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Rebecca Campbell

Rebecca Campbell

Rebecca Campbell is Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor for Engineering News and Mining Weekly.

By Rebecca Campbell

IATA launches new body to oversee its global Sustainable Aviation Fuels Registry

24th March 2025

The global representative body for the air transport sector, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), has announced that the Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Registry that it has... 


Mark van Wyk with the Dragonfly V

South African zero-emissions UAV to be launched onto the market this year

21st March 2025

South African zero-emissions aviation startup company FlyH2 Aerospace (FlyH2) has announced that its prototype uncrewed aerial vehicle, the Dragonfly V (five) is successfully continuing its flight... 


Public Works Minister promises to reform the EPWP and champion it

20th March 2025

In a speech delivered in Upington in the Northern Cape province, Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson has committed himself to reforming the country’s Expanded Public Works... 


Research team leader Dr Yaseera Ismail

Stellenbosch researchers partner in record-breaking quantum communications link

20th March 2025

Stellenbosch University (SU) Physics Department researchers, working in collaboration with Chinese colleagues at the University of Science and Technology of China, have successfully established the... 


An Embraer ERJ140 of Airlink

Airlink announces a new regional route, additional services to two other regional routes

19th March 2025

South African regional and domestic airline Airlink has announced the start of a new route, and the increase of frequencies on two other routes. All three are regional ones. The new route is from... 


South African global business services sector seeks to attract more foreign investment

18th March 2025

South Africa’s national global business services sector representative body, Business Process Enabling South Africa (BPESA) on Tuesday launched its refreshed sector value proposition. This is... 


Aircraft flying over a runway

Single African Air Transport Market is beyond rescue, says outgoing airline CEO

18th March 2025

Upheavals in global political and trade relations mean that the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) initiative has run out of time, asserted outgoing South African regional and domestic... 


Airlink CEO and MD Rodger Foster

Outgoing South African airline CEO blasts ATNS for creating a 'serious safety risk'

17th March 2025

In a hard-hitting and wide-ranging final speech to the Board of Airline Representatives of South Africa (the representative body for international, regional and local airlines and ground handlers... 


The open steam autoclave manufactured by Cyclotherm

Local manufacturing company reports that it is near the end of a major autoclave project

14th March 2025

Johannesburg-based South African thermal systems manufacturing company Cyclotherm Boilers has proudly announced that it has almost completed a “landmark project”. This involved the design,... 


The George airport runway

Two South African airports win awards at international event

14th March 2025

Two of Airports Company South Africa’s (ACSA’s) airports received awards at the Airports Council International World’s 2024 Airport Service Quality (ASQ) Experience Awards, ACSA has announced. The... 


UN Development Programme resident representative in South Africa and director of the Africa Sustainable Development Hub Maxwell Gomera

Africa could be a world leader in the green economy – if it makes the right decisions

14th March 2025

Sustainability was not just an environmental need, it was an economic necessity. So asserted UN Development Programme resident representative in South Africa and director of the Africa Sustainable... 


South Africa agricultural exports to Africa grew strongly last year

11th March 2025

South African agricultural exports to Africa increased by 16% in the fourth quarter of last year (Q4 2024), compared with the Q4 2023, the Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP) reported,... 


Agricultural exports were stagnant in the fourth quarter, but remained important

11th March 2025

Agriculture accounted for nearly 20% of South Africa’s exports during the fourth quarter of last year, the Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP) thinktank has highlighted, in its latest... 


Qatar Airways aircraft

Qatar Airways increases frequency of flights to four African destinations

11th March 2025

Global major airline Qatar Airways announced on Monday that it has increased the frequency of its services to four of its destinations in Africa, including one in South Africa. The destinations... 


Western Cape, National Business Initiative, sign MoU on climate change and growth

7th March 2025

The Western Cape provincial government signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the National Business Initiative (NBi) on Thursday afternoon, to establish a new climate and economic... 


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New defence review needed to tackle widening SANDF funding and capacity gaps

7th March 2025

In late January, in fighting in the city of Goma and surrounding districts, in North Kivu province, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), 14 South African soldiers were killed. The... 


Magazine cover image

New defence review needed to tackle widening SANDF funding and capacity gaps

7th March 2025

In late January, in fighting in the city of Goma and surrounding districts, in North Kivu province, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), 14 South African soldiers were killed. The... 


Food inflation now has a heavier weighting in the calculation of South African CPI inflation

6th March 2025

In January, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) increased the weight of food and non-alcoholic beverage (NAB) prices in the calculation of the country’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation, the... 


A cup of sugar

South African food inflation slowed in January

6th March 2025

South African food and non-alcoholic beverage (NAB) inflation (hereafter to be referred to simply as food inflation, for short) in January remained, for the eleventh consecutive month, below the... 


A woman cooking maize

Transitioning to clean energy of great importance to African women – Graham-Maré

5th March 2025

Transitioning to the use of clean energy, and in particular clean energy for cooking, is especially important for women in Africa. So highlighted South African Electricity and Energy Deputy... 


Solar panels

International upheavals will affect Africa’s energy development and needs a joint response

4th March 2025

The world, including Africa, is facing a major international political event of “seismic proportions”, South African Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa highlighted in his... 


Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa

Diversified energy resources needed to ensure energy security for Africa, South Africa – Ramakgopa

4th March 2025

South Africa, and Africa as a whole, had to make use of diversified energy resources, to enhance energy security. This was one of the points highlighted by South African Electricity and Energy... 


Mark van Wyk with the Dragonfly V

South African zero-emissions UAV to be launched onto the market this year

3rd March 2025

South African zero-emissions aviation startup company FlyH2 Aerospace (FlyH2) has announced that its prototype uncrewed aerial vehicle, the Dragonfly V (five) is successfully continuing its flight... 


Global air passenger traffic demand accelerated in January

28th February 2025

January saw a 10% increase, in year-on-year (y-o-y) terms, in total global air passenger traffic. This was reported by the global representative body for the airline industry, the International Air... 


An aeroplane being loaded with cargo

Global air cargo demand continued to grow in January, but at a more moderate rate

28th February 2025

Total global air cargo demand continued to grow in January, for the eighteenth consecutive month, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) reports. (IATA is the global representative body... 


An SAA branded aeroplane

Creecy announces new SAA Group CEO and explains appointment process

27th February 2025

Transport Minister Barbara Creecy announced on Thursday that Professor John Lamola had been appointed the new Group CEO (GCEO) of State-owned airline South African Airways (SAA). Lamola’s... 


UK development finance agency is anchor investor for new South African development fund

26th February 2025

South African black-owned and -managed impact investment management and licensed financial services provision group Summit Africa announced on Wednesday that its Summit Private Equity Fund (SPEF)... 


Deputy Minister for Public Service and Administration, in the Presidency, Pinky Sharon Kekane, addressing the 2025 Women in the Green Economy breakfast

Women are playing a leading role in green economy innovation

21st February 2025

“Our planet is at a crossroads,” affirmed Presidency Deputy Public Service and Administration Minister Pinky Sharon Kekane in an address at the Women in the Green Economy breakfast, at Africa’s... 


The green economy is real and offers real opportunities for Africa

21st February 2025

“You see the whole world focused on climate, and focusing on Africa,” highlighted Sanlam Investments CEO Carl Roothman in his address on the second day of Africa’s Green Economy Summit (AGES) 2025,... 


Southern Palladium executive chairperson Roger Baxter

International investors showing interest in South African PGMs – Baxter

21st February 2025

Southern Palladium executive chairperson Roger Baxter has reported that interest in investing in South African mining projects is re-emerging on North American bourses. He was talking to... 


Sasol's head office in South Africa

Sasol seriously working on biofuel projects, especially for mining applications

21st February 2025

South African petrochemicals giant Sasol is actively examining second-generation biofuel feedstocks – that is, energy crops – assured the group’s Sustainable Carbon Solutions Head, Ken Sarman, on... 


UN Development Programme resident representative in South Africa and director of the Africa Sustainable Development Hub Maxwell Gomera

Africa could be a world leader in the green economy – if it makes the right decisions

20th February 2025

Sustainability was not just an environmental need, it was an economic necessity. So asserted UN Development Programme resident representative in South Africa and director of the Africa Sustainable... 


AfDB Climate Change and Green Growth Department director Anthony Nyong

Although global challenges exist, Africa has great opportunities in meeting climate change 

20th February 2025

Although the world is today facing critical challenges, there are great opportunities for Africa to be a leader in countering climate change. So affirmed Côte d’Ivoire-based African Development... 


Kenya, Ethiopia becoming major players in global air transported flower trade

18th February 2025

Kenya is now the number three exporting country in the global air transported flower trade, the International Air Transport Association (IATA – the global representative body for the airline... 


Wits University highlights its measures to help financially hard-pressed students

18th February 2025

The University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), located in Johannesburg, on Tuesday highlighted the measures it is taking to assist its students. Funding for their studies is a pressing concern for... 


PTI calls for greater adoption of international tyre safety standards

17th February 2025

Recently accredited tyre testing facility, the Product Testing Institute (PTI), based in Coega, Gqeberha, in the Eastern Cape province, has, by means of a letter, urged Transport Minister Barbara... 


IATA and 123Carbon agree to develop interoperability between their SAF registries

14th February 2025

The global representative body of the airline industry, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), and independent carbon insetting platform 123Carbon have agreed to make their respective... 


Wesgro CEO Wrenelle Stander

Western Cape seeks to deepen economic ties with the EU

14th February 2025

Western Cape provincial trade, tourism and investment promotion agency Wesgro has highlighted its latest EU Trade and Investment Breakfast, which took place on Tuesday. This was arranged in... 


An airport runway

Renewed concerns about SA aviation infrastructure

14th February 2025

The Airlines Association of Southern Africa (AASA) has again expressed frustration and concern about repeated failures in South Africa’s aviation infrastructure. It has pointed out that Airports... 


2024 set a new record for air cargo demand – IATA

14th February 2025

The International Air Transport Association (IATA), which is the global representative body for the airline industry, has reported that 2024 was a record year for air cargo, beating the previous... 


EIB to fund 3 satellites for broadband in developing countries

14th February 2025

EIB Global, the extra-European arm of the European Investment Bank (EIB), has signed a loan agreement with Luxembourg-based satellite-enabled connectivity and content solutions provider SES, to... 


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