With five more weekly newsletters to go, and just a few more sleeps until you find yourself pushing and shoving in a crowded shopping mall searching for that one last gift, the news flow is yet to slow! All
26 of our industry newsletters are jam-packed with what's what with the who's who.
The annual
Checkers/Shoprite Toy 4 Toy campaign launched this week, so if you have any new or used toys laying about that little Susie's outgrown, why not donate them to a less fortunate child. The campaign runs until early December.
After Randall Abrahams handed over the SAMA CEO baton to Nlanhla Sibisi, the
2013 MTN South African Music Awards is now open for entries. Look out for a few category changes here and there, and have your entries in by 30 November 2012. As my father recites whenever buying his
tata ma chance ticket, you have to be in it, to win it...
Still on the topic of winning, well done to the KZN-based African Centre for Crop Improvement for
scoring its first award! Conferred by A Green Revolution for Africa for "exceptional contributions to food security in Africa", the ACCI received its award from Nobel peace prize laureate Kofi Annan.
Lastly, in an endeavour to keep our coasts clean and our marine life protected, the Western, Northern and Eastern Cape coasts will soon have
bins in which fishermen can discard broken or used line. The project, successfully implemented along the Overberg's Gansbaai shoreline, uses PVC pipe as bins for fishing line. According to John Kieser, sustainability manager of Plastics|SA, the project has received plenty of support from the public and fishermen have also welcomed the initiative. Well done to all involved!
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According to BDLive, Lonmin thwarted Xstrata's plans to create a new platinum and ferrochrome company by taking control of Lonmin, but the world's third-largest platinum miner has left the door open for the diversified group to try again. 
The Voorspoed mine owned by De Beers plans to ramp up production by 30% to 800,000 carats over the next two years, the mine's general manager, Mpumi Zikalala, said last week. 
Gold Fields and the University of the Witwatersrand officially opened the Gold Fields Engineering Library at the Wits Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment recently, and intends to make a major contribution towards the alleviation of skills shortages in the South Africa mining sector. 
Aquarius Platinum announced it has appointed a new chief executive, the latest management shake-up in a sector crippled by labour unrest and falling profits, Fin24 reports. 
Goindustry Dovebid South Africa (go-dove.com) will hold its seventh multi-vendor online auction of construction and mining equipment. The auction is scheduled to close on October 31. 
