Leandi Kolver
Leandi Kolver is Creamer Media Deputy Editor Features for Engineering News and Mining Weekly.
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Daily Podcast – October 21, 2015
21st October 2015 Making headlines: More SA universities suspend lectures over fee hike protests. Cosatu says the mini budget should acknowledge that "business as... →
Daily podcast – July 31, 2015
31st July 2015 Making headlines: The ANC resolves to rush ahead with the final report on Nkandla. Plane debris found on a remote island points to a breakthrough... →
Whispers from the depths: The Kariba story
7th July 2015 Whispers from the Depths, written by Liz Wickins and Mike Wickins, is the story of the building of Kariba dam in the mid-1950s, but it focuses as... →
Daily Podcast – May 27, 2015
27th May 2015 Making headlines: Numbers of people at a xenophobia refugee camp in Durban increase. Boko Haram kills at least 43 people in Nigeria's Borno state.... →
The Class of '79: Three students who risked their lives to destroy Apartheid
5th March 2015 When did this story begin?... It began when three Rhodes University students realised that what was happening in South Africa’s so-called ‘separate... →
Daily podcast – January 28, 2015
28th January 2015 Making headlines: Load shedding resumes as dam levels run low. The IMF's Christine Lagarde warns African economies of headwinds from China and the... →
Companies should consider economic benefits of apprenticeships
11th December 2014 Companies should engage in the training of young people through offering apprenticeships for economic reasons and not only because they felt... →
Balance key to a working education system
10th December 2014 Balance was the key to a working education system, as both practically or vocationally trained workers and those with academic qualifications were... →
Anglo American director appointed as Busa CEO
5th December 2014 Mining major Anglo American director Khanyisile Kweyama has been appointed CEO of Business Unity South Africa (Busa) for a two-year term starting... →
Sapoa to partner with DPW to tackle property-related issues
4th December 2014 The South African Property Owners Association (Sapoa) is hoping to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Department of Public Works... →
Neasa appeals Labour Court judgment, requests Minister to hold off on decision
3rd December 2014 The National Employers Association of South Africa (Neasa) on Tuesday filed an urgent application for leave to appeal Justice Hilary... →
Business confidence rises in Nov as BCI moves away from ‘desperate’ levels
3rd December 2014 Business confidence improved during November, with the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) Business Confidence Index (BCI)... →
Amendments to e-Road regulations published for public comment
3rd December 2014 Transport Minister Dipuo Peters has published various amendments to the Gauteng e-Road regulations in the Government Gazette for public comment.... →
Construction started on Ekurhuleni IRPTN
2nd December 2014 Construction has started on the Ekurhuleni metropolitan municipality’s new Integrated Rapid Public Transport Network (IRPTN) service that would... →
Rhodes professor appointed to UN advisory panel
1st December 2014 Rhodes University Distinguished Professor Tebello Nyokong has been appointed to a United Nations (UN) high-level panel to advise on the... →
Labour Court dismisses Neasa application
1st December 2014 The Labour Court in Johannesburg on Monday dismissed an urgent application by the National Employers Association of South Africa (Neasa) to prevent... →
Adoption of Bali package puts WTO negotiations ‘back on track’
28th November 2014 The World Trade Organisation (WTO) on Thursday adopted the Bali trade reform package, putting the organisation’s negotiations back on track, WTO... →
Sustainability reporting on the rise among JSE-listed companies
27th November 2014 This year, 82 companies met the JSE’s Socially Responsible Index (SRI) requirements relating to environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies... →
New HySA centre to promote PGM beneficiation, SA’s hydrogen economy
27th November 2014 The work of the newly launched Hydrogen South Africa (HySA) Infrastructure facilities located at the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research... →
SA coal-related R&D inadequate – ASSAf
26th November 2014 South Africa’s investment in coal-related research and development (R&D) was inadequate, given the fact that coal would continue to dominate the... →
Ash plant equipment failure results in higher emissions from Lethabo power station
26th November 2014 State-owned power utility Eskom on Wednesday said its Lethabo power station, in the Free State, was experiencing “very high emissions” on four of... →
Portfolio committee to consult steel-, mineworkers on minimum wage
24th November 2014 The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Labour would, this week, interact with steel- and mineworkers on the national minimum wage during the... →
CIF members agree to invite new nations to join climate resilience pilot
24th November 2014 Signatories to the Climate Investment Funds’ (CIF’s) mandate last week agreed to invite a group of new pilot nations to come forward and develop... →
Eskom UCG commercialisation date ‘slips’ amid permitting delays
18th November 2014 State-owned power utility Eskom was no longer targeting 2017 for the commercialisation of underground coal gasification (UCG) at its Majuba power... →
Eskom says Westinghouse withdraws urgent High Court application
12th November 2014 Power utility Eskom on Tuesday said Westinghouse Electric Belgium had withdrawn its urgent High Court application, which charged the utility with... →
Platinum exchange could benefit SA economy, advance beneficiation objectives
11th November 2014 If South Africa was serious about platinum beneficiation it had no choice but to put in place a platinum exchange, investment company Pan-African... →
Sacci BCI declines in October, business climate calls for interrogation of negative factors
5th November 2014 The South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) Business Confidence Index (BCI) declined by 0.4 index points to 88.8 in October,... →
Committees recommend NT, NCOP ratify DoE Grand Inga report
4th November 2014 The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Energy and the Select Committee on Economic and Business Development on Tuesday recommended that the... →
Labour Court grants interim order in favour of Neasa
4th November 2014 The Labour Court, in Johannesburg, on Tuesday granted a further interim order preventing the Metal and Engineering Industries Bargaining Council... →
Neasa to return to Labour Court to fight extension of 2014 wage agreement
3rd November 2014 The National Employers’ Association of South Africa (Neasa) would on Tuesday return to the Labour Court, in Johannesburg, to argue its case as to... →
Sacci urges Eskom to continue communicating with business on power-grid status
3rd November 2014 The South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) on Monday encouraged State-owned power utility Eskom to continue communicating with the... →
PMI increases for third consecutive month in October
3rd November 2014 The seasonally adjusted Kagiso purchasing managers’ index (PMI) rose for the third consecutive month in October, increasing to 50.1, compared with... →
Affordability, cooperation key in housing development
31st October 2014 Affordability was the key issue facing South Africa in terms of human settlements and housing development, South African Affordable Residential... →
Unemployment at 25.4%, Stats SA to provide long-term unemployment data
30th October 2014 Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) would, in future, focus more strongly on the trends of long-term unemployment in its quarterly labour force... →
Motsepe Foundation, ARM donate $1m to Guinea Ebola fund
28th October 2014 Motsepe Foundation founder and African Rainbow Minerals executive chairperson and founder Patrice Motsepe has donated $1-million to Guinea’s Ebola... →
Giant Flag construction to start next year
24th October 2014 Construction of the R170-million Giant Flag project, in the Camdeboo municipal area of the Karoo, is scheduled to start early next year, creating... →
Zuma says govt seriously mulling Operation Phakisa for mining sector
23rd October 2014 President Jacob Zuma on Thursday reiterated that government was seriously considering a mining-focused Operation Phakisa phase. Minister in the... →
Emerging economies can overcome sluggish growth forecasts
23rd October 2014 Emerging economies did have the ability to overcome the current difficult economic conditions and slow growth forecast, Brazilian Ambassador... →
SMME funding not responsibility of govt alone – Zulu
23rd October 2014 Government could not take responsibility for radical economic transformation and small business development on its own, Small Business Development... →
DSBD to provide municipalities with SMME infrastructure development incentives
21st October 2014 The Department of Small Business Development (DSBD) would soon invite applications from local municipalities to apply for incentives to cover the... →
SMME inclusion in mainstream economy part of ‘radical economic transformation’ – Zulu
21st October 2014 Ensuring that small, medium-sized and microenterprises (SMMEs) were included in the mainstream economy had to form part of the “radical economic... →
