Rebecca Campbell

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Rebecca Campbell

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

Research group forecasts switch to green long-haul aviation will significantly increase costs

11th March 2024 US-based research and advisory group Lux Research senior director Christopher Robinson has warned that the switch away from fossil-based aviation fuels to environmentally sustainable alternatives could significantly increase the cost of flying, particularly for long-haul flights. He did so in a... →

Airlink suspends flights to Richards Bay after airport downgraded

11th March 2024 South African private-sector domestic and regional airline Airlink announced on Friday evening that it had had to suspend its flights to and from Richards Bay. This followed a decision of the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) regarding safety issues at Richards Bay Airport. SACAA... →

Photo by Leo Johnson/Flight Global
Airlink MD and CEO Rodger Foster

South Africa needs a new defence acquisition and maintenance funding model

8th March 2024 South Africa needs to develop a new funding model to pay for both the acquisition and maintenance of military equipment. So argued South African Aerospace, Maritime and Defence Industries Association (AMD) CE Sandile Ndlovu, in a statement issued on Thursday. This is because the South African... →

Cape Town driving forward with renewable energy, climate resilience programmes

8th March 2024 Last year, Cape Town paid out R25-million to businesses which sold their surplus renewable energy to the city. And, starting this year, private citizens will be able to do the same. These developments were highlighted by Cape Town Executive Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis in an address to the Africa... →

Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis

Trading, transmission key factors in a liberalised South African electricity market

7th March 2024 With the liberalisation of the South African electricity market, energy trading will become increasingly important. So highlighted Investec Project Finance Director Franca Sandham. She was participating in a panel discussion organised by energy transition financial consultancy Green Giraffe... →

World Bank is supporting the rollout of distributed renewable energy in Africa, globally

6th March 2024 Distributed renewable energy (DRE) is going to be essential to achieve the goal of universal access to energy by 2030, both in Africa and globally. So highlighted World Bank Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme lead energy specialist Raihan Elahi, on Wednesday. He was addressing a... →

New fund to finance cross-border electricity transmission in Southern Africa

6th March 2024 The Southern African Power Pool’s (SAPP’s) Regional Transmission Infrastructure Financing Facility (RTIFF) will be managed by climate-focused blended finance fund manager Climate Fund Managers (CFM), it was jointly announced on Tuesday, on the fringes of the 2024 Africa Energy Indaba, in Cape... →

Real progress being made against loadshedding in recent months, says Energy Council CEO

5th March 2024 The number of hours of loadshedding in South Africa has been cut by 67% over the past three-and-a-half months, Energy Council of South Africa CEO James MacKay highlighted on Monday evening. He was participating in an event in Cape Town, hosted by UK innovation agency Innovate UK, and UK... →

Energy Council of South Africa CEO James Mackay

IATA opens the nominations period for the 2024 edition of its Diversity and Inclusion Awards

4th March 2024 The International Air Transport Association (IATA), the global representative body for the airline industry, on Monday opened nominations for its 2024 Diversity and Inclusion Awards. The nomination period will close at 23h59 Central European Time on April 17. This will be the fifth edition of... →

ATNS wins aircraft landing aid system maintenance contract for six South African airports

4th March 2024 South Africa’s national State-owned air traffic management agency, Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS), has been awarded a new five-year contract by another State-owned company, the Airports Company South Africa, to maintain the Instrument Landing Systems (ILS) at six of the latter’s... →

Third locally built patrol ship for the South African Navy 'blessed' in Cape Town

4th March 2024 The third of the South African Navy’s (SAN’s) multi-mission inshore patrol vessels (MMIPVs) was “blessed” at a ceremony in Cape Town, on Friday. The ceremony took place at the facilities of the ship’s builder, Damen Shipyards Cape Town (DSCT). The MMIPV programme was developed and implemented... →

Photo by Damen Shipyards Cape Town
One of the South African Navy’s three new MMIPVs

Dube TradePort air cargo terminal sees demand spike

1st March 2024 Air freight through the Dube TradePort cargo terminal, at King Shaka International Airport, at Durban, spiked sharply during the last quarter of last year, in quarter-on-quarter terms. This quarter-on-quarter increase was 57%, driven by issues at Durban harbour. “This significant increase in... →

Is the era of the flying taxi finally about to dawn?

1st March 2024 The concept of small, usually unconventional, aircraft, carrying small numbers of passengers, weaving their way through towering skyscrapers and speeding over suburbs, has been a staple of especially visual science fiction – films, comic books (now pompously called ‘graphic novels’) and TV series... →

Photo by Wisk Aero
Mockup of the Wisk Aero Gen 6 UAM vehicle

Is the era of the flying taxi finally about to dawn?

1st March 2024 The concept of small, usually unconventional, aircraft, carrying small numbers of passengers, weaving their way through towering skyscrapers and speeding over suburbs, has been a staple of especially visual science fiction – films, comic books (now pompously called ‘graphic novels’) and TV series... →

Photo by Wisk Aero
Mockup of the Wisk Aero Gen 6 UAM vehicle

IATA reports significant improvement in African aviation safety, but more needs to be done

29th February 2024 The global representative body for the airline industry, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), has reported that Africa’s aviation safety performance last year was a significant improvement over that for 2022. The association has released its 2023 Annual Safety Report. African... →

Commercial aviation achieved unprecedentedly high safety levels last year

29th February 2024 Last year saw aviation safety, in several parameters, record its best-ever results, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has reported. IATA, which is the global representative body for the airline industry, has released its 2023 Annual Safety Report. There was not a single fatal... →

IATA director-general Willie Walsh

Zero carbon aviation company demonstrates its complete system for the first time

28th February 2024 US zero carbon-emissions aviation company Universal Hydrogen has announced that it has used one of its proprietary modular liquid hydrogen storage and transport ‘capsules’ to successfully power its megawatt-class fuel cell powertrain. The test was run on the company’s ground-based ‘iron bird’... →

South Africa, Germany sign agreement on labour issues

28th February 2024 The South African Department of Employment and Labour announced on Wednesday that it had signed a Joint Declaration of Interest (JDI) with Germany’s Labour and Social Affairs Department. The JDI coveres four main areas: exchanges regarding general labour market practices, exchanges regarding... →

South African food inflation continued to decelerate in January

27th February 2024 In January, for the second month in a row, South African food and non-alcoholic beverage (NAB) inflation (hereafter to be referred to as food inflation, for short) declined, in year-on-year terms, the Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP) has reported, in its latest ‘Food Inflation... →

Global aviation’s IT company celebrates 75 years of innovation

27th February 2024 Specialist air transport industry information technology (IT) group SITA is currently celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary. It should be noted that the first controlled flight of a powered aircraft, by the Wright brothers, had taken place only 36 years earlier (December 1903) than SITA’s... →

Australian scientists make progress in dealing with hydrogen embrittlement of steel

26th February 2024 Australian researchers have made a step forward in addressing perhaps the biggest single obstacle to the large-scale roll-out of the hoped-for hydrogen economy: hydrogen embrittlement. This is the process whereby hydrogen causes high-strength materials, not least steel, to become brittle and... →

Rolls-Royce highlights its African presence, and delivers record results for 2023

23rd February 2024 UK-based global major propulsion and power systems group Rolls-Royce has highlighted its presence in Africa. It did so in parallel with the release of its full-year results for 2023. The group’s businesses active across the country are Power Systems, Civil Aerospace, and Defence. “We have... →

Transformed AECI to go big globally

23rd February 2024 JSE-listed South African multinational AECI aims to be the global number three company in its core market segment of mining explosives and mining chemicals, by 2030. Of the company’s business, 80% is already outside South Africa and 30% is outside Africa, CEO Holger Riemensperger emphasises to... →

AECI CEO Holger Riemensperger

Transition to the green economy offers great opportunities for women, but problems remain

22nd February 2024 The move to a green economy is a move to a more feminine economy, affirmed KD Strategies founding director Katnisha Singh on Thursday. She was participating in a panel discussion at the Women in the Green Economy breakfast, a function of the Africa Green Economy Summit 2024, being held in Cape... →

Cape Town driving forward with renewable energy, climate resilience programmes

22nd February 2024 Last year, Cape Town paid out R25-million to businesses which sold their surplus renewable energy to the city. And, starting this year, private citizens will be able to do the same. These developments were highlighted by Cape Town Executive Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis in an address to the Africa... →

Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis

World Bank agency guarantees are supporting green energy transition in Africa

21st February 2024 The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) of the World Bank had so far supported 16 renewable energy projects in South Africa, with a total generating capacity of 1.4 GW, reported MIGA VP operations Junaid Ahmad on Wednesday. He was speaking to the 2024 Africa Green Economy Summit,... →

Western Cape already being hit by climate change, seeking to make itself resilient

21st February 2024 The Western Cape is already feeling the effects of climate change, provincial Premier Alan Winde highlighted on Wednesday. He was addressing the Africa Green Economy Summit 2024, in Cape Town. The region’s economy, and so jobs, were being impacted, he said. This is especially so in the... →

Western Cape Premier Alan Winde

MeerKAT radio telescope a beacon of technological development in South Africa

20th February 2024 More than 260 scientific papers have so far been published, using data gathered by South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope array, with 40% of them being published in the past year, highlighted Higher Education, Science and Innovation Mininster Dr Blade Nzimande, in Stellenbosch, on Tuesday. “This... →

Major solar power project in the DRC is now set to start development

19th February 2024 The Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) and SkyPower Global have signed a joint development agreement to implement the first phase of an ultimately 1 000 MW capacity solar power project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). AFC is a multilateral pan-African development finance institution... →

Western Cape agency identifies key aviation trends during 2024

13th February 2024 Western Cape trade, tourism and investment promotion agency Wesgro has identified five key air travel trends for this year. These are, in the agency’s terminology and order, “the race to meet demand”, “promoting the African agenda”, “air cargo’s stabilising trajectory”, “a shift towards tangible... →

Durban’s Dube TradePort air cargo terminal sees demand spike because of harbour issues

13th February 2024 Air freight through the Dube TradePort cargo terminal, at King Shaka International Airport, at Durban, spiked sharply during the last quarter of last year, in quarter-on-quarter terms. This quarter-on-quarter increase was 57%, driven by issues at Durban harbour. “This significant increase in... →

South African satellite control systems company secures venture capital funding

13th February 2024 South African spacecraft attitude determination and control systems (ADCS) developer and manufacturer CubeSpace has secured R47-million in venture capital funding, to allow it to expand its international markets. CubeSpace is a spinout company, from Stellenbosch University, which specialises in... →

CubeSpace CEO Mike-Alec Kearney

Mining’s focus switching to critical minerals, with ESG pressures increasing

12th February 2024 The need to transform the global energy system and to cut carbon emissions, to counter the danger of climate change, is shifting the mining spotlight away from traditional high-value resources, such as gold and diamonds, to what are now being called “critical transition minerals”. So stressed... →

Aviation firm announces inverter technology breakthrough

9th February 2024 UK-US zero carbon emissions aviation company ZeroAvia has announced that the initial testing campaign for its in-house developed 200 kW continuous power inverter has been successfully concluded. Inverters take direct current (DC) power supplied by an electric power source (whether batteries or... →

Proposed underground lab in South Africa moves into project stage

9th February 2024 A proposal to build South Africa’s and Africa’s first underground science laboratory has now moved into the project stage, with the launch of the Paarl Africa Underground Laboratory (PAUL), following a recent science symposium on the concept. Although South African scientists have set up... →

Mining services companies facing climate conundrums

8th February 2024 The need to counter climate change is raising a whole range of important issues for mining services companies, which, in comparison with the mining groups they served, are small in scale. This was highlighted at a function, hosted by environmental consultancy Digby Wells on the fringes of the... →

Barrick highlights importance of socioeconomic development in poor countries

8th February 2024 The need to counter climate change and protect the environment should not distract attention from the need to achieve socioeconomic development in poor countries, Barrick Gold corporate sustainability executive Grant Beringer has cautioned. He was speaking in Cape Town, at a side event of the... →

Global Reporting Initiative formally launches new biodiversity, mining standards

8th February 2024 More than 50% of global gross domestic product was moderately or highly dependent on biodiversity, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) vice chairperson Bola Adeeko highlighted in Cape Town on Thursday. Adeeko, who was also the special projects director for Flour Mills of Nigeria, was speaking at... →

Threat of climate change has transformed the image of mining

7th February 2024 The need to reduce global carbon emissions, to counter climate change, has transformed the public image of the mining industry, because of the urgent need to ramp-up the production of clean energy metals. So highlighted International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) CEO Rohitesh Dhawan,... →

ICMM CEO Rohitesh Dhawan

Transformed AECI to go big globally

7th February 2024 JSE-listed South African multinational AECI aims to be the global number three company in its core market segment of mining explosives and mining chemicals, by 2030. Of the company’s business, 80% is already outside South Africa and 30% is outside Africa, CEO Holger Riemensperger emphasises to... →

AECI CEO Holger Riemensperger

Procurement extortion, copper theft serious issues for South African miners

5th February 2024 One of the major crime problems facing South African mining companies is that of the so-called “construction mafias”, or perhaps more accurately (as far as mining is concerned) “procurement mafias”. That is, organised crime gangs seeking to extort procurement contracts from mining companies,... →

Werner Duvenhage, Dr Mashego Mashego and Stephen Bullock

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