Rebecca Campbell
Rebecca Campbell is Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor for Engineering News and Mining Weekly.
Spell checker tool for South Africa’s indigenous official languages released
6th October 2022 The Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) announced on Thursday that a spell-checking and hyphenation-checking software tool for ten of the... →
Combat energy poverty as well as achieve decarbonisation - Mantashe
4th October 2022 Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe on Tuesday warned that the need to transition to low-carbon energy sources sat “uncomfortably”... →
UK providing tens of millions of pounds in emergency aid to West African regions
23rd August 2022 The UK Government announced on Tuesday that it was going to provide £37.65-million in urgent humanitarian aid to agencies and programmes operating... →
Public Enterprises considering legal action over 'false and distorted' reports on SAA process
4th July 2022 The South African Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) on Monday affirmed, in a press release, that it was “seeking legal advice on action to be... →
Parliamentary Committee calls for government to facilitate local defence industry exports
13th December 2021 South Africa’s Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Defence has affirmed that the government should give the country’s defence industry the... →
Denel releases radical restructuring plan to make the business sustainable
11th August 2021 Financially-beleaguered State-owned defence industrial group Denel announced on Wednesday a radical reorganisation, in an attempt to turn the... →
UK to host global conference on LGBT rights
17th May 2021 The UK government announced on Sunday that it had invited countries from across the world to attend its first global Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and... →
DPE defends SAA vaccine flight to Brussels
26th February 2021 The Department of Public Enterprises has defended the recent flight by a South African Airways aircraft to Brussels, in Belgium, to collect... →
Denel finally publishes its annual report for 2019/20; reports R1.96bn loss
1st February 2021 South African State-owned defence industrial group Denel released its 2019/20 annual report on Monday. The period covered by the report does not... →
Public Enterprises Ministry welcomes further government funding for SAA
29th October 2020 The Minister of Public Enterprises has welcomed the decision by the government to back the business rescue plan for, and the restructuring of,... →
Rules of Origin a key issue for continuing African free trade area talks
28th October 2020 African Union Ministers of Trade held their 12th meeting, undertaken virtually, on Tuesday. This was the second such meeting to be chaired by South... →
Public Enterprises department reports unsolicited investor interest in SAA
24th August 2020 The Department of Public Enterprises reported on Monday that the South African government had, by the start of this month, received more than ten... →
CSIR makes breakthrough in developing local Covid-19 test
30th July 2020 The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has developed a faster way of testing for the severe acute respiratory syndrome... →
SAA BRPs call short-notice meeting of airline’s creditors
24th July 2020 The business rescue practitioners (BRPs) for financially-beleaguered State-owned national flag carrier South African Airways (SAA) have had to call... →
Unions divided on approval of SAA business rescue plan
15th July 2020 There has been mixed reaction from unions representing employees of South African Airways to the approval of the business rescue plan for the... →
Public Enterprises welcomes yes vote for SAA rescue plan, announces interim CEO
14th July 2020 The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) welcomed the outcome of the creditors’ vote on the proposed business rescue plan for State-owned South... →
Public Enterprises urges yes vote for SAA business rescue plan
13th July 2020 The Department of Public Enterprises has called on the stakeholders in financially-embattled State-owned airline South African Airways to vote in... →
South African airline announces successful repatriation of South Africans from Middle East
9th July 2020 South African private-sector airline company CemAir has announced the successful conclusion of a repatriation flight which it had operated,... →
Public Enterprises calls on unions to agree among themselves on SAA’s future
7th July 2020 The Department of Public Enterprises has urged unions representing employees of financially-embattled State-owned airline South African Airways to... →
Public Enterprises states that four SAA unions willing to accept severance packages
2nd July 2020 The Department of Public Enterprises reported on Thursday that four of the unions representing employees of State-owned national flag carrier South... →
Public Enterprises announces SAA severance packages, urges approval of rescue plan
25th June 2020 The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) announced on Thursday that, should the creditors of State-owned national flag carrier South African... →
Public Enterprises to seek to oppose court applications against SAA business rescue
22nd June 2020 The Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) has announced that it will approach the courts for permission to intervene in a court application... →
New Sansa/Nasa project hopefully to start operations in late 2024
29th May 2020 The project for a new deep space network ground station in South Africa, which is a collaborative venture between the South African National Space... →
SOEs cooperate to ship essential radioisotopes overseas
28th April 2020 South Africa’s globally-important State-owned company NTP Radioisotopes, a subsidiary of the South African Nuclear Energy Corporation, has... →
SAA thanked for its repatriation flights to Germany
24th April 2020 The German Ambassador to South Africa has thanked South African Airways for the airline’s role in repatriating 5 600 European citizens who had been... →
Government ineffective in protecting the economy during the Covid-19 lockdown – BLSA
20th April 2020 The South African Government had dithered in its economic response to the crisis created by the Covid-19 pandemic. So charged Business Leadership... →
Business Leadership South Africa CEO blasts government over SAA
20th April 2020 In her weekly newsletter, released on April 20, business group Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) CEO Busi Mavuso criticised the South African... →
Parliamentary Committee welcomes decision by Minister to refuse another bailout for SAA
15th April 2020 Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) welcomed, in a statement released to the media on April 15, the decision of the Minister... →
Research company claims SAA doomed to liquidation in near future
15th April 2020 Capital markets and financial services research company Intellidex reported on April 14 that State-owned national flag-carrier South African... →
A grim economic forecast for South Africa from JP Morgan
1st April 2020 US-based investment bank and financial services company JP Morgan Chase & Company (JP Morgan) has, in its latest weekly economic forecast for more... →
Food research group warns on precarious nutrition situation of 50% of South Africans
27th March 2020 The independent research Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP) has warned that poorer households in South Africa would be put at risk, in... →
SA Express to halt all flights for an indeterminate time
18th March 2020 State-owned regional airline SA Express, which is currently in business rescue, announced on Wednesday that it would suspend its operations the... →
Japan signs aid funding contracts with South African grassroots organisations
10th March 2020 Japan has supported socioeconomic development and support programmes at the grassroots level in South Africa for more than a quarter century,... →
Public Enterprises, SAA, issue assurances to the country about the airline
20th January 2020 The Ministry of Public Enterprises on Sunday assured the country that it was in discussions with National Treasury regarding the provision, to... →
South African government seeks growth in the local defence industry
15th November 2019 The South African Government has set growth targets it hopes that the local defence industry will achieve over the next few years. This was... →
Japan, UN agency and CSIR to jointly research plastic waste in South Africa
26th July 2019 Japan and the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation signed an agreement at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in... →
Radical plan to stem Necsa losses proposed and then withdrawn by board
17th July 2019 The South African Nuclear Energy Corporation suffered cumulative losses of R257.78-million in the 2016/17 and 2017/18 financial years and is... →
Denel confirms salary cut; union expresses shock and concern
25th June 2019 State-owned defence industrial group Denel confirmed on Tuesday that it will pay its staff only 85% of their salaries for this month. “Due to... →
New strategy, new structure for the CSIR
24th May 2019 Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) CEO Dr Thulani Dlamini announced on Friday both a new strategy and a radical restructuring of... →
Previous Necsa board inept, defiant – Radebe
7th December 2018 Energy Minister Jeff Radebe has made most serious allegations against the previous and recently dismissed board of the State-owned South African... →
Saudi Arabia offers opportunities to South African defence industry
20th September 2018 State-owned Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI) is seeking very close relationships with South African defence companies. "We are ready to... →
