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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

Airbus launches zero carbon flight centre in UK

17th June 2022

Europe-based global major aerospace group Airbus has announced that it has set up a Zero Emission Development Centre (ZEDC) in the UK. The ZEDC, which is located at Filton, near Bristol, in... 


South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope makes unprecedented discovery yet again

17th June 2022

South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope array has again proven its worth with yet another unprecedented discovery: what appears to be an unusually slowly rotating radio-emitting neutron star. The... 


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Southern African airlines in Catch-22 as costs rise amid fragile demand

17th June 2022

To all practical intents and purposes, the Covid-19 pandemic hit Southern Africa just over two years ago. The pandemic and the measures adopted by the region’s governments to try and counter it... 


Belgium to fund development of advanced small modular nuclear reactors

10th June 2022

The Belgian government has announced that it will provide funding of €100-million for research into advanced small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs). The money will be given to the country’s SCK-CEN... 


South African food inflation slowed a little in April, but still heading up

10th June 2022

South African food (and non-alcoholic beverages) inflation decelerated slightly last month, in both year-on-year (y-o-y) and month-on-month (m-o-m) terms, the Bureau for Food and Agricultural... 


The Sagittarius A* black hole at the centre of our own galaxy

Black hole at centre of the Milky Way successfully imaged

3rd June 2022

The international scientific collaboration known as the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has published the first ever images of the black hole, designated Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), which sits at the... 


Global nuclear body launches commercial hydrogen production roadmap initiative

27th May 2022

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has announced that it is to develop a roadmap for the commercial scale production of hydrogen using nuclear power. This was because hydrogen was... 


Local sustainable aviation fuel production will yield enviro, socioeconomic benefits – WWF SA

20th May 2022

A report compiled for the World Wide Fund for Nature South Africa (better known as WWF SA) has concluded that the local production of sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) would bring major economic... 


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Necsa starts process to replace venerable Safari-1 reactor

13th May 2022

The South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) has, with the approval of Cabinet, started the process that should result in it acquiring a new nuclear research reactor, to replace its current... 


Zambian energy crisis opening way to clean energy for the country and its mines

12th May 2022

The energy crisis in Zambia had created a situation in which the country could combine increasing its electricity generation capacity with a simultaneous transition to low-carbon renewable energy... 


Minerals Council assures it has a strong focus on safety and health in the mining industry

11th May 2022

The Minerals Council South Africa gave a strong assurance, at a media briefing at the Mining Indaba 2022 conference in Cape Town on Wednesday, that it was acting to halt and reverse the regression... 


Innovative technologies being developed in SA and Scandinavia to increase mining’s sustainability

10th May 2022

Innovative technologies to help the mining and minerals processing sectors transition to low-carbon operations and sustainability were the topic at a business breakfast hosted by the Embassies of... 


DRC seeking to encourage investment in mining and local beneficiation

10th May 2022

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Prime Minister Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde has stressed his government’s commitment to responsibly managing the country’s mineral resources, facilitating investment... 


Minerals Council president urges miners to be uncompromising on safety and be inclusive

10th May 2022

Minerals Council of South Africa president Nolitha Fakude has urged South African mining companies to bring their environmental, social and corporate governance (better known as ESG) policies,... 


Zambia President Hakainde Hichilema

Zambian President calls on African leaders to act, not talk, regarding economic development

9th May 2022

Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema has called for African countries to exploit their resources “properly, strategically and cleverly”. He was delivering a keynote address at the first day of the... 


Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe

Mantashe highlights importance and opportunity of mining in Africa

9th May 2022

South African Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe has stressed the need for mining to be used to achieve wider economic development across Africa. He was delivering one of the... 


The eXtra Performance Wing wind-tunnel mode

Airbus concludes wind tunnel tests on nature-mimicking wing design

6th May 2022

Europe-based global major aerospace group Airbus has announced that it has completed wind-tunnel testing of its new wing technology demonstrator, the eXtra Performance Wing. This is part of the... 


Rolls-Royce optimistic its SMR design will be approved quickly

6th May 2022

Rolls-Royce SMR, the UK-based global power and propulsion system manufacturing group Rolls-Royce’s small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) subsidiary, hopes that it will receive UK regulatory approval... 


Part of the core of the MeerKAT array

MeerKAT makes a ‘big boss’ of a discovery

29th April 2022

An international group of scientists from Australia, Chile, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, the UK and the US as well as from South Africa, have made a... 


SANDF exploiting modern technologies against extremists in Mozambique

29th April 2022

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Mission in Mozambique (SAMIM) was seeking to use modern technology to help defeat Islamist extremists in the Cado Delgado province in north east... 


UK goes big on nuclear, offshore wind for its future and secure low-carbon energy

22nd April 2022

The UK officially confirmed on Thursday that, to ensure the country’s energy security and independence, while also moving more rapidly to achieving net-zero carbon emissions energy, it was going to... 


Food inflation accelerates again, and could get much worse, warns research group

15th April 2022

Food inflation in South Africa continues to accelerate, the Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP) has reported. In its 'Food Inflation Brief' for February, released on Wednesday, it notes... 


New Nasa human lunar lander strategy good news for SpaceX and its rivals

8th April 2022

The US National Aeronautics and Space Agency (Nasa) announced on Wednesday that it had adopted a two-pronged approach to the development of future astronaut lunar lander spacecraft, to be developed... 


India continues with major nuclear energy development programme

6th April 2022

India currently had ten nuclear reactors under construction and had authorised the construction of another ten. The country had also imported 7 546 t of natural uranium ore concentrate and 56.78 t... 


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Agriculture continues to outperform nearly all other sectors of South Africa’s economy

1st April 2022

Over the past two years the agriculture sector has been one of the few very stars in the firmament of the South African economy. In 2020 and 2021, agriculture was one of only four sectors of the... 


Re-establishment of SA’s air services councils welcomed

25th March 2022

The announcement that the South African government had appointed new air services councils was welcomed by the local commercial aviation sector on Thursday. There were two such councils, the... 


Necsa extends deadline for research reactor RFI responses

18th March 2022

The South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) announced on Sunday that it was extending the deadline for responses to its Request for Information (RFI) regarding its Multi-Purpose Reactor... 


Space agency CEO has resigned

18th March 2022

The South African National Space Agency (Sansa) announced on Monday that its CEO, Dr Val Munsami, had resigned. His resignation also took effect on Monday, although it was apparently submitted some... 


Technology development and transfer network for Africa proposed

18th March 2022

To stimulate development and innovation across Africa, an ‘African Technology Development and Transfer Network’ should be created. This was the proposal of Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)... 


First Generation III+ nuclear reactors suffer further delays

11th March 2022

US electricity utility Georgia Power has announced a further delay and a significant cost increase in its Vogtle nuclear power plant (NPP) expansion project. Vogtle (full name: Alvin W Vogtle... 


Kenyan operator becomes launch customer for new Airbus freighter aircraft conversion

4th March 2022

Kenya-based specialist air cargo operator Astral Aviation will be the first carrier to operate the Airbus A320P2F freighter aircraft. The suffix P2F means ‘passenger to freighter’ and means that... 


The Tecnam P2010 H3PS in flight

First hybrid-powered general aircraft has been successfully flown

4th March 2022

UK power and propulsion technologies group Rolls-Royce and Italian aircraft manufacturer Tecnam, in conjunction with Austrian leisure and sports craft propulsion systems company BRP-Rotax,... 


UK funding demonstrator for a new hydrogen storage technology, conceived in Australia

25th February 2022

The UK government’s Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has awarded funding for a safe hydrogen storage and transport technology demonstrator. The technology was developed by an... 


Airline body’s latest survey shows sector’s recovery is continuing

25th February 2022

The International Air Transport Association (Iata) has communicated that airline Chief Financial Officers and heads of cargo surveyed over the period December 2021 and January 2022 have reported... 


Necsa starts process to replace its Safari-1 reactor

25th February 2022

On Sunday the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (Necsa) released its Request for Information (RFI) for a new multipurpose (nuclear) research reactor (MPR). This is intended to replace the... 


CSIR CEO Dr Thulani Dlamini

Thulani Dlamini reappointed CSIR head

18th February 2022

The current CEO of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Dr Thulani Dlamini, has been reappointed to the position, for a second five-year term. Dlamini started his first term... 


A pair of Laza-powered micro-ornithopter wings

UK engineers develop new way to power micro-UAVs with flapping wings

18th February 2022

Researchers in the Faculty of Engineering in the University of Bristol, in England, in the UK, have developed a new technology to propel micro-uncrewed air vehicles (UAVs) which, like birds and... 


French energy group joins UAE green hydrogen aviation fuel project

11th February 2022

French global major energy group TotalEnergies has joined United Arab Emirates (UAE) sustainable and clean energy company Masdar and Germany’s Siemens Energy, in a project to use green hydrogen to... 


This image shows a small part of the new image of the Galactic core, with the supernova remnant G359.1-0.5 in the centre. The bright object to the left is a ‘runaway’ pulsar, known as ‘the Mouse’. In the upper right is one of the longest known radio filaments, called ‘the Snake’

MeerKAT secures unprecedented image of Galactic core

11th February 2022

South Africa’s already world-renowned MeerKAT radio telescope array, located in the Karoo region of the Northern Cape province, has again ‘delivered the goods’. An international team has released... 


Uganda Airlines boasts average aircraft age of only 1.95 years

4th February 2022

International airline intelligence, data and news company ch-aviation has announced that Uganda Airlines has been identified as the operator of the youngest airliner fleet in the world, for the... 


The ‘Spirit of Innovation’ aircraft

World air speed records for Rolls-Royce-led electric aircraft officially confirmed

4th February 2022

Renowned UK-based propulsion and technology systems group Rolls-Royce announced on Thursday that its ‘Spirit of Innovation’ technology demonstrator aircraft had been officially declared the world’s... 


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