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Afrox

Karen Swatton

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Position: Head of safety, health, environment and quality (SHEQ)

By: Martin Zhuwakinyu

29 Aug 08

Afrimat

Andries van Heerden

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CEO Afrimat, since 2006,

By: Martin Creamer

06 Jun 08

Energy

Full name: Abraham de Klerk Position: Group GM Sasol Limited, 2003 Main activity of the company: Oil, gas, chemicals, mining Date of birth: 1951 Education: BSc (Mech) Eng, University of Pretoria, 1973; MBA, Potchefstroom University, 1978 First...

By: Laura Franz

10 Sep 04

Science Engineering Technology

R1,6m Cape Town pollution study launched

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THE unsightly brown haze caused by air pollution, which hovers over Cape Town mainly during the winter months, is to be the focus of a R1,6-million scientific study.

By: Jill Stanford

08 Aug 03

Defence

Big space-science skills push hosted by UCT

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South Africa has the instruments, the facilities and the capital and will soon be adding the final component – human resources– to its space science programme.

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14 Mar 03

Education and Training

PBMR – electrifying SA’s R&D sector

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SOUTH Africa’s pebble-bed modular reactor (PBMR) programme is almost certainly the country’s biggest civilian high-technology scientific and engineering research and development (R&D) programme.

By: Keith Campbell

31 Jan 03

Electricity

PBMR test-rig start-up a world first

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South Africa’s Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) project achieved a major milestone, with the successful start-up of a test-rig for the power conversion system.

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Easter	Africa	African Astronomical Observatory Astronomy Observatory Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory Hermanus Magnetic Observatory South African Astronomical Observatory Pebble Bed Modular Reactor	Radio Astronomy Observatory