The prevalence of HIV/Aids among workers poses a very significant threat to both company productivity and occupational health and safety. The disturbing effect that the HIV/Aids pandemic can have on an organisation’s workforce was made all too clear to delegates who attended this year’s NOSHCON Conference, Africa’s largest annual occupational risk [...]

With over 1 billion ounces in reserves, South Africa’s platinum mining industry has probably the strongest outlook of any mining sector in the country. Despite the sharp decline in platinum prices since September 2008, the demand for platinum is rising in a range of industrial applications, meaning that global demand will continue to outstrip supply.
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The Innovation Fund, through its Technology Advancement Programme (TAP), invites all South Africans (inventors, techno-entrepreneurs, engineers and researchers), who are engaged in the research and development of novel and inventive technologies, to submit their proposals.
The investment sought must be for research and development, resulting in a working prototype or similar, which is ready for commercialisation. [...]