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Linda van Tilburg

Sibanye-Stillwater leverages C5 Capital for uranium growth as Putin restricts exports

Sibanye-Stillwater sits on 27 million pounds of uranium at Beatrix mine in the Orange Free State and 32 million pounds on the surface in a tailings facility at its Cooke operations. The miner want to play a bigger role both upstream and downstream in the energy transition in the future. 

Ex-Trump top diplomat calls for tough stand on South Africa’s ‘foreign policy hypocrisy’

US Ambassador to South Africa Reuben Brigety promoted America’s interests in calling out ANC Govt on its Foreign Policy hypocrisy, says top ex-Trump diplomat. Hopefully President Trump’s appointee will also take a tough stand, Tibor Nagy said on X.

Trump’s deal-making and Africa critical minerals may benefit continent 

The fact that Africans have better access to strategic minerals is going to work in the interest of Africa.

Urgent call for enhanced space rules and US-China-Russia diplomatic reset

Ambassador Holliday called for the re-establishment of robust diplomatic networks to prevent misunderstandings and conflicts in space.

Philippines seeks to deepen US ties amid rising tensions with China

A milestone in US relations was achieved this May, marking the beginning of collaboration to utilise space for maritime domain awareness.

From genocide to African policeman: Rwanda ventures into space

“We are thinking big because space is playing a key role in many different programmes, whether it’s in our agriculture, whether it’s in weather-related type of incidents, whether it’s in education.

Ramaphosa should not align South Africa with NATO’s enemies, warns defence analyst Kobus Marais 

If you want to jeopardise all those sales, markets, and investments, then supporting NATO’s adversaries will only alienate our customers further.

Former astronaut Gen. Charles Bolden warns against kinetic weapons in space

Where you hit an object with a kinetic weapon, debris is generated in that orbit and below for months, if not years to come.

Why Ukraine entered Russia: Shifting the narrative, demonstrating strength, negotiation leverage

The incursion into Russia is “definitely a blow to Putin’s image” according to Prof Haran.  

Africa needs more than 10 million doses of vaccines for mpox outbreak 

There are only 200,000 doses of mpox vaccines available according to the Africa Centre for Disease Control (Africa CDC) has reported, resulting in a shortfall of 9.8 million.