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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

3D printing facility opened in Cape Town

14th April 2023

Newly-established contract additive and advanced manufacturing services company Evanswerks Creative Lab officially opened its Cape Town factory on Thursday. The company is the product of foreign... 


Norwegian, Egyptian companies to collaborate on green hydrogen projects

7th April 2023

Norway-based international independent risk management and assurance group DNV has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Egypt-based regional engineering-procurement-construction (EPC)... 


UK financier to inject €20m into new fund for green African urban development

7th April 2023

UK State development finance institution British International Investment (BII) has announced that it is committing €20-million to the Meridiam Group’s TURF (The Urban Resilience Fund), which is... 


The UKZN ASRI team place the Phoenix-1D upon its launcher

University of KwaZulu-Natal group successfully launches suborbital demonstration rocket

7th April 2023

South Africa’s Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation announced on Wednesday that a research group at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) has successfully launched a suborbital... 


African financial institutions will continue to fund fossil fuel projects on the continent

31st March 2023

While Africa is part of the global transition to low carbon energy, the consumption of oil and gas on the continent will increase, at least in the short term. So observed Standard Bank executive... 


IPP Office head Bernard Magoro

IPP Office, Eskom in discussions on navigating grid constraints ahead of next renewables round

31st March 2023

There were two main challenges South Africa faced, in addressing its inadequate electricity generation capacity, Independent Power Producers (IPP) Office Head Bernard Magoro highlighted at the... 


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Single air transport market could add impetus to lagging recovery of African carriers

31st March 2023

The post-Covid-19-pandemic recovery of the African airline industry is lagging behind that of other regions of the world, but it is recovering, International Air Transport Association (IATA)... 


An artist’s impression of Angeo-1 in orbit

Angola orders advanced Earth observation satellite

24th March 2023

The West African State of Angola has ordered an S250 optical Earth observation satellite (EOS) from Airbus Defence and Space, part of the Europe-based global major aerospace and defence group... 


Universal Hydrogen’s modified Dash 8 testbed aircraft

Largest fuel-cell-powered aircraft to date has made successful first flight

24th March 2023

A new record has been set for the largest aircraft yet to be flown with a hydrogen fuel cell propulsion system. The new record was set by US company Universal Hydrogen, using a modified... 


Renewables and hydrogen infrastructure

Namibia stresses green hydrogen ambitions, plans

24th March 2023

The south west African Republic of Namibia sought to become the sustainability hub of Africa and aimed to become the first carbon-neutral country on the continent. This was highlighted on Wednesday... 


Norwegian, Egyptian companies to collaborate on green hydrogen projects in Egypt

22nd March 2023

Norway-based international independent risk management and assurance group DNV has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Egypt-based regional engineering-procurement-construction (EPC)... 


Cargo is unloaded from an DHL Express freighter

DHL Express launches logistics carbon emissions reduction initiative for its customers

17th March 2023

Logistics company DHL Express South Africa announced on Wednesday that, with effect from this month, the global DHL Express group’s GoGreen Plus initiative would be available to South African... 


Hive Energy announces Chile green hydrogen project

17th March 2023

UK-based green energy company Hive Energy (Hive), which has a major green hydrogen and green ammonia project pipeline in South Africa, has announced that it has entered a joint venture (JV) with... 


SunSat-1, on a ground handling trolley

SA space agency celebrates 24th anniversary of launch of country’s first satellite

17th March 2023

The South African National Space Agency (Sansa) on Thursday commemorated the 24th anniversary of the launch of SunSat-1, on an American Delta II rocket from the then Vandenberg Air Force Base (now... 


IPP Office head Bernard Magoro

IPP Office, Eskom in talks about navigating grid constraints ahead of next renewables round

13th March 2023

There were two main challenges South Africa faced, in addressing its inadequate electricity generation capacity, Independent Power Producers (IPP) Office Head Bernard Magoro highlighted at the... 


A photo of solar panels

Progress being made in reforming South African electricity sector, assures Presidency official

13th March 2023

Major changes were indeed under way in the country’s electricity sector, South African Presidency project management head Rudi Dicks assured the RES4Africa Energy Security Conference in Cape Town,... 


IEA executive director Dr Fatih Birol

IEA warns on continuing high methane gas emissions from energy sector

10th March 2023

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned that emissions of methane remained “stubbornly high”. It did so in its “Global Methane Tracker 2023” report, published on Tuesday.   Methane is a... 


UK-based air charter, leasing group expands Africa team

10th March 2023

Specialist UK-based air charter and aircraft leasing company Chapman Freeborn, founded in 1973, has announced that it has tripled the size of its Africa team, which is located close to South... 


A photo depicting the transition to greener energy sources

Funding green transition is a major focus for Nedbank CIB

9th March 2023

Helping corporate clients transition to a future low-carbon economy is a major focus for Nedbank Corporate & Investment Banking (Nedbank CIB). The bank was the first South African commercial bank... 


Renewables and hydrogen infrastructure

Namibia stresses green hydrogen ambitions, plans

9th March 2023

The south west African Republic of Namibia sought to become the sustainability hub of Africa and aimed to become the first carbon-neutral country on the continent. This was highlighted on Wednesday... 


Achieving a circular economy means more mining

3rd March 2023

Achieving a circular economy would require much more efficient mining and processing, much more recycling of metals, much more reprocessing and recycling of mine waste, particularly tailings dumps... 


Hive Energy announces Chile green hydrogen project, to parallel its South African one

27th February 2023

UK-based green energy company Hive Energy (Hive), which has a major green hydrogen and green ammonia project pipeline in South Africa, has announced that it has entered a joint venture (JV) with... 


Africa urged invest in geomapping

24th February 2023

South African Council for Geoscience CEO Mosa Mabuza has called for greater investment in geomapping in Africa. He was participating in a panel discussion at the Investing in African Mining Indaba,... 


IEA executive director Dr Fatih Birol

IEA warns on continuing high methane gas emissions from the global energy sector

21st February 2023

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned that emissions of methane remained “stubbornly high”. It did so in its “Global Methane Tracker 2023” report, published on Tuesday.   Methane is a... 


Global assurance group launches Phase 2 of offshore hydrogen pipeline standards project

21st February 2023

Norway-based global assurance and risk management group DNV has announced that it is launching the second phase of the joint industry project (JIP) to develop a new set of standards, or code, to... 


Achieving a circular economy means more mining

15th February 2023

Achieving a circular economy would require much more efficient mining and processing, much more recycling of metals, much more reprocessing and recycling of mine waste, particularly tailings dumps... 


UK junior reports good results from its copper/gold exploration programme in Eritrea

14th February 2023

UK-domiciled junior miner Andiamo Exploration has so far identified a 100 000 oz equivalent copper-gold resource (compliant with the Canadian NI 43 101 standard) at its Yacob Dewar property in... 


Company gets UK grant to help develop new-generation pumped hydro system

10th February 2023

Tailings dam material could be one of the waste materials that could be used to create high-density fluids (HDF) that would enable a new-generation and much more capable form of pumped hydro-energy... 


Air traffic control in Somali airspace restored after 30 years

10th February 2023

The airspace over and around Somalia was reclassified as Class A at one minute past midnight on Thursday morning. This marked the operational restoration of air traffic control (ATC) services in... 


1 Military Hospital shining example of PPP success

10th February 2023

The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) has highlighted the potential of strategic public-private partnerships (PPP) to ensure the proper management and maintenance of State-owned healthcare... 


Artist’s impression of a six-module VOYGR SMR power plant

US small modular nuclear reactor gets design certification

10th February 2023

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued its so-called ‘Final Rule’ for the NuScale Power (NuScale) small modular nuclear reactor (SMR), completing the certification process for... 


Inclusivity, productive land use and promoting biodiversity all help miners to go green

9th February 2023

Major South African mining company Exxaro Resources had based its ambitions regarding the global decarbonisation process on its realisation that its own transition process had to be inclusive,... 


Mining and the circular economy support each other

7th February 2023

Mining was essential if the world was to create a circular economic system, Finnish Geological Survey director-general Kimmo Tiilikainen has pointed out. He was addressing a Sustainable Mining... 


Bushveld Minerals CEO Fortune Mojapelo

Energy transition offers great opportunities to Africa, but constraints are significant

7th February 2023

The global transition to low- and zero-carbon energy sources was a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Africa, just as the original Industrial Revolution had been for the West, highlighted... 


Africa must invest in geomapping, energy, transport, education to exploit new mining boom

7th February 2023

South African Council for Geoscience CEO Mosa Mabuza has called for greater investment in geomapping in Africa. He was participating in a panel discussion at the Investing in African Mining Indaba,... 


Just energy transition good for South Africa but coal sector has to be involved

3rd February 2023

A Just Energy Transition (JET) was in the interests of South Africa, the World Bank has concluded. So reported World Bank senior energy economist Mariano Salto in a panel discussion at the Southern... 


Minerals Council Junior and Emerging Miners Desk head Grant Mitchell

Serious challenges face the South African junior coal mining sector

3rd February 2023

The major problems facing the junior and emerging coal mining sector in South Africa were finance, a dysfunctional regulator and logistical difficulties. These were highlighted in a panel... 


Hydrogen-fuelled genset successfully tested

3rd February 2023

UK-based global major power and propulsion systems group Rolls-Royce has announced that its Germany-based Power Systems business unit has successfully tested an mtu-brand generator set (genset)... 


Part of the MeerKAT array

SA’s MeerKAT radio telescope team awarded prestigious international award

3rd February 2023

South Africa’s MeerKAT radio telescope array team has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s (RAS’) prestigious Group Achievement Award for 2023. The award was made, in the words of the RAS... 


South Africa’s overall gross R&D spending not reduced because of Covid-19, reports HSRC

3rd February 2023

The Covid-19 pandemic had no discernible impact on overall research and development (R&D) activity in South Africa, the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) has found. The HSRC has released its... 


International JV to develop control technologies for next-generation aeroengine

27th January 2023

International joint venture (JV) FADEC Alliance has been chosen to design and develop the electronic control system for the CFM International RISE demonstrator engine programme. FADEC Alliance is a... 


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