Keith Campbell
Keith Campbell is Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor for Engineering News and Mining Weekly. He holds a master's degree in international relations from the University of the Witwatersrand.
Pan African engineering body needed
6th June 2014 The Federation of African Engineering Organisations (FAEO) is seeking the creation of an African Council of Engineering, which would be under the... →
SA should make more use of Unesco science opportunities
6th June 2014 The Department of Science and Technology (DST) would like South African researchers to make better use of the opportunities provided by the... →
Science and Technology Department to push NDP
4th June 2014 New Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor, recently appointed to the post for the second time, has committed her department to vigorously... →
Ministerial concern about SA radio telescope project
4th June 2014 New Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor has expressed concern about progress with South Africa's MeerKAT radio telescope array. She was... →
Airports Company SA to cooperate with Ghana Airports Company
29th April 2014 The Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) and the Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Tuesday. The... →
Is a new nuclear programme for SA affordable?
15th April 2014 South Africa may have difficulty in financing new nuclear power plants (NPPs), an Academy of Science of South Africa symposium in Pretoria has been... →
New nuclear power in SA dependent on future electricity demand
15th April 2014 Low growth in electricity demand in South Africa will delay, or eliminate the need for, new nuclear power plants. So warned Eskom Transmission... →
First MeerKAT radio telescope dish launched in Karoo
27th March 2014 South African Science and Technology Minister Derek Hanekom formally launched the first dish of the country’s MeerKAT radio telescope array in the... →
African radio astronomy cooperation framework being developed
26th March 2014 Ministers, Deputy Ministers and other representatives of South Africa, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia and... →
SKA will benefit African partners, but they must be ready
26th March 2014 The international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) programme will be most advantageous for Africa, South African Science and Technology Minister Derek... →
SA still has reservations about global trade talk trends
25th March 2014 Despite the Ninth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), held in Bali, Indonesia, from December 3 to 7, 2013, having... →
Minister reaffirms SA government's nuclear ambitions
18th March 2014 South African Minister of Energy Dikobe Ben Martins has stated that the government has a major long-term objective in the nuclear sector: "to be... →
SA nuclear sector needs to convince authorities of its capabilities
18th March 2014 South African Nuclear Energy Corporation (better known as Necsa) CEO Phumzile Tshelane has urged the local nuclear sector to adopt a different... →
Britain's R2-billion boost for the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope
11th March 2014 The UK has given a major boost to the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope programme by announcing funding of £100-million... →
Indian trade mission to SA hopes to generate millions in new business
6th March 2014 The Federation of Gujarat Industries (FGI) hopes that its current, nine day, trade mission to South Africa will, on its own, generate at least... →
Defence Minister warns on SANDF infrastructure and human resources
28th February 2014 South African Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has highlighted the poor state of much of the South African National... →
MoU signings mark development of SA offset programme for Malaysia
21st February 2014 Three Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) were signed between South African and Malaysian companies at the Malaysian High Commission in Pretoria on... →
African development priorities post-2015 outlined
23rd January 2014 With the United Nations (UN) system and its member states looking at issues regarding development after 2015, globally, regionally and nationally,... →
Celestial Mandela tribute from SA space engineers
10th December 2013 In a tribute to the late President Nelson Mandela South Africa’s only currently operational satellite, TshepisoSAT (previously known as ZACube-1... →
G20 important for world and Africa – Gordhan
11th November 2013 South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan believes that the Group of 20 leading economies (better known as the G20), of which South Africa is a... →
CSIR unveils locally developed digital laser
17th September 2013 The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) announced in Pretoria on Tuesday that it had developed the world's first digital laser.... →
Defence protects development but indigenisation needs funding
12th September 2013 South Africa's and Africa's armed forces play a key role in guaranteeing the conditions for development. So affirmed Department of Defence chief of... →
Nuclear exercise provisionally rated a success
11th September 2013 The preliminary evaluation by the National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) of the planned nuclear emergency exercise held on Wednesday at the South African... →
Air defence capabilities essential for countering rebels, criminals
10th September 2013 Air defence has ceased to be an issue of concern only in conventional warfare scenarios, a leading South African defence analyst has warned. "In... →
Eskom might not be sole future nuclear plant owner, as lessons from Medupi are absorbed
15th August 2013 The South African government is considering different ownership options for the country’s proposed new fleet of nuclear power stations, Department... →
SA 'committed to nuclear' – Energy Department DG
15th August 2013 Department of Energy (DoE) director-general Nelisiwe Magubane has reaffirmed the South African government’s commitment to nuclear power as part of... →
New SA nuclear build could create many jobs, billions in revenues, says Russian group
15th August 2013 Russian nuclear company Rusatom Overseas believes that it could generate thousands of jobs in South Africa if it is chosen to build the proposed... →
EU warns SA on investment treaties and export taxes
18th July 2013 European Commissioner for Trade Karl De Gucht bluntly warned on Thursday that South Africa's current and proposed policies on investment agreements... →
SA/EU summit in Pretoria to focus on jobs, investment
18th July 2013 The sixth South Africa/European Union (EU) summit was formally convened in Pretoria on Thursday. "We are happy to meet within the context of our... →
SA needs to urgently re-equip ground forces for African missions
17th July 2013 Given the current, and likely future, strategic circumstances in sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa urgently needs to re-equip its Special Forces and... →
France to boost ties with SA by State visit
15th July 2013 French President François Hollande will make a State visit to South Africa during the second half of October. This has been revealed by the new... →
Defence Department wants stronger SA defence industry and more local content
27th June 2013 The importance to South Africa of the country’s defence industry was asserted by the Secretary for Defence and Military Veterans, Dr Sam Gulube, on... →
Defence pushing army projects and seeking defence industry say
24th May 2013 The Department of Defence will push forward a number of acquisition programmes for the army during this financial year. It also wants to play a... →
SA to get new Presidential jet
24th May 2013 The South African Air Force (SAAF) will acquire one or more new “VVIP” aircraft during the current financial year. This was announced by Defence... →
The KAT is purring: SA’s new radio telescope starts delivering quality science
16th May 2013 South Africa’s first radio telescope array, the seven dish KAT-7 located in the Karoo, which was originally intended to be mainly an engineering... →
SA contributing about R190m to current phase of SKA radio telescope project
7th May 2013 South Africa has revealed the value of its commitments to the current, preconstruction, phase of the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA)... →
Indian diaspora links open opportunities for South African community
25th April 2013 The South African Indian community, part of India's global diaspora, can help increase trade and investment between South Africa and India,... →
Economic relationship between SA and India blossoming
25th April 2013 Bilateral trade between South Africa and India increased by 135% between 2007/2008 and 2011/2012, while Indian companies have invested... →
SA spends much less on defence in GDP terms than the global average
9th April 2013 outh Africa today spends about 1% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on defence, in comparison to the global average figure of 2.5%, reported... →
Hundreds of millions of rands for scientific expertise, infrastructure development
8th April 2013 Science and Technology Minister Derek Hanekom reassured the Deans of the Faculties of Sciences of South Africa’s universities on Friday about... →
SA astronomy to be overseen by new Sub-Agency
3rd April 2013 South Africa’s Department of Science and Technology (DST) announced on Tuesday that it is to establish an Astronomy Sub-Agency within the National... →
