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Magazine round up | 20 May 2022 
20th May 2022 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
JSE enters new era as it builds seamless digital marketplace
By: Natasha Odendaal 20th May 2022 The JSE is entering a new era as it leverages its wholly owned venture JSE Private Placements (JPP) to build a future-fit capital market delivering a seamless digital marketplace that matches private debt and equity issuers with investors. The JSE, which has been working on the development of the... →
Test site provides platform to trial innovations under real mining conditions
By: Marleny Arnoldi 20th May 2022 Public–private partnership for innovation the Mandela Mining Precinct’s (MMP’s) test mine is poised to deliver value to mining companies, original-equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and other stakeholders while contributing to the industry’s sustainability. This partnership, aimed at assisting... →
Vesconite – the ideal bearing material for many agricultural applications
13th May 2022 South African wear part and bearings manufacturer Vesconite Bearings produces Vesconite and Vesconite Hilube at its Virginia manufacturing facility in the Free State. →
Magazine round up | 13 May 2022
13th May 2022 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
Lesedi continues to execute projects in mining industry
By: Simone Liedtke 12th May 2022 Multi-disciplinary projects organisation Lesedi Nuclear Services is active at clients in the mining sector and has, over the last six years, executed several projects for mining industry clients focusing on support systems in mining processes. These include, among others, a focus on environmental... →
How the mining sector can unearth SA’s most valuable resource with YES
By: Simone Liedtke 9th May 2022 The South African mining industry can play an important part in tackling the country’s unemployment crisis, particularly when it comes to youth employment and the upliftment of mining communities. The Youth Employment Service (YES) partners with mining companies to help them achieve the... →
Magazine round up | 06 May 2022
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Magazine round up | 29 April 2022
29th April 2022 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
Sandton Pause lounge to keep taxi drivers occupied during off-peak times
By: Donna Slater 28th April 2022 A “Pause Lounge” was launched at the JR005 taxi rank, in Sandton, on April 28, to provide taxi drivers on off-peak times after the morning rush with a place to rest, relax and pass time while they wait for the afternoon or evening peak times. Outfitted with a pool table, foosball and table... →
Magazine round up | 22 April 2022
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Magazine round up | 15 April 2022
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Magazine round up | 08 April 2022
8th April 2022 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
Steinmüller remains ready for growth in the energy market
By: Marleny Arnoldi 1st April 2022 Although Steinmüller Africa has had to scale down its Pretoria West manufacturing facility in recent years to align with lower demand, the company is optimistic about growth prospects going forward as a result of growing momentum in the procurement of new national power generation capacity.... →
Magazine round up | 01 April 2022
1st April 2022 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
Science, technology and innovation must be used for equitable development
By: Tasneem Bulbulia 29th March 2022 Science, technology and innovation have played a key role in the global response to mitigating the Covid-19 pandemic; however, more must be done to ensure that such efforts can be translated into worldwide sustainable development and reaching the United Nations’ (UN’s) Sustainable Development... →
Higher realised prices, local demand drives Hulamin’s return to profitability
By: Marleny Arnoldi 28th March 2022 JSE-listed aluminium semi-fabricator and supplier Hulamin’s response to the hardships of 2019 and 2020 has paid off with a return to profitability in 2021. The group posted a 760% year-on-year rise in operating profit to R538-million for the year ended December 31, 2021, on the back of... →
TIPS says broader, engaged development approaches needed to realise just transition projects
By: Marleny Arnoldi 25th March 2022 Research institution Trade & Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS) has unpacked how just energy transition (JET) projects require a different approach to planning, financing and development, away from the traditional model. Addressing delegates during a webinar on March 24, TIPS senior economist... →
Magazine round up | 25 March 2022
25th March 2022 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
AfDB to set up facility to support South Africa’s just energy transition 
By: Terence Creamer 24th March 2022 African Development Bank (AfDB) president Dr Akinwumi Adesina says the development finance institution is ready to support South Africa’s transition from coal to renewable energy and announced that a just energy transition facility was being created by the bank to support the country’s transition... →
Magazine round up | 18 March 2022
18th March 2022 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
Libstar emerges from 2021 with focused portfolio, on sound financial footing
By: Marleny Arnoldi 16th March 2022 Consumer packaged goods manufacturer Libstar says the year ended December 31, 2021, marked one with unprecedented supply chain disruptions, input cost inflation and economic pressure, but its ‘protection’ strategy has proven fruitful notwithstanding. In the year under review, Libstar... →
Drones successful in deterring railway cable theft syndicates
By: Donna Slater 15th March 2022 Johannesburg-based unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operator and developer UAV & Drone Solutions (UDS) proposes that government departments and State-owned entities (SOEs) use, to a far greater extent, the services it provides to curb critical infrastructure theft and vandalism. Cable theft for... →
Magazine round up | 11 March 2022
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Gungubele on building a capable, ethical, professional and developmental State
9th March 2022 Minister in The Presidency Mondli Gungubele speaking at a National Development Plan public lecture on March 7 under the theme 'Reclaiming and Building a Capable, Ethical, Professional and Developmental State'. →
Companies must do fact finding if adversely mentioned in State capture report – Pinsent Masons advises
By: Thabi Madiba 4th March 2022 Pinsent Masons partner and white collar crime expert Edward James has advised companies to stay up to date with media reports about companies implicated in State capture and to check whether suppliers are adversely mentioned in the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into State Capture report.... →
Magazine round up | 04 March 2022
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AECI lifts 2021 revenue, records lowest total recordable incident rate
By: Donna Slater 2nd March 2022 JSE-listed chemicals group AECI increased its revenue by 8% year-on-year to R26.05-billion in 2021 and declared a total ordinary dividend of R6.85 a share – up 20% year-on-year. The company declared a final ordinary cash dividend of R5.05, 7% higher than the R4.70 in 2020. →
Industry cautiously optimistic following Godongwana’s maiden Budget
By: Simone Liedtke 25th February 2022 In spite of South Africa’s construction sector being one of the country’s slowest-growing sectors of the last decade, economic consultancy Econometrix chief director and economist Dr Azar Jammine remains optimistic that, following the National Budget speech earlier this week, the South African... →
Magazine round up | 25 February 2022
25th February 2022 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
Business innovation survey to evaluate opportunities, barriers and challenges
By: Schalk Burger 24th February 2022 The Human Sciences Research Council's (HSRC's) Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (CeSTII) will start conducting the seventh Business Innovation Survey on March 12. The survey will gather the opinions of 5 500 randomly selected, locally registered large to very small... →
Magazine round up | 18 February 2022
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Nzimande outlines key role for green hydrogen in recovery as he launches Hydrogen Society Road Map 
By: Terence Creamer 17th February 2022 Higher Education, Science and Innovation Minister Dr Blade Nzimande made a direct link between the country’s plans to produce green hydrogen for export and domestic markets and the Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan (ERRP) when officially unveiling the Hydrogen Society Road Map (HSRM) on... →
Magazine round up | 11 February 2022
11th February 2022 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
Investment needed for SADC’s rail infrastructure to compete with road transport – Derby
By: Donna Slater 4th February 2022 Rail operators in the Southern Africa Development Community region need to jointly and urgently ramp up investments into their respective rail infrastructure to enable trains to move quicker and unhindered, both within their countries and between each other, as a measure to improve trade and... →
Magazine round up | 04 February 2022
4th February 2022 A video round up of this week’s magazine, highlighting our cover story, features and Business Leader. →
Urgent need for projects in R900bn infrastructure pipeline to be made ‘shovel ready’
By: Terence Creamer 3rd February 2022 Consulting Engineers South Africa (Cesa) has urged government to take active steps to fully unlock the much-vaunted R900-billion infrastructure pipeline by ensuring that projects are urgently progressed to “shovel-ready’ status. Newly appointed president Olu Soluade noted on Thursday that, while... →
Policy, admin have a long way to go before ‘open’ energy market can thrive
By: Marleny Arnoldi 2nd February 2022 While State-owned power utility Eskom is in the process of undergoing major structural changes and making strides to play its part in South Africa’s decarbonisation, some stakeholders believe there is more to be done before a just energy transition can be realised. From a regulatory and policy... →
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