• Zooming ahead

    Zooming ahead

    Over the past few years, drone technology has given the continent’s agriculture industry a digital makeover, thanks to advanced crop spraying, planting, irrigation and monitoring techniques – not to mention… Read more

    Mine of information

    Mine of information

    Since its launch in 2016, mining firms, governments, researchers and stakeholders from more than 35 countries have visited the Botswana geoscience portal, downloading approximately 2 000 multi-disciplinary datasets. According to a Mining Review report,… Read more

    Drawing the numbers

    Drawing the numbers

    In what is already touted as Africa’s most visited cultural and historical hub, Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront recently added another million to its annual visitor tally, as reported by How… Read more

    Cash up

    Cash up

    At present, the only bank note in circulation in Somalia is the 1 000 shilling – smaller denomination fell away during the war and thereafter, partly due to the risk factor… Read more

    Taking part

    Taking part

    South African researchers could be responsible for saving millions of dollars in fuel and production costs. This comes with the development of the world’s largest aircraft parts-producing machine. Using lasers to… Read more