 By: Saliem Fakir

‘All men (women) are intellectuals  . . . but not all men (women) have in society the function of intellectuals.” – Gramsci. It seems incremental change, or what one would call the reformist... 


Greylisted
10th March 2023 By: Riaan de Lange

It is customary to dedicate this column to the Finance Minister’s Budget speech which it is presented, and this year it was delivered on February 22. It thus speaks volumes when the speech is... 


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South Africa must be fixed, irrespective of how hard that will be to achieve
10th March 2023 By: Martin Creamer

The time has come for influential South Africans to collaborate more intensively than ever to put this country back on to a decent path. Greylisting, talk of people we pay sabotaging us, energy... 


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No way back
3rd March 2023 By: Terence Creamer

The explosive eNCA interview with André de Ruyter truly rammed home what most people, besides those with their noses in the looting trough, already knew: relying primarily on Eskom Generation to... 


Beware of political scammers
3rd March 2023 By: Martin Zhuwakinyu

A disclaimer first: this piece is not exactly original, as it draws heavily from a recent Twitter thread by Zakes Mda, the acclaimed South African novelist, poet and playwright who currently lives... 


Even more adventures in the Defence Force
3rd March 2023 By: Terry Mackenzie-hoy

This is the third article concerning my time doing my national service, of which I spent the major part of two years between 1975 and 1977 at the Durban Naval Command, which was established to... 


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