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            <description><![CDATA[Mutual insurance provider Rand Mutual Assurance (RMA) used its presence at A-OSH Expo 2026 to highlight its evolution from a traditional workers’ compensation provider into a broader social insurer focused on prevention, rehabilitation and worker wellbeing. Speaking to Engineering News, RMA prevention head Dr Jessica Hutchings and prevention programme manager Ronwin Goliath said the company’s integrated approach seeks to prevent workplace incidents before compensation becomes necessary.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The world stainless association (worldstainless) has elected new office bearers during the thirtieth annual conference and meeting held in Johannesburg, Gauteng, with Acerinox Group CEO Bernardo Velázquez Herreros elected chairperson. Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel Corporation executive officer, head of unit, stainless steel and titanium Yosuke Sakai, stainless steel producer Aperam CEO Sudhakar Sivaji and South Korean industrial group Posco head of STS marketing office Ji-eun Lee have been elected as vice chairpersons.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Parks Tau says the themes of decarbonisation, diversification, and digitalisation will now anchor South Africa’s Industrial Development Strategy, following its recent approval by Cabinet. Describing the strategy as a consistent and forward-looking policy during his Budget Vote address in Parliament on Tuesday, Tau said it would direct the country’s industrialisation agenda.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[In the ten months between July last year and April this year, the City of Cape Town’s (CoCT’s) Metal Theft Unit made 88 arrests and recovered more than a kilometre of stolen cable and more than 800 kg of stolen metal. The unit also completed 5 979 patrols in hotspot areas, executed 1 257 scrapyard compliance inspections, responded to 423 complaints from the public, and issued 3 095 fines for various by-law transgressions.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa has officially raised import protection across a wide range of upstream and downstream steel products by between 10% and 30% – rates that are in line with the World Trade Organisation (WTO) ‘bound rate’, or the legally permitted maximum import tariff rate that can be applied by a member country. The adjustments, which have been signalled for some time, were published in the Government Gazette by the South African Revenue Service on May 15 and signed by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Diversified miner South32’s Hillside Aluminium smelter in Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal, could continue operating for another 20 to 30 years if a competitive long-term electricity agreement is secured with State-owned power utility Eskom. This was stated by South32 executives at a gala event to celebrate the smelter's 30 years in operation.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[While technically resilient, the South African metal fabrication sector is structurally constrained, with its future contingent on its embracing modernisation, sustainability and skills development. The sector remains a cornerstone of the industrial economy, contributing an estimated 20% to 25% of total manufacturing output and about 4% to 5% of national GDP, says statutory body Engineering Council of South Africa Investigation Committee chairperson and professional society South African Institution of Chemical Engineers (SAIChE) council member Dr Natisha Gareeb.]]></description>
            <author>Nadine Ramdass</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Nelson Mandela University (NMU) Faculty of Science's Centre for High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy (CHRTEM) has received the first of two new scanning electron microscopes (SEMs) from manufacturer Japan Electron Optical Laboratories (JEOL). A second, larger SEM is scheduled for delivery in May.]]></description>
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