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            <title>African Energy Week 2026 to bring global energy leaders to Cape Town</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[African Energy Week (AEW) 2026 will bring together energy leaders, investors, policymakers and industry stakeholders in Cape Town from October 12 to 16 for discussions focused on investment and the development of Africa’s energy sector.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Businesses evaluating solar investments should look beyond electricity savings and also assess the true cost of power interruptions, according to Shaune Bouwer, Commercial Engineering Manager at Stage Zero. While residential solar projects are often measured by their impact on monthly electricity bills, Bouwer says commercial installations require a broader assessment that accounts for operational disruptions, lost productivity and business risk.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Schneider Electric, a global energy technology partner, its industrial software subsidiary AVEVA and trusted Strategic Alliance Partner, 4Sight OT Automation, a subsidiary of 4Sight Holdings, are helping South African wastewater treatment specialist Calcamite, to accelerate the digital transformation of its modular wastewater treatment plants through a scalable Edge-to-Cloud automation solution. Testament to the success of the solution is Gourikwa Coastal Nature Reserve, situated within the UNESCO‑recognised Gouritz Cluster Biosphere Reserve and which served as the first deployment site.  The pilot implementation successfully demonstrated the value of Schneider Electric's software-defined automation architecture and AVEVA Connect-based monitoring environment and subsequently won the illustrious 2026 AVEVA Sustainable Impact Award.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa's new-vehicle market continued its positive momentum in July, with total sales reaching 57,708 units, an increase of 11.9% compared with July 2025. For Foton South Africa, however, the significance of the latest figures extends beyond another positive month for vehicle sales. The numbers point to a South African automotive market that is changing, and a customer who is increasingly willing to consider alternatives.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[South African mines operate under constrained conditions. With a notable slowdown in new discoveries since the 1990s, they have become experts at working with dispersed and mixed-grade deposits. They continue to invest smartly through technology and extract more from tougher conditions. However, those investments have to be very targeted and produce real value. It's essential that water technology providers know how to back mines in finding and developing high-value water systems, says Chetan Mistry, Xylem's Strategy and Marketing Manager - WSS (Africa, Middle East, Turkey, India).]]></description>
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            <title>MNA’s investment in South Africa’s future engineers recognised</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As South Africa works to strengthen the skills and capacity needed to deliver and maintain the infrastructure on which communities and the economy depend, some of the most important work to strengthen the engineering pipeline happens quietly inside consulting engineering firms. For Makhaotse, Narasimulu and Associates (MNA), developing that pipeline has been a deliberate focus for more than two decades and it has now earned the firm national recognition, having been named Mentoring Company of the Year at this year’s Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) Aon Engineering Excellence Awards.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[With millions of households and businesses across Africa still unable to access affordable, clean and reliable energy, the continent must focus on improving distribution networks and ensuring proper management right down to municipal level. This is according to power industry leaders who were speaking during a panel discussion on power infrastructure at the Sustainable Infrastructure Development Symposium South Africa (SIDSSA), hosted by Infrastructure South Africa (ISA) in Cape Town.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa needs to rethink how it approaches infrastructure delivery if it is to achieve better public value, stronger economic outcomes and more resilient infrastructure, according to Inba Thumbiran, Head of Supply Chain Management at the National Research Foundation of South Africa. Speaking at the 14th Consulting Engineers South Africa’s (CESA) Young Professionals  Sustainability Imbizo, recently held in Midrand, Thumbiran challenged young professionals and the wider engineering community to move beyond established ways of working.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Mining machines such as rock crushers, pumps, and conveyors require powerful motors. But producing high starting and peak torque is not enough for ongoing performance. Heavy-duty industrial motors may have the power, but they lack sufficiently robust enclosures, seals, heat dissipation, and other measures that ensure longer lifespans in harsh environments such as at mining sites. Severe-duty motors handle those conditions.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a global leader in IT services, consulting, and business solutions, has announced the winners of the fifth edition of TCS Sustainathon™ South Africa, its flagship competition that encourages university students to use technology to solve real-world sustainability challenges. Team Still Lazy Tech, led by Msawenkosi Magwaza, Bongumusa Dladla, and Sipho Mokoena from Durban University of Technology, won the competition and the grand prize of ZAR 30,000. The winning team’s solution, SolarMind, uses AI to help resolve solar energy problems. It addresses unreliable electricity and rising energy costs, with the potential to scale across South Africa.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping industries around the world, and agriculture is no exception. Beyond chatbots and automation, AI is helping food producers improve efficiency, make better decisions and solve complex challenges. As the technology evolves, it is also creating career opportunities that didn't exist just a few years ago. For Liza Burger, Artificial Intelligence Manager at Rainbow Chicken, combining agriculture with technology wasn't part of the original plan. It was simply the next step in a career built around solving problems.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[In modern manufacturing, operational downtime, component degradation and structural failure can have significant financial consequences. Across industries such as heavy tooling, automotive, aerospace and food processing, engineers must contend with friction, thermal stress, mechanical fatigue and stringent regulatory requirements. When critical injection moulds crack, aerospace components fail inspection or food-grade stainless steel develops surface imperfections that encourage bacterial growth, conventional repair methods are often inadequate. Precision tools and equipment supplier Cape Tools provides specialised engineering solutions that combine traditional metalworking expertise with advanced automated technologies. Its portfolio includes laser welding, Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) welding, micro-mould repair, high-purity metal casting, automated surface finishing and industrial cleaning systems designed to reduce downtime, improve repeatability and extend component life.]]></description>
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            <title> Schneider Electric marks nine years of supporting engineering excellence at Wits</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Schneider Electric, a global energy technology leader, has continued its longstanding commitment to developing future engineering talent by sponsoring the Schneider Electric Automation Student Prize at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) for the ninth consecutive year. The Schneider Electric Automation Student Prize was this year presented to Keshika Govender and Faatimah Mullah, the best fourth-year students in the field of Measurement and Control Projects within Wits’ School of Electrical and Information Engineering.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[In the last week of August, the Alfa Laval Food & Pharma Division management team visited South Africa for the first time together, marking a significant milestone in the division’s commitment to strengthening its presence across Africa. The visit included engagements with regulatory authorities, partners, and customers, and featured the jointly hosted seminar with Business Sweden South Africa titled “Future of Food Security and Advanced Pharma Production in Africa.” The seminar convened ...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The global race for critical minerals is entering a new phase.

No longer defined solely by access to mineral reserves, it is increasingly being shaped by industrial policy, geopolitical competition and the race to build resilient supply chains for electric vehicles, renewable energy technologies and advanced manufacturing.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Epiroc has once again demonstrated its steadfast commitment to the conviction that every person deserves access to safe, potable water - a fundamental, life‑sustaining resource - through the recent delivery of a new borehole to Kloofwater Intermediate School in Rustenburg, Northwest Province, as part of the company’s Water for All initiative. Rooted in the founding principle that clean water is a human right, Water for All, a non‑profit organisation established by employees on 22 August 1984, works to provide communities in need with safe drinking water. Through voluntary employee contributions, matched by the company, the organisation brings safe drinking water to communities across the country.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[“The hare of science and technology lurches ahead. The tortoise of the law ambles slowly behind.” - Justice Michael Kirby, By Claire Tucker, Head of Public Law and Regulatory and Lebohang Molapi, Candidate Legal Practitioner, Bowmans]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Zander Brewis, Technical Alignment Manager at IPT Businesses are producing and retaining more data every year, often across a growing mix of systems, cloud platforms, email environments, and shared repositories. That creates an obvious storage challenge, but storage capacity is only part of the problem.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[For GIBB’s Pravanya Pillay, engineering is not simply about building infrastructure. It is about understanding the systems, decisions and human behaviour that determine whether infrastructure creates lasting value. A strategist by instinct and an engineer by training, she says she was never interested in infrastructure simply for the sake of infrastructure. “What fascinated me was cause and effect: why one intervention can unlock an entire area or economy, while another can become a very expensive asset looking for a purpose.”]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The 2026 National Research Foundation (NRF) Awards Ceremony will take place on Thursday, 03 September 2026, at the Boardwalk Hotel and Casino in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape, under the theme “Building an Inclusive, Impactful and Transformed Research Future.” Members of the media are invited to cover this prestigious awards ceremony, held annually to celebrate South Africa’s research excellence. The programme will feature a welcome address by NRF Board Chairperson Professor Ari Sitas; a keynote address by the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Professor Blade Nzimande; remarks by NRF Acting CEO Dr Angus Paterson; and closing remarks by the Deputy Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr Nomalungelo Gina.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[(Virtual Showroom) In Maluti Mountains of Lesotho, southern Africa, sits the world's highest diamond mine, 3 200 meters above sea level. It's a punishing place to work with heavy snowfall, temperatures swinging from -18°C to +20°C, and relentless wind. The ore preparation process is no gentler. The mine pulls ore to the surface through two kimberlite pipes. That source rock is crushed and processed to extract diamonds, but the yield is small and less than two carats per hundred tons of rock. Getting to those diamonds takes serious effort. Separating Diamonds from Kimberlite]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Data Centre Summit returns for its second edition on 29 October 2026, co-located with the C&I Energy + Storage Summit at The Maslow Hotel in Johannesburg. Following its debut alongside Enlit Africa in Cape Town, the Summit responds to a clear industry need: a platform that connects the growth of artificial intelligence and digital infrastructure with the power, cooling, financing and sustainability challenges shaping data centre development across Africa.]]></description>
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