by Dianne Bayley | Nov 3, 2020 | Sustainability
Everyone knows by now that due to a combination of leadership, environment, social ecology, demographics and as yet unknown biological and other factors, Africa has been spared the worst of the havoc that COVID-19 has wreaked on other parts of the globe and was...
by Dianne Bayley | Nov 2, 2020 | Sustainability
An update on 28 October 2020 before Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa), the Auditor-General of South Africa and the Special Investigating Unit found that over 6 000 government officials had claimed more than R41 million in UIF TERS covid-19...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 19, 2020 | Sustainability
Across the world, the Covid-19 pandemic, along with its subsequent travel restrictions and historic crash in oil prices, is deferring major final investment decisions and billions of dollars of capital that were expected to flow into Africa’s energy industry. Or is it...
by Dianne Bayley | Oct 16, 2020 | Security and Legal
The mining industry has a reputation for being a risky business, with varied and serious health risks. But mining doesn’t have to be unsafe – thanks to strict safety legislation, the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy recorded only 51 fatalities in 2019, the...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 11, 2020 | Security and Legal
This has been a year of disruption, confusion and now a new ‘normal’. COVID-19 is here for the foreseeable future and, according to Pierre Aurel, Senior Consultant and Product Manager at Synthesis Software Technologies, that means humans need to adapt to new...
