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            <description><![CDATA[The South African National Space Agency (Sansa) has launched a competition for the country’s high school learners, for the design of an official mascot for the national space programme. Up to now, there has never been an official symbol or mascot to represent South Africa’s space activities. “A mascot gives people something to hold on to,” highlighted Sansa CEO Humbulani Mudau. “At home, it puts a face to our space programme and helps ordinary South Africans, especially young people, connect with an industry that can feel distant and highly technical. Abroad, it becomes a symbol that our country can rally behind – helping position us as a serious, creative and capable player in international space affairs. We want a mascot that says both.”]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) has launched South Africa’s Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) platform, which was designed to modernise and digitally transform South Africa’s visa and immigration system. The ETA improves mobility and migration management in South Africa and unlocks economic growth through tourism, investment and legitimate travel, while combating visa fraud and illegal immigration.]]></description>
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            <title>Data centres play a key role in driving economic growth – Equinix</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the role of digital infrastructure becomes increasingly important in supporting South Africa’s economic growth, data centres have become critical in shaping this landscape, serving customers in multiple industries such as financial services, construction, manufacturing and logistics. In addition to this, data centres also enable digital services such as e-commerce and online banking, thereby becoming fundamental to daily operations, Nasdaq-listed digital infrastructure company Equinix South Africa MD Sandile Dube said during a media event on August 11.]]></description>
            <author>Sabrina Jardim</author>
            <category>DATA CENTRES</category>
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            <title>Vodacom names Khumo Shuenyane as new chair</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Vodacom on Wednesday named Khumo Shuenyane as its chair starting July 2027, replacing Saki Macozoma, who will retire after his ten-year tenure. Vodacom has a self-imposed tenure of ten years for board members, the mobile operator said.]]></description>
            <author>  Reuters</author>
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            <title>The SKA Observatory has released a book detailing what scientists want to do with the SKA</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[With both elements of the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) under construction, the organisation responsible for creating and operating it, the SKA Observatory (SKAO), has released a book, “Advancing Astrophysics II’, that highlights the huge range of research that the SKA will allow. (A previous book had been published by the SKAO’s predecessor, the SKA Organisation, in 2015.) South Africa is hosting the SKA-Mid instrument, which will eventually have 197 dishes, incorporating the country’s own, existing, MeerKAT array, while Australia is hosting the SKA-Low instrument, which will eventually comprise 131 072 antennas. The SKA-Low released its first test image, captured using 1 024 antennas, in March last year. The SKA-Mid is expected to do the same later this year, using four dishes. The SKAO head office is hosted by the UK.]]></description>
            <author>Rebecca Campbell</author>
            <category>SCIENCE &amp; TECHNOLOGY</category>
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            <title>SALT part of urgent global observation campaign for a new supernova</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Karoo-based Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) has played a significant role in an urgent international collaboration to monitor a rarely observed phenomenon: the actual start and development of a supernova explosion. It started in March, when the Chinese-European Einstein Probe X-ray space telescope detected a brief flash of soft (lower energy) X-rays, from a galaxy some 500-million light-years distant (this flash was designated EP260321a). A global monitoring campaign was immediately implemented – ground-based telescopes started their observations of EP260321a within an hour of its discovery. These established that the phenomenon was a supernova, subsequently designated SN 2026gzf, that was brightening rapidly.    ]]></description>
            <author>Rebecca Campbell</author>
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            <title>ASP Isotopes says revenues increasing, three business units at inflection point for profitability</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Nasdaq- and JSE-listed advanced materials company ASP Isotopes (ASPI) says all its business units are making considerable progress, group revenues are increasing and three of its business units are at an inflection point and expected to make substantial contributions to achieving profitability in the near term. In an update to shareholders before the publication of the company's second-quarter financial results, ASPI CEO and executive chairperson Paul Mann says the two divisions responsible for the majority of near to mid-term earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) targets, namely radiopharmaceutical production company PET Labs and liquefied helium (LHe) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) producer Renergen, are operating ahead of internal expectations in terms of timing and potential profitability.]]></description>
            <author>Schalk Burger</author>
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            <title>Sasol commissions PEM electrolyser to advance local hydrogen technology capability</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[JSE-listed energy and chemicals group Sasol has, in collaboration with its public-sector and academic partners, commissioned a 2 kW proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyser system at the company's Research and Technology (R&T) campus, in Sasolburg, in the Free State. Over and above Sasol’s contribution, the electrolyser was developed with contributions from the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation's (DSTI's) Hydrogen South Africa (HySA) programme in partnership with the South African National Energy Development Institute (SANEDI) and North-West University.]]></description>
            <author>Lumkile Nkomfe </author>
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