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The Rhino 100 Master Driller is a multi-functional, mobile raise bore driller used in the process of longhole stoping. Photo: Supplied
GOLD FIELDS

Mechanisation is still to come into its own in South Africa’s gold industry

Gold Fields’ South Deep hopes to turn the situation around with its super driller and indications are that extraction will shift from 85% to 93%.

  • Anathi Madubela
6 min read
AFRICA

Africa’s smallholder farmers get an ‘Uber’ for tractors

A farm equipment sharing application connects tractor owners and smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read
4IR and mechanisation threaten the livelihoods of unskilled South African farmworkers. (Photo: Reuters/Charles Mostoller)
4IR

Farmworkers and 4IR

Permanent jobs are shrinking in the farming sector

  • Nokutula Mhene
4 min read