By By Sian Thurtell, Commercial Director at KBC Health & Safety No matter how much safety performance improves year on year, mining in South Africa remains a high-risk environment. Fatality numbers... 

By: Karen Oliver - Business Manager at Waco Modular Africa’s mining frontier is expanding rapidly, with new mining operations emerging across the continent to meet the surging global demand for... 

By President of the Junior Mining Council Fred Arendse  A continental shift in mineral governance 

By: Luthando Makiwane - Marketing Manager Industry Automation at Schneider Electric Imagine a factory floor where humans and machines communicate in real time; issues flagged instantly, workflows... 

By: Kobus Vermeulen - Direct Sales Executive, Process Automation at Schneider Electric Process industries today are walking a tightrope of sorts, modernising ageing distributed control systems... 

By: Adesina Gbadebo - Power & Grid Segment, Schneider Electric West Africa Nigeria is the land of abundance, richly endowed with natural resources, cultural diversity, and human capital.  However,... 

By: Josiah Habwe - General Manager for Tanzania & Uganda at Schneider Electric Uganda and Tanzania are entering a major phase of infrastructure-led growth. Both countries are undergoing large-scale... 

By: Mourad Younis - Cloud & Services Provider Segment Leader, Schneider Electric, Middle East & Africa Africa’s digital economy is scaling faster than its power systems. Cloud regions, Artificial... 

By: Suvern Moodley - EcoConsult Business Development, Field Services, for Anglophone Africa at Schneider Electric  Behind every reliable wastewater plant is an electrical system exposed to the... 

By: Phumudzo Motalane - Offer Manager: Power Products - LV Systems at Schneider Electric Today, buildings account for up to 40% of global energy consumption and CO2 emissions, a well-known... 

In our weekly Energies Briefing to our clients on February 20, 2026, we noted that, “…it would seem that war is imminent, with [US President Donald] Trump threatening ‘really bad things’ by the... 

By: Taru Madangombe - Vice President for Power and Grid Segment, MEA at Schneider Electric The EU’s electricity network spans over  11 million kilometres, making it one of the most extensive and... 

By: Jacques Farmer – MD at PRISMA Training Solutions Human Capital Development (HCD) in South Africa’s mining industry has long supported productivity, safety, and compliance. But as operations... 

By: Steven Santini - Secure Power Vice President, Schneider Electric Sub-Saharan Africa Today, single AI query uses roughly ten times the electricity of a typical Internet search, and demand is... 

By: Hennie Smith - Solution Architect, Industry Automation at Schneider Electric  Industrial automation is undoubtedly one of the most exciting solution frameworks and work methodologies in this... 

By: Anoop Hariparsad - Offer Marketing Manager, Microgrids, MEA at Schneider Electric The well-known adage, “the sum of its parts...” rings at it truest when it comes to technology. Seldom would... 

By: Josiah Habwe - General Manager for Tanzania & Uganda at Schneider Electric           Tanzania and Uganda are at an important stage in their economic development, where infrastructure investment... 

By: Mourad Younis - Cloud & Services Provider Segment Leader, Schneider Electric, Middle East & Africa Africa’s digital economy is scaling faster than its power systems. Cloud regions, Artificial... 

By: Yewande Ayowole‑Oso - Talent Leader, English‑speaking Africa at Schneider Electric Across industries, artificial intelligence (AI) continues to dominate conversations about the future of work.... 

By: Taru Madangombe - Vice President for Power and Grid Segment, MEA at Schneider Electric Technology’s evolution continues to inspire, however, there are also cautionary tales that justifiably... 

By: Johan Potgieter - Cluster Industrial Software Lead at Schneider Electric In a CSIR research paper, Leading logistics performance, the organisation cites the performance of South Africa... 

By Anoop Hariparsad, MEA Offer Marketing – Microgrids, Digital Energy at Schneider Electric There are few things life that gets the blood boiling; and inaccurate billing is right up there with its... 

By: Oluwamuyiwa  Akinmejiwa - End User Business Leader at Schneider Electric Banks in West Africa face a critical infrastructure choice in their digital transformation between cloud, colocation or... 

By: Nishandra Baijnath - Systems Architect, Digital Automation at Schneider Electric Utilities and municipalities are facing a pivotal challenge as the country’s legacy power grid – engineered for... 

By: Ajibola Akindele MFR - Country President, Schneider Electric West Africa In West Africa, the integrity of electrical infrastructure must become a non-negotiable prerequisite.  Our region is... 

By: Kobus Vermeulen - Direct Sales Executive, Process Automation at Schneider Electric  As process industries hurtle toward an AI-driven future, four powerful trends are set to redefine automation... 

By: Adebayo Agbaje - Access to Energy, Business Development at Schneider Electric West Africa In a report by the World Health Organisation (WHO), access to energy is cited as fundamental to... 

By: Pusetso Sentle - Solutions Architect at Schneider Electric Industrial automation has long been shaped by proprietary systems and tightly coupled hardware-software architectures. However, in... 

By: John Kettlewell - Executive: Agriculture & Mining, Unitrans The 2026 Investing in African Mining Indaba carried a familiar public narrative: policy reform, geopolitical positioning and capital... 

The mining industry is undergoing significant transformation in terms of its approach to risk mitigation and management. Once characterised by a reactive mindset, today’s mining organisations are... 

By: Dustin Van Liew - SVP Global Policy, EnerGeo Alliance After years of declining investment, a shrinking productive base, and persistently high unemployment, South Africa is facing real economic... 

By: Claude Kabemba and Monica Mbugua In 2025, a tailings dam – which is designed to store waste byproducts – collapsed at the Sino-Metals Leach Zambia copper mine. It released toxic waste into the... 

In the global discourse on climate change, the transition to sustainable power is often reduced to a simple formula: “replace fossil fuels with renewables.” However, for those responsible for the... 

By Naseema Ephraim, Employee Benefits Operations Director at financial consultancy ASI Financial Services Before the shift siren sounds, many miners have already been awake for hours. Long... 

By: Niel Lourens - Vice President for Cyclones & Spirals at Multotec  The Canadian coal mining industry is facing increasing challenges. Tighter environmental regulations, rising operating costs,... 

By: Patrick Kauta - Managing Partner, CDH Namibia, and Vivien Chaplin, Head of the Mining & Minerals sector, CDH South Africa This outlook explores expected trends and developments in Namibian... 

By: Nishandra Baijnath - Systems Architect, Digital Automation at Schneider Electric Utilities and municipalities are facing a pivotal challenge as the country’s legacy power grid – engineered for... 

By Kobus Vermeulen, Direct Sales Executive, Process Automation at Schneider Electric In the world of industrial automation, the spotlight has recently shifted from traditional turbomachinery to the...