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Predicted productivity changes in oceans around Africa
Ocean productivity likely to decline in the future, satellite data shows – CSIR
12th February 2025 By: Schalk Burger

Of 15 global Earth system models of how climate change will impact oceans, those that project a future decline in primary production in oceans correlate most closely with remote sensing satellite... 


R&D funding agency NRF and FirstRand Empowerment Foundation renew their partnership
12th February 2025 By: Rebecca Campbell

South Africa’s research and development funding, human resource development and infrastructure agency, the National Research Foundation (NRF), and the FirstRand Empowerment Foundation (FREF), have... 


Agreement signed to develop R1.8bn rare earth, critical battery elements refining facility in Africa
10th February 2025 By: Darren Parker

South African multidisciplinary asset manager Novare and ReElement Technologies Corporation, a subsidiary of Nasdaq-listed American Resources Corporation, has announced a R1.8-billion rare earth... 


Mashatile, Chikunga mourn death of South Africa’s first black nuclear scientist
10th February 2025 By: Darren Parker

Deputy President and Human Resource Development Council (HRDC) chairperson Paul Mashatile and Minister in the Presidency responsible for Women, Youth, and Persons with Disabilities Sindisiwe... 


EV charging station concept
African Dawn Investments forms partnership to roll out EV chargers, BESSs across South Africa
31st January 2025 By: Darren Parker

Finance company African Dawn Investments has entered into a strategic collaboration with Singapore company WaterCloud International and Chinese original-equipment manufacturer Beny New Energy to... 


iridium
Heraeus partners with Mattiq to develop low-iridium catalysts
31st January 2025 By: Darren Parker

Clean chemistry company Mattiq has entered into a strategic partnership with precious metals company Heraeus Precious Metals to develop and commercialise advanced electrocatalyst materials for... 


Stocks & Strauss close to R400m second University Technology Fund to drive innovation
30th January 2025 By: Schalk Burger

Investment holding company Stocks & Strauss Fund Manager said all agreements for its innovation commercialisation University Technology Fund II (UTF II) have been concluded and a substantial... 


Suiso and Wuhuan Engineering discussing plans
Suiso’s R31.5bn coal-to-fertiliser, methanol project passes BFS stage
30th January 2025 By: Darren Parker

The bankable feasibility study (BFS) for blue ammonia producer Suiso’s R31.5-billion coal-to-fertiliser and methanol project in Kriel, Mpumalanga, was completed earlier this month. The study was... 


EU bank to fund three satellites to improve broadband connectivity in developing countries
29th January 2025 By: Rebecca Campbell

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... 


CSIR researchers developing foundation-phase home language literacy app
28th January 2025 By: Schalk Burger

Researchers at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) are in the research phase of developing an app that helps foundation-phase children to develop literacy skills in their home... 


NRF celebrates 15 years of South Africa-CERN collaboration in physics
27th January 2025 By: Rebecca Campbell

The National Research Foundation (NRF) on Monday highlighted the fifteenth anniversary of the South Africa-European Organisation for Nuclear Research (SA-CERN) Programme. This mark had been... 


Aaniyah Martin
South Africa represented on international STEMM women's expedition to Antarctica
24th January 2025 By: Rebecca Campbell

An expedition composed of 124 women from 24 countries, including South Africa, will depart from Ushuaia, Argentina, next Tuesday (January 28), to gain first-hand experience of the Antarctic. The... 


WEF Centre for Industry and Technology South Africa to be hosted at UP
24th January 2025 By: Schalk Burger

Global economic organisation the World Economic Forum (WEF) will launch four new Centres for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR), including C4IR South Africa, which will be hosted at the... 


Inaugural Gauteng Innovation Showcase set for March
21st January 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

Presented by the Innovation Hub, the inaugural Gauteng Innovation Showcase is set to take place on March 18 in Lynnwood, Pretoria. Under the theme ‘Igniting innovation for Sustainable Growth in... 


UCT researchers announce discovery of a giant, and unusual, radio galaxy
21st January 2025 By: Rebecca Campbell

Scientists from the University of Cape Town (UCT), using South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope array in the Karoo, have discovered a rare giant radio galaxy (GRG). They have named it “Inkathazo”,... 


From left: KBC COO Sian Thurtell; PMC manager in training development and contractor management Mabore Macheru; KBC corporate accounts partner Ruan Janse van Rensburg
KBC launches safety escape room for hands-on HSE training
17th January 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

Health and safety solutions provider KBC Health and Safety has introduced South Africa's first safety escape room, an innovative approach to health, safety and environment (HSE) training. Recently... 


Gerhard Moolman aboard the Osiyeza at sea
Innovative engineering sees Gerhard Moolman row solo across the Atlantic in record time
17th January 2025 By: Darren Parker

Engineer Gerhard ‘Moolies’ Moolman arrived back safely in South Africa on January 10 after successfully completing a 4 050 km trip across the Atlantic ocean on a uniquely engineered rowing boat... 


Vodacom Group, partners to upskill 1m young people in eight African countries
17th January 2025 By: Natasha Odendaal

Vodacom Group has partnered with technology providers AWS, Microsoft, Skillsoft and other collaborating organisations to equip one-million young people across eight African countries with digital... 


South Africa can play a significant role in global technology, sustainability
16th January 2025 By: Natasha Odendaal

The 2025 World Economic Forum, set to be held in Davos from January 20 to 24, provides an unparalleled platform for South Africa to assert itself as a global leader in technology and... 


South African online population expresses optimism about AI - survey
14th January 2025 By: Schalk Burger

Similar to global attitudes becoming more positive about the use of AI, South Africa too demonstrates a growing embrace of AI, with adoption rates and enthusiasm on the rise, a global survey by... 


Sibanye-Stillwater teams up with UJ to launch Simulacrum training facility
Sibanye-Stillwater teams up with UJ to launch Simulacrum training facility
9th January 2025

Sibanye-Stillwater has invested R43-million into the construction of a new Simulacrum undergrounding mining training facility at the University of Johannesburg’s Doornkloof campus. Darren Parker... 


An earlier prototype of the Starship, stacked on top of a Super Heavy launch rocket
SpaceX reports major improvements to its latest Starship prototype, due to fly soon
6th January 2025 By: Rebecca Campbell

US space company SpaceX has announced major upgrades to the latest prototype of its spacecraft, the Starship, which is expected to conduct a test flight soon, possibly as early as Friday. This will... 


Man with laptop at night
PwC survey finds sub-Saharan CEOs are equally, if not more, focused on transformation
9th December 2024 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Consultancy PwC finds in its latest yearly global CEO survey that 81% of CEO’s in Africa took at least one action that greatly impacted on their company’s’ business model in 2023, compared with 76%... 


UP student Rorisang Mahomo
University of Pretoria student provisionally credited with detecting an asteroid
6th December 2024 By: Rebecca Campbell

A third-year student at the University of Pretoria (UP) has been provisionally credited with the detection of an asteroid. Twenty-year-old Rorisang Mahomo, who hails from Lesotho, has had her... 


An image showing Neopak's mill
Neopak extends partnership with ABB to upgrade operations, accelerate digitalisation
5th December 2024 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

Containerboard and paper products manufacturer Neopak has renewed its partnership with global technology company ABB to upgrade the existing automation system at its Rosslyn paper mill, in... 


New study shows how batteries could reduce energy costs for commercial, industrial users
4th December 2024 By: Darren Parker

In a newly released study, climate and energy strategy advisory firm Meridian Economics has determined that optimally sized batteries offer immediate opportunities for many commercial and... 


Johannesburg planetarium relaunches as Wits Anglo American Digital Dome
Johannesburg planetarium relaunches as Wits Anglo American Digital Dome
4th December 2024

The University of the Witwatersrand, in partnership with diversified mining company Anglo American, have relaunched the old Johannesburg Planetarium as the Wits Anglo American Digital Dome, after... 


MeerKAT telescopes
MeerKAT delivers another astronomical triumph, this time involving gravitational waves
4th December 2024 By: Rebecca Campbell

South Africa’s already-renowned MeerKAT radio telescope array, located in the Karoo region in the Northern Cape province, has been the key means of making yet another major scientific breakthrough.... 


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Tech advancements in Africa have greatly advanced ESG, SDG imperatives – panel
29th November 2024 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Technology advancements in Africa are helping to advance various environment, social and governance (ESG) goals for companies and industries, and contribute to the efforts to achieve the UN... 


A photo of the footprints
Fossil footprints in Kenya show two ancient human species coexisted
29th November 2024 By: Reuters

About 1.5-million years ago, individuals of two different species in the human evolutionary lineage trudged on a muddy lakeshore in northern Kenya, leaving behind intersecting trackways alongside... 


DSTI, NRF launch new environmental monitoring network in South Africa
26th November 2024 By: Rebecca Campbell

The National Research Foundation (NRF) has announced that it and its parent Ministry, the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI), have jointly launched a new environmental... 


Deadline looms for comments on framework that will shape South Africa’s AI policy
25th November 2024 By: Natasha Odendaal

Stakeholders have until November 29 to comment on South Africa’s National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy Framework, which will guide the development and adoption of an AI-focused national plan... 


Wits Research and Innovation deputy vice-chancellor Professor Lynn Morris
Wits MIND to collaborate with industry on fundamental AI research
21st November 2024 By: Schalk Burger

The University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) opened a new AI research hub called the Wits Machine Intelligence and Neural Discovery (MIND) Institute on November 19. The institute will focus on... 


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