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Mistra executive director Joel Netshitenzhe
Mistra reiterates call for PGMs Exchange as hydrogen economy looms
28th August 2023 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Think tank the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (Mistra) has reiterated its call for the formation of a Platinum Group Metals (PGMs) Exchange in South Africa, given that many... 


Qld invests more into IPP
25th August 2023 By: Esmarie Iannucci

The Queensland government this week pledged a further A$53.5-million to the Industry Partnership Program (IPP) to support new industries. Deputy Premier Steven Miles said the funding would focus... 


Investec - Women in Industry
Investec - Women in Industry
25th August 2023

Diane Frey Position: Investec For Business Account Executive  Date of birth: 29 May, Johannesburg Education: Bachelor of Commerce, University of the Witwatersrand Management style: I lead by... 


Zero emissions aviation company and energy group enter hydrogen supply partnership
24th August 2023 By: Rebecca Campbell

US-UK zero carbon emissions aviation company ZeroAvia and United Arab Emirates (UAE) clean energy group Masdar have entered a partnership to examine the production and supply of hydrogen at key... 


An airlink aeroplane
Airlink obliged to suspend air cargo operations to and from Windhoek
24th August 2023 By: Rebecca Campbell

South African regional airline Airlink has announced that, with immediate effect, it has had to temporarily suspend its air cargo (but not passenger) operations at Windhoek’s Hosea Kutako... 


Global, African airline associations are strengthening their cooperation
23rd August 2023 By: Rebecca Campbell

The African Airlines Association (AFRAA) is joining the Focus Africa Initiative of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), it was announced on Wednesday. IATA and AFRAA will also renew... 


Sasol produced first green hydrogen from Sasolburg electrolyser in June
Sasol produced first green hydrogen from Sasolburg electrolyser in June
23rd August 2023 By: Terence Creamer

JSE-listed energy group Sasol reports that it produced its first green hydrogen in Sasolburg in June, during the commissioning phase of a project to repurpose an operational electrolyser to use... 


A Dassault Falcon 6X
Latest Dassault business jet has been certified in Europe and the US
23rd August 2023 By: Rebecca Campbell

Renowned French aviation company Dassault Aviation’s latest business jet, the Falcon 6X, received its type certification from both the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and the US Federal... 


Airline industry IT company highlights opportunities and risks for industry from AI
21st August 2023 By: Rebecca Campbell

The global air transport industry information technology (IT) and technology solutions company SITA has highlighted the opportunities, as well as the risks, presented to the commercial aviation... 


An artist’s impression of a JetZero BWB aircraft
US company contracted to build first full-scale modern blended wing-body aircraft
17th August 2023 By: Rebecca Campbell

US sustainable aviation startup company JetZero, founded in 2021, has been awarded a $235-million, four-year, contract by the US Air Force (USAF) to design and build a full-scale blended wing-body... 


Paul Calvey
African open skies: How South Africa’s aviation market could help boost intra-continental travel
14th August 2023

By Paul Calvey, Partner and Market Lead at Oliver Wyman The South Africa domestic airline market looks very different now than it did before the COVID-19 pandemic. Some long-established players are... 


Zero carbon emissions aviation company announces compressor breakthrough
10th August 2023 By: Rebecca Campbell

US-UK zero-greenhouse gas emission aviation company ZeroAvia announced on Friday that it had developed a high-performance compressor for hybrid-electric aircraft propulsion systems (that is,... 


IATA reports continuing strong air passenger traffic in June, across the globe
10th August 2023 By: Rebecca Campbell

Air passenger traffic, worldwide, continued its strong recovery in June, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has reported. IATA was the global representative body for the airline... 


South Africa’s air traffic control agency signs agreement with its DRC counterpart
8th August 2023 By: Rebecca Campbell

South Africa’s State-owned air traffic management (ATM) company, Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS), announced on Monday evening that it had entered a commercial agreement with its... 


US discussed 'creative ways' to help landlocked Mongolia export rare earths - officials
7th August 2023 By: Reuters

 US and Mongolian officials this week discussed "creative ways" to ensure the landlocked country, dependent on goodwill from its neighbors China and Russia, could get critical minerals onto the... 


A freighter plane and cargo
Commercial aviation IT provider partners with AI company to help airports reach net-zero 
2nd August 2023 By: Rebecca Campbell

International air transport industry company SITA has announced that it has entered a partnership with Singapore-based Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) technology company Envision Digital.... 


ATNS CEO Nozipho Mdawe.
ATNS signs collaboration agreement with Aireon to advance ADS-B services in Africa
28th July 2023 By: Schalk Burger

South African State-owned Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS) and aviation surveillance technologies company Aireon have signed a cooperation agreement to advance space-based automatic... 


De Beers Group CFO Sarah Kuijlaars.
Strong half-year De Beers production in tough macro environment
28th July 2023 By: Martin Creamer

The De Beers Group faced off tricky macro-economic conditions to record first-half earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) of $0.3-billion, with the diamond... 


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Cape Town to roll out a number of technologies to combat crime
28th July 2023 By: Irma Venter

The City of Cape Town will this year introduce a number of new technologies to combat crime. Some of these technologies may be familiar, such as drones and body cameras, with other perhaps less... 


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Cape Town to roll out a number of technologies to combat crime
28th July 2023 By: Irma Venter

The City of Cape Town will this year introduce a number of new technologies to combat crime. Some of these technologies may be familiar, such as drones and body cameras, with other perhaps less... 


Anglo American CE Duncan Wanblad.
Southern Africa is now Anglo’s only business region not on renewable energy
27th July 2023 By: Martin Creamer

Southern Africa is now the only region in the Anglo American business fold that is not on renewable energy because the company cannot go to a market and acquire that energy in the same way that it... 


Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan
Gordhan welcomes Competition Tribunal ruling on SAA Takatso deal
26th July 2023 By: Rebecca Campbell

The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) has warmly welcomed the decision of the Competition Tribunal to approve the takeover of State-owned South African Airways (SAA) by the Takatso consortium.... 


A South African Airways plane
Competition watchdog approves SAA, Takatso deal - but bars minority shareholders, retrenchments
25th July 2023 By: News24Wire

The Competition Tribunal has approved Takatso Aviation's proposed acquisition of a 51% stake in South African Airways, but has given conditions - including a moratorium on retrenchments as, well as... 


ATNS control tower at OR Thambo
ATNS now using space-based tracking, surveillance system
21st July 2023 By: Darren Parker

South African air navigation service provider Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS) has started using global aircraft tracking and surveillance system manufacturer Aireon’s space-based... 


Hydrogen use in the energy sector
PGMs demand to be underpinned by need for green power-to-X
21st July 2023 By: Schalk Burger

The reduction in demand for platinum group metals (PGMs) owing to the phasing out of internal combustion engines, in response to the need to reduce global greenhouse-gas emissions, should be offset... 


SANEDI welcomes recent Denmark, Netherlands partnership to bolster hydrogen
21st July 2023 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

South Africa’s plan to raise $1-billion to kickstart the country’s hydrogen economy in partnership with Denmark and the Netherlands bodes well for a new energy future, posits the South African... 


Two Rivers platinum group metals operation.
Big platinum group metals pull in return for small fuel cell car market push
20th July 2023 By: Martin Creamer

If fuel cell electric vehicles can capture 10% of the global car market, demand will be created for five-million to six-million ounces of incremental platinum group metals (PGMs) a year, this... 


ZeroAvia’s Dornier Do 228 testbed takes off
Hybrid-electric aircraft company ZeroAvia reports end of its first flight test programme
20th July 2023 By: Rebecca Campbell

US-UK hybrid-electric aircraft propulsion system development company ZeroAvia has reported that it has successfully completed its first flight test programme, using a Dornier Do 228 twin-engined... 


IATA to hold its first integrated safety and operations conference in September
19th July 2023 By: Rebecca Campbell

The International Air Transport Association (IATA), which is the representative body for the global airline industry, has announced that its first World Safety and Operations Conference (WSOC) will... 


IATA, Atkins develop toolkit to calculate embodied carbon in airport construction
17th July 2023 By: Rebecca Campbell

Global airline representative body, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), and design, engineering and project management consultancy company Atkins (part of the SNC-Lavalin Group)... 


FFI's hydrogen plans gets EU boost
17th July 2023 By: Esmarie Iannucci

Green energy developer Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) has been tapped as one of the beneficiaries of the European Commission’s €3.6-billion in funding for clean tech projects. The Commission... 


Image of Lhyfe and Skyborn Renewable's offshore wind farm
South2Port Power-to-X project, Sweden
14th July 2023 By: Sheila Barradas

Skyborn plans to build one of Europe’s biggest hydrogen plants. 


Image of gold pour
Youanmi gold project, Australia – update
14th July 2023 By: Sheila Barradas

Rox Resources has taken full ownership of the project. 


IATA unveils collaboration to assess the financial aspects of reaching net-zero in aviation
12th July 2023 By: Rebecca Campbell

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the Aviation Impact Accelerator (AIA) are to collaborate to evaluate the financial aspects of achieving aviation’s and global governments’... 


Brandon Scholtz
Nuclear Safety - Lessons Learnt from the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
12th July 2023

By Brandon Scholtz from Aon South Africa’s Risk Consulting Division On Friday 11 March 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck just off the East coast of Japan, causing a tsunami that claimed... 


Qld undertakes critical minerals trade mission to Asia
10th July 2023 By: Esmarie Iannucci

The Queensland government will head a trade mission to Japan, South Korea and Singapore to shore up investment in Queensland’s critical minerals, hydrogen and sustainable aviation fuel industries.... 


Image shows a plane being refuelled
FFI moves ahead with green aviation fuel plan
10th July 2023 By: Esmarie Iannucci

Green energy developer Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) has announced plans to progress the further investigation into the development of a green hydrogen manufacturing facility at Marsden Point,... 


Record number of visitors attend Securex South Africa 2023
Record number of visitors attend Securex South Africa 2023
4th July 2023

The turnout at Securex South Africa held from 6 to 8 June 2023, was staggering, with a record number of 6 401 Securex visitors crossing the threshold at Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand. In... 


Weather services are essential to aviation
Latest weather service fees for aviation in South Africa have been published
27th June 2023 By: Rebecca Campbell

South African Forestry, Fisheries and Environment Minister Barbara Creecy on Tuesday published the Regulations concerning the fees to be paid for aviation meteorological services to be provided by... 


Creecy expresses condolences for pilot killed during firefighting operation in Mpumalanga
23rd June 2023 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Minister Barbara Creecy has expressed her condolences to the family of Kishugu Aviation aerial firefighting pilot Justin van As, who lost his life in an... 


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New space agency CEO outlines vision for stimulating local space industry
23rd June 2023 By: Rebecca Campbell

The South African National Space Agency’s (SANSA’s) recently appointed and third confirmed (as distinct from acting) CEO, Humbulani Mudau, is determined to use the solid “launch pad” created under... 


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New space agency CEO outlines vision for stimulating local space industry
23rd June 2023 By: Rebecca Campbell

The South African National Space Agency’s (SANSA’s) recently appointed and third confirmed (as distinct from acting) CEO, Humbulani Mudau, is determined to use the solid “launch pad” created under... 


Brazilian, UK aerospace groups to collaborate in developing aviation fuel cell system
22nd June 2023 By: Rebecca Campbell

Brazil-based global major aerospace group Embraer and UK-based global major Tier 1 aerostructures, engine systems and special products group GKN Aerospace have announced, at the Paris Air Show,... 


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