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LONG DAWN
17th August 2018 South Africa continues to speak hopefully about a New Dawn. However, Australia, which shares a number of similar characteristics, from mining and weather, to sporting appetites, recently marked what could arguably described as a long dawn. The country recently recorded its twenty-seventh straight... →
READY TO ROLL
10th August 2018 Chinese vehicle manufacturer the Beijing Automotive Group (BAIC) officially opened its 88 969 m2 semi-knocked-down vehicle assembly plant in the Coega Industrial Development Zone, near Port Elizabeth, late last month. Presidents Cyril Ramaphosa and Xi Jinping presided over the launch via a live... →
LONG ROAD AHEAD
3rd August 2018 Eskom CEO Phakamani Hadebe only just managed to guide the utility through to the there end of its horrific 2018 financial year, during which it nearly run of cash and almost had its bonds suspended. The journey ahead for Hadebe remains equally treacherous, as has already been seen from the false... →
BIG SCIENCE
27th July 2018 Situated near the town of Carnarvon, in the Northern Cape, Antenna 47 (pictured above) lies within the outer limits of the greater 64-dish MeerKAT radio telescope, inaugurated on July 13 by Deputy President David Mabuza and Science and Technology Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane. The MeerKAT is... →
CLOUDS GATHER
20th July 2018 Trade tensions continued to rise between the US and China this month, with President Donald Trump imposing new tariffs and China retaliating. Bloomberg reports that China has told companies to boost imports of goods – from soybeans to seafood and automobiles – from countries other than the US... →
RESERVED PARKING
13th July 2018 General Motors has installed 18 fast chargers for its Cruise self-driving car unit at a parking facility on San Francisco's Embarcadero, a busy boulevard along the Californian city's eastern shoreline. General Motors has created its own ride-hailing platform and is aiming get its self-driving car... →
TRADE CROSSROADS
6th July 2018 The American-led trade war rhetoric, which has now led to the imposition of restrictions worth billion of dollars, is having an impact on various markets, from steel to soybeans. Soybean (pictured in the top segment of the photograph above) futures were among the biggest losers in late June,... →
HIGH PERFORMANCE
29th June 2018 Porsche South Africa joined the international Porsche-loving community in celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the sports-car brand. Several thousand Porsche owners converged on the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit, in Gauteng, to mark the occasion, which include various events and races. Porsche... →
MILK TO WATER
22nd June 2018 Nestlé South Africa launched an innovative water-saving facility at its Mossel Bay, in the Western Cape, earlier this month. The investment enables the facility to use water recovered from the factory’s milk-evaporation process and could save 168-million litres of water a year. Nestlé undertook... →
AUTONOMOUS ADVANTAGE
15th June 2018 Singapore has built a mini town designed to position it favourably in the global race to deploy driverless public transport. The 2 ha complex has intersections, traffic lights, bus stops and pedestrian crossings, all built to Singapore’s public-roads specifications. Pictured above is a Navya SAS... →
ELECTRIC MULTICOPTER
8th June 2018 Pictured above is a Volocopter 2X multirotor electric helicopter standing in a hangar at in Bruchsal, Germany. The German air-taxi startup designs and builds manned electric helicopters. The company states that the Volocopter is the first fully electric and manned multicopter with a permit to fly. →
ENERGY COLLECTOR
1st June 2018 The 100 MW XiNa Solar One concentrated solar power plant was officially inaugurated by Energy Minister Jeff Radebe last month. The plant, which is located near Pofadder in the Northern Cape, uses parabolic-trough technology (pictured) to generate dispatchable power from the sun. To produce... →
CRUNCH TIME
25th May 2018 The National Energy Regulator of South Africa’s (Nersa’s) hearings into Eskom’s three Regulatory Clearing Account submissions, amounting to more than R66-billion, wrapped up in Gauteng last week. The Eskom team (pictured on the left during hearings in Soweto) were heavily grilled by the Nersa... →
WAR TALK
18th May 2018 South Africa has already become something of a casualty in the brewing trade war between the US and China. However, should President Donald Trump’s trade-war rhetoric and initial actions escalate into a full-blown conflict, it is likely that the pain could spread well beyond the steel and... →
PROTECTIVE COIL
11th May 2018 The decision by US President Donald Trump to impose tariff protection on steel and aluminium imports has been heavily criticised both domestically and internationally. South Africa, which offered to restrict its exports to 2017 levels, expressed disappointment at not being exempted on April 30,... →
CONCRETE REDEVELOPMENT
4th May 2018 The redevelopment of the old grain silos at Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront into what is today the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa involved some quite innovative design, engineering and construction work. However, it also required specialised concrete, which was supplied and sponsored by... →
CRUCIAL CROSSROADS
27th April 2018 China's sprawling local government financing system needs “crucial” reforms to increase consumption, build prosperity and encourage economic rebalancing, the International Monetary Fund said earlier this month. Pictured in the aerial photograph above are vehicles travelling along highways at an... →
ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA
20th April 2018 Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg pictured during a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees in Washington, DC, which took place on April 10. Zuckerberg said he took responsibility how the social network had been improperly used for political means and promised that... →
FIGHTING CHANCE
13th April 2018 President Cyril Ramaphosa speaking at the launch of the Youth Employment Service (YES) initiative on March 27. YES is a social compact between government, business and labour “created to give one-million youth one-million opportunities to succeed”. For South Africa’s sake, it’s vital that the... →
FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY
6th April 2018 Given the seemingly wet summer season for the eastern side of the country, some provinces may have been lulled into a false sense of water security and abundance. The reality is that South Africa – and not only the Western, Eastern and Northern Cape provinces – is a water-scare country.... →
XI–LI CONSOLIDATION
30th March 2018 China premier Li Keqiang, left, shakes hands with Xi Jinping, China’s president, following parliament’s approving of Li's appointment to a second five-year term during the first session of the thirteenth National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on March 18. Li... →
ONCE A POWER WALL
23rd March 2018 Batteries on display on as a sorting reference at the Raw Materials Company recycling facility in Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada. Bloomberg reports that Ontario recycles more single-use batteries than any other state in North America, nearly 3 226 t in 2016 alone. →
HYDROGEN ROLL-OUT
16th March 2018 A hydrogen fuel pump stands at a TrueZero station in Mill Valley, California. Bloomberg reports that the US is spending more than $2.5-billion to accelerate sales of hydrogen and battery vehicles. That includes $900-million earmarked to complete 200 hydrogen stations and 250 000 charging stations... →
NO TERM LIMIT
9th March 2018 Moves under way in China to cast aside presidential term limits stoked global concern last week. Some are already referring to President Xi Jinping as ‘Emperor Xi’. What the decision means for the way China interacts with the rest of the world and its citizens, such as these Shanghai residents... →
ROBOTIC SORTING
2nd March 2018 An automated transport robot is pictured moving between shelving units containing goods at Amazon.com’s new fulfillment centre in Kolbaskowo, Poland. Bloomberg reports that academic and commercial roboticists have been putting a lot of energy into solving what’s sometimes referred to as the... →
FRESH START
23rd February 2018 The election in Parliament of Cyril Ramaphosa as the fifth President of South Africa’s democratic era is an opportunity for a fresh start. Much will hinge, though, on his ability to convince business and labour to make the contributions and sacrifices needed to help realise his ‘New Deal’. To do... →
AERIAL ARTISTRY
16th February 2018 The Indonesian Air Force Jupiter aerobatics team performs manoeuvres at the Singapore Airshow, Asia’s largest, which was held at the Changi Exhibition Centre in Singapore, last week. The show included daily flying displays from renowned aerobatic teams. Photograph →
NEW FRAMEWORK
9th February 2018 Straight-shooting businessperson Jabu Mabuza intends bringing a back-to-basics ethos to Eskom that he arguably learned while operating in South Africa’s hyper-competitive taxi market. Speaking at the embattled group’s delayed interim results presentation last week, Mabuza suggested that he had... →
WARM EMBRACE
2nd February 2018 South African Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago may have been feeling the cold in Davos, Switzerland, last week, where he participated in the World Economic Forum. However, the rest of the world has embraced him warmly, with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) having appointed Kganyago as... →
LET'S CHAT
26th January 2018 An attendee stands in front of a screen displaying QR codes for various programs and services at Tencent Holdings’ WeChat Open Class Pro conference in Guangzhou, China, earlier this month. The WeChat social network, which is nearly ubiquitous in China, has some 580 000 mini-programs in operation.... →
BLOWING THE GLOOM AWAY
19th January 2018 Rational energy policymaking has been extremely elusive for more than two years, during which an atmosphere of gloom enveloped South Africa’s once-lauded renewables procurement programme. The election of Cyril Ramaphosa as the new president of the African National Congress is expected to breath... →
BRAND FORCE
15th December 2017 Japanese automotive group Nissan used the Los Angeles Auto Show, in California, to draw attention to its brand with a fleet of seven Star Wars-themed vehicles. In this photograph, actors dressed as Stormtroopers stand alongside the AT-M6 Titan concept vehicle. The vehicles were used to promote... →
TOXIC BROADCAST
8th December 2017 A pedestrian, wearing a surgical mask, turns to watch a television screen while walking in Tokyo, Japan, on November 29. The television channel was broadcasting North Korea Leader Kim Jong Un’s announcement of yet another ballistic missile launch, shattering a two-month period of relative quiet.... →
AFTER THE PARTY
1st December 2017 Zimbabweans celebrated wildly after President Robert Mugabe resigned on November 21, after 37-years in power. There is little question that the his departure offers a genuine opportunity to rebuild a country and an economy that still holds so much promise, not least because of the education and... →
SUFFOCATING SMOG
24th November 2017 Shrouded in smog, pedestrians walk past the iconic India Gate monument in New Delhi, India. Thick toxic smog enveloped the capital city earlier this month, forcing schools to shut down, halting traffic on highways and sending residents scurrying to buy air purifiers and filtration masks. →
DÉJÀ VU
17th November 2017 Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba addressing staff at Airways Park, alongside the OR Tambo International Airport, last week. Reporting back after the first meeting of the new South African Airways board, Gigaba (who made a similar input to staff during his time as Public Enterprises Minister)... →
ELECTRIC JOLT FOR GHOST TOWN
10th November 2017 Global demand for cobalt, a component in batteries used to power electric cars for automakers from Tesla to Volkswagen, is changing the importance of the metal. Pictured above is a town sign is displayed in downtown Cobalt, Ontario, Canada. The town, and the metal after which it is named, are... →
YEAR OF TAMBO
3rd November 2017 Ambassador Thembi Tambo, in dark glasses, stands between President Jacob Zuma and her brother, Dali Tambo, who is himself flanked by his son, Oliver Tambo, at the unveiling last month of a statue of the late Oliver Reginald Tambo. The 2.5-m tall statue of the former African National Congress... →
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