By: Leigh McMaster ( Virtual Showroom) Mining has played a crucial role in South Africa's economic development and history, shaping both the nation’s economy and its social landscape. Mining in... 

By: Richard Roberts - Editorial Director, Beacon Events Technology helping Saudi miner tackle complex mining, processing scenario 

By: Yewande Ayowole-Oso - Talent Leader, Anglophone Africa at Schneider Electric Marrying theory with practice, a challenge as old as the concept of employment itself. The transition from education... 

By: Thabang Byl - Buildings Segment Lead at Schneider Electric The world’s ESG reporting journey reads like a chapter from a history book.  But for the sake of clarity, one should start in 1990; a... 

By: Naaman Shibi – Paperless Solutions Expert, www.pervidi.com.au The mining industry, known for its complexity and operational challenges, requires stringent safety measures to ensure both the... 

By: Julien Karambua - MD at Workforce Staffing Namibia Namibia's mining sector, a cornerstone of the country's economy, is undergoing a significant resurgence, particularly around uranium and gold... 

By: Richard Roberts - Editorial Director, Beacon Events New, and some old, technology will play a major part in decarbonisation drive. 

By Richard Roberts, Editorial Director, Beacon Events ‘The lead time of a normal copper project is already longer than the 11 years we have left until 2035’ 

By: Nimmita Maharaj - Diversity and Transformation Director, Anglophone Africa at Schneider Electric As we celebrate Heritage Month in South Africa, it's impossible not to be inspired by our... 

By - Phillipa Burmeister ( Virtual Showroom ) Like many life-changing decisions, mine was taken on a Tuesday with only the most cursory consideration and little understanding of how it would affect... 

By: Richard Roberts - Editorial Director, Beacon Events ‘It’s the voices of stakeholders that are actually informing a lot of the decision making around the outcomes of water management at the moment’ 

By: Richard Roberts - Editorial Director, Beacon Events ‘Vital to promote diversity and attract the next generation of inspirational leaders’ 

By: Richard Roberts - Editorial Director, Beacon Events Major mining services company Thiess is looking at ways to promote company-wide adoption of a training program developed in Australia and... 

By: Kobus Vermeulen - Direct Sales Executive, Process Automation at Schneider Electric In the early days of industrialisation, control systems were primarily mechanical and relied on manual... 

By Obinna Uche, Sales Director, Power Systems Division at Schneider Electric Anglophone West Africa West Africa is prioritising sustainability.  In countries like Nigeria, we are seeing an... 

By: Jacques Farmer - MD at PRISMA Training Solutions The mining industry faces a dual challenge: ensuring a reliable power supply while minimising its environmental impact. As the world transitions... 

By: Dwibin Thomas - Cluster Automation Leader at Schneider Electric A recent report published  by ScienceDirect, highlights two storage technologies: battery storage (BS) which is generally... 

By: Rohan de Beer -  End User Sales Director at Schneider Electric Despite the rapid growth of cloud computing, driven by the hype around key factors such as skills, budget and security, the... 

By Anoop Hariparsad, Digital Energy BU Leader, Anglophone Africa at Schneider Electric The South African solar energy market has certainly gone through an exciting time, marked by surging demand,... 

By Sian Thurtell, Chief Operating Officer at KBC Health & Safety Competence serves as the bedrock upon which a secure and efficient workplace is built. It equips employees with the skills to... 

By Richard Roberts, Editorial Director, Beacon Events This year’s unique event mural … symbolises the intersection of the modern mining industry and the country’s oldest culture 

By: Richard Roberts - Editorial Director, Beacon Events ‘Various companies, governments and investors have been grappling with the question of how to shorten timelines to production’ 

By Jonathan Duncan, technical director for Africa at Vertiv The future of IT thermal management is here… and it’s a hybrid of air and liquid cooling technologies.  

By Johan Pretorius, MMM Segment Lead, Anglophone Africa at Schneider Electric  The mining, minerals and metals industry forms a critical part of material supply, all essential as the world... 

By Obinna Uche, Sales Director, Power Systems Division at Schneider Electric Anglophone West Africa The predictive maintenance marketplace is set to grow by at a CAGR of 17% until 2028, according... 

By Kobus Vermeulen, Direct Sales Executive, Process Automation at Schneider Electric What is the body without a brain?  An empty vessel, uncoordinated and purposeless.  The same can be said about... 

By Sasha Ramjathan, Consumer Packaged Goods Segment Lead at Schneider Electric In terms of volumes produced, South Africa's sugar industry ranks in the top 15 out of about 120 sugar-producing... 

By Thabang Byl, Buildings Segment Lead at Schneider Electric In a time when South African businesses, property owners and managers are transitioning buildings from energy-intensive entities to... 

By Johan Potgieter, Cluster Industrial Software Lead at Schneider Electric Blockchain technology goes by many names; game-changer, disruptive, futuristic and impenetrable.  Names all well-deserved... 

By Richard Roberts, Editorial Director, Beacon Events ‘The new generation of industry personnel in Mongolia is increasingly fluent in the international language of mining' 

By Richard Roberts, Editorial Director, Beacon Events ‘We're seeing organisations share more in order to learn and grow' 

By Erick Wessels, Sales Director, RS South Africa The mining industry is facing significant challenges, from financial pressures leading to reduced margins and demanding stakeholders adding to... 

By Suvern Moodley, EcoConsult Business Development Manager – Anglophone Africa Cluster in Schneider Electric Schneider Electric has a comprehensive Consulting Offering to help businesses identify... 

By: Richard Roberts - Editorial Director, Beacon Events ‘There’s a race going on to develop recycling capabilities … to support a pivot away from reliance on Chinese metals supply’ 

By Devan Pillay, Cluster President, Anglophone Africa at Schneider Electric “The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos.... 

By Ben Selier, Vice President, Secure Power, Anglophone Africa at Schneider Electric It reads like a paragraph from a Philip K. Dick Sci-Fi novel; high performance computing (HPC) can perform... 

By: Casper Labuschagne - country sales manager, Namibia at Schneider Electric Mark Twain famously said: During the gold rush it’s a good time to be in the pick and shovel business”. The mining,... 

By Chris: Neethling - Channel Sales Manager and Tobi Olorunsola, Offer Manager Home & Distribution Division at Schneider Electric While electric vehicles (EVs) are gaining traction in many...