The South African inventor behind speed guns in sports
South African engineer Henri Johnson invented the world’s first Doppler radar speed gun specifically for ball tracking in sports.
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Amazon founder’s rocket company makes space history
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin completed a suborbital joyride Saturday with a six-person crew, including the first wheelchair user to reach space and one of SpaceX’s first engineers.
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Uber and Bolt have very different car standards in South Africa
MyBroadband compared the ways in which Bolt and Uber assess whether vehicles are suitable for their ride-hailing services.
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CFAM AgriTech | Crime | farm attacks | farm murders | HerdTrack | Science
Tech fighting a rural crime bigger than farm attacks in South Africa
While farm attacks and murders are undoubtedly a serious problem, another crime occurs hundreds of times more frequently in rural areas.
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40km of fibre, 23km of water pipes, and enough tar to cover four rugby fields — South Africa’s new university takes shape
The developer behind Solidarity’s private Afrikaans university campus has detailed the sheer scale of the infrastructure that will be rolled out at the R3.2-billion facility over the next two years.
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Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) | digital laser | lasers | optic fibre | Sandile Ngcobo | Science
The man from a rural Zulu village whose laser breakthrough could reshape telecoms, surgery, and data storage
Ngcobo’s invention is being tested for various applications, including precision surgeries, materials processing, and in boosting bandwidth over free-space and fibre optic communications.