JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Mining group Exxaro Resources is planning to significantly grow its energy generation projects up to 2030, Exxaro Growth Energy manager Thomas Garner said on Tuesday.
Speaking at the Southern Africa Energy Week conference, Garner said that the group was aiming to become a cleaner energy independent power producer (IPP) in the Southern African [...]

The new Pagani C9 supercar was recently spotten doing some test runs in Upington, South Africa where the car was being put through a rigorous hot weather test – temperatures were taken at around 39°C (102°F) – near the Kalahari desert. By all indications, it seems to be getting its pistons running in time for [...]

Blind Capetonian Hein Wagner is back with the need for more speed. This time Hein and his navigator Ray Wakefield will attempt to race a Grand Prix circuit.
In October of last year Hein claimed the world land speed record for a blind driver, piloting Lolly Jackson’s Mercedes-Benz SL65 Black Series AMG to a 322.5km/h run [...]

Safa has once again been recognised by Fifa for the continued development of referees and assistant referees

Two young referees, Daniel Volgraaf from Upington and Zakhele Siwela from Alexander Township, have been added to the 2010 Operational Panel of referees and assistant referees.
This brings the number of referees to 11 in the 2010 Fifa Operational Panel [...]

Take note that the De-Merit system is in place as from twelve o’ clock last night. Points are put on scale under your ID No. on the system for any traffic violations and thus you can unknowingly lose your license.

This morning, numerous people [...]

Airlink on Tuesday confirmed some of its suspended services would be cancelled due to “network consolidation”.
“Some of Airlink’s services will be permanently discontinued. These include: Port Elizabeth-Bloemfontein, Bloemfontein-George, Johannesburg-Mala-Mala,” the company said in a statement.
These routes had already been suspended when the Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) ordered a maintenance check on Airlink’s Jetstream aircraft.
People who [...]

Upington is the wild west of SA where German car makers take their machines for high-speed road testing and Alitalia and Air Afrique send their fleets of jets to die. A poignant image that reminded me of The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton (Hamish Hamilton, 2009) a review of which [...]

The festive-season flights of close to 50,000 ticket holders are in the balance with Transport Minister Sbu Ndebele to announce today whether he will ground SA Airlink.
Transport department spokesman Thami Ngidi said Ndebele would hold a meeting in Pretoria today to debrief the South African Civil Aviation Authority on his findings after he was handed [...]

While Afrikaners may no longer call the political shots in SA, their loud and innate democratic urges have been transferred to matters more important: which is the best boerewors in SA (a Checkers promotion featuring a distinctly vegetarian-looking chiskop Nataniël)? The best game biltong to match Stellenbosch Hills Pinotage? Which appellation produces the [...]

The Bloodhound Super Sonic Car will attempt to smash the world land speed record by racing at 1600km/h across the Hakskeen Pan in the Northern Cape in 2011.
Andy Green, who holds the world land speed record of 1227.93 km/h (763mph), will try smash his own record by topping 1600km/h on South Africa’s flat, dry Hakskeen [...]