Natalie Jantjies

This week we profile Natalie Jantjies, digital transformation director at Heineken South Africa, which sells, markets and distributes beers and ciders in the South African market 

‘Moo-ney’ deal

I become quite sceptical whenever the old argument that Africans must find African solutions to their challenges is invoked. The argument’s biggest proponents have been the many obnoxious dictators... 

Liz Gorbunov

This week we profile Liz Gorbunov, GM and chief marketing manager: light commercial vehicles and sports utility vehicles at automaker Nissan Africa  

Let’s prioritise mathematics

March 14 was celebrated live and online around the world as the International Day of Mathematics. This was the first time this happened and followed a decision by the United Nations Educational,... 

Derek Halstead-Cleak

This week we profile Derek Halstead-Cleak, CEO of Kwikspace Modular Buildings, Africa’s largest manufacturer of prefabricated and modular buildings. 

Leadership deficiency

Africa continues to face a paucity of political leaders whose democratic credentials are worthy writing home about. The latest evidence of this is the decision by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation not to... 

You can say ‘next tomorrow’ – and it’s correct English

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), described by some as “the last word on [English] words”, has been updated with 29 Nigerian English words and phrases. These include ‘severally’, as in “he... 

Whither, SAA?

I start with a disclaimer: the only discipline in which I received training is the art and craft of journalism. I have never been anywhere near a business school or a lecture hall where the... 

Opinion: Dateline Harare

My wife persuaded me to attend a wedding in Harare on the Saturday after Valentine’s Day. We got one of the earliest flights out of OR Tambo International Airport – just to make sure we would... 

Lucas Tseki

This week we profile Lucas Tseki, CEO of Concor, a provider of diversified infrastructure, building and opencast mining services 

Dateline Harare

My wife persuaded me to attend a wedding in Harare on the Saturday after Valentine’s Day. We got one of the earliest flights out of OR Tambo International Airport – just to make sure we would... 

Opinion: Shame on you, AU and SADC

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni famously excoriated the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) as a trade union of dictators. That was in the mid-1980s. Back then, he was leading an insurrection... 

Shame on you, AU and SADC

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni famously excoriated the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) as a trade union of dictators. That was in the mid-1980s. Back then, he was leading an insurrection... 

Second-generation Presidents

As I have pointed out before, the flare-ups of anti-immigrant sentiment among some communities in our beloved Mzansi do not define South Africans – especially those at the base of the socioeconomic... 

Opinion: No, we don’t love Trump

That Patrice Motsepe is a jolly good fellow is beyond question. He has proved to be one of the world’s more benevolent billionaires, having joined The Giving Pledge in 2013. By so doing, he... 

No, we don’t love Trump

That Patrice Motsepe is a jolly good fellow is beyond question. He has proved to be one of the world’s more benevolent billionaires, having joined The Giving Pledge in 2013. By so doing, he... 

Michael van Niekerk

This week we profile Michael van Niekerk, CEO of ASP-Fire, a fire prevention company 

Mark Dytor

This week we profile Mark Dytor, CEO of explosives and speciality chemicals company AECI 

The more things change . . .

Constantino Chiwenga’s name should be pretty well known – at least in Southern Africa. He is the army general who, in November 2017, led the coup that toppled the late Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s... 

Opinion: Amazing SA inventions of 2019

South Africans are an innovative lot. Much of the world knows about Chris Barnard, the surgeon who performed the world’s first heart transplant in 1967, but many other citizens of this great nation... 

Amazing SA inventions of 2019

South Africans are an innovative lot. Much of the world knows about Chris Barnard, the surgeon who performed the world’s first heart transplant in 1967, but many other citizens of this great nation... 

Climate denialists’ silly obduracy

The myriad of extreme weather events experienced in 2019 should be enough to convince even the most obdurate naysayer to accept the conventional wisdom that global warming – caused by the spewing... 

Opinion: Backward glance

This year has been quite eventful for Africa, and some of the occurrences that came to pass were captured on this page over the past 50-odd weeks. In this last edition for 2019, I take you down... 

Siyabonga Mbanjwa

This week we profile Siyabonga Mbanjwa, regional MD: Southern Africa at SENER, which is involved in energy, including renewable energy, power and oil and gas, as well as infrastructure, including... 

Backward glance

This year has been quite eventful for Africa, and some of the occurrences that came to pass were captured on this page over the past 50-odd weeks. In this last edition for 2019, I take you down... 

Opinion: Blazing Africa’s smartphone trail

In this opinion piece, Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor Martin Zhuwakinyu writes about efforts to close the digital divide between Africa and the rest of the world. Three events in the past few... 

Adelino Barbosa

Full Name: Adelino de Oliveira Barbosa Position: COO of Konica Minolta South Africa, a provider of imaging, printing, document management and software software 

Blazing Africa’s smartphone trail

Three events in the past few weeks will go some way towards closing the digital divide between Africa and other continents. News-consuming South Africans should be familiar with one of these events... 

Opinion: The unifying power of sport

South Africans are still basking in the afterglow of the Springboks’ triumph at the Rugby World Cup. Party poopers like the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) tried their damnedest to diffuse the... 

Tim White

This week we profile Tim White, CEO of property and construction solutions company Profica  

The unifying power of sport

South Africans are still basking in the afterglow of the Springboks’ triumph at the Rugby World Cup. Party poopers like the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) tried their damnedest to diffuse the... 

Opinion: A good move for SA tourism

In this opinion piece, Engineering News Senior Deputy Editor Martin Zhuwakinyu writes about the positive impact of Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi's decision to cancel the requirement of... 

Tebogo Raaleka

This week we profile Tebogo Raaleka, national product specialist: structural steels at Macsteel, a manufacturer, merchandiser and distributor of steel and value-added steel products 

Regulatory excellence key to oil, gas success

African oil and gas regulators need is an organisational culture that is committed to high performance in the advancement of public values, writes Chilenye Nwapi   

A good move for SA tourism

Tourism is something of a cash cow for South Africa. Narrowly defined, the sector accounts for 2.9% of the country’s gross domestic product, but the figure jumps to 8.6% when supply chain linkages... 

Opinion: Wide chasm

In this opinion piece, Engineering News Senior Deputy Editor Martin Zhuwakinyu writes about Africa's digital divide. The term ‘digital divide’ found its way into common parlance yonks ago.... 

Tumi Mphahlele

This week we profile Tumi Mphahlele, CEO of IG3N, a startup that assembles lithium-ion phosphate batteries that are used mostly in solar photovoltaic installations 

Middle Eastern countries to add more renewables to their energy mix

Germany-headquartered multinational Siemens foresees countries in the Middle East increasing renewables’ share of their hydrocarbons-heavy energy mix by five percentage points in the coming decade.... 

Wide chasm

The term ‘digital divide’ found its way into common parlance yonks ago. Initially, it referred to the division between those who had access to the telephone and those who did not. After the late... 

Opinion: Staying put in Mzansi

In this opinion piece, Engineering News Senior Deputy Editor Martin Zhuwakinyu writes about the #ImStaying movement. Humans have a propensity for being highly vocal when they are unhappy about how...