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Women and the future of engineering in South Africa
31 August 2026
With women making up just 16% of registered engineering professionals in South Africa, AvenirHoldings CEO, Tshidi Mndzebele, is calling on women engineers and graduates to pursue formal professional registration as a key step to unlocking career growth and industry leadership.

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The effect of seasonal changes on ESD performance in South Africa
31 August 2026, Actum, Circuit & System Protection, Manufacturing / Production Technology, Hardware & Services
Electrostatic discharge performance is influenced by several environmental factors, with relative humidity being one of the most important. This is particularly relevant in South Africa, where seasonal changes can result in significant differences in humidity levels.

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Compact RTK design: More than just the receiver
31 August 2026, iCorp Technologies, Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT
In practice, engineers building compact RTK products keep discovering the same thing: the hardest component in the system is no longer the receiver. It is the antenna.

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The signal-to-noise challenge in large-scale IIoT
31 August 2026, Sigfox South Africa, Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT
For much of the last decade, the industrial IoT industry has been driven by a relatively simple assumption: if a little data is useful, more data must be better. That thinking shaped countless deployments.

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Women building South Africa’s power infrastructure
31 August 2026
As South Africa celebrates Women’s Month in August, women are increasingly taking their place on the factory floor, in technical workshops and across engineering environments, helping manufacture the infrastructure that keeps the country’s electricity network running.

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More efficient production with optimised procurement
31 August 2026
The smallest part on the BOM is usually the one that holds it up. Interconnect, passive and electromechanical components rarely get attention until they are missing. That is starting to change, and it is reshaping how procurement teams think about risk.

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Locate underground cable faults faster with the Fluke AF2082 A-Frame
31 July 2026, Comtest, Test & Measurement
Underground cable faults can lead to costly downtime, service disruptions, and extensive excavation if the fault location is uncertain. The AF2082 simplifies this process by guiding operators directly to the fault point.

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Here is what we learnt from three supply chain crises
31 July 2026, Seven Labs Technology
Component crises are not random events. They follow a pattern. After fifteen years and three major disruptions, Seven Labs knows exactly what that pattern demands, and what it takes to keep production lines moving.

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The new reality of PCB material supply
31 July 2026, Jemstech, Manufacturing / Production Technology, Hardware & Services
How resilient manufacturing strategies are helping OEMs navigate a changing global supply chain.

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Strengthening local electronics manufacturing through investment and innovation
31 July 2026, Microtronix Manufacturing, Manufacturing / Production Technology, Hardware & Services
Microtronix South Africa cements its commitment to local manufacturing with ongoing investments in production capacity, skills development, and job creation.

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From the editor's desk: Local can be international
31 July 2026, Technews Publishing, News
Welcome to the July 2026 issue of Dataweek. As you can see from this introduction, Dataweek’s regular editor, Peter Howells, is on extended leave and I am filling the void in his editor’s column – hopefully without being too boring.

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Solving South African power problems with locally built intelligence
29 June 2026, Power Electronics / Power Management
Smart metering infrastructure in South Africa remains patchy. The rollout has been slow, coverage is inconsistent, and for the most part, granular per-unit measurement simply does not exist.

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From the editor's desk: The art of measuring the truth
29 June 2026, Technews Publishing, News
All electronic measurements are a lie. The trick is making the lie as small as possible.

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Engineering for failure: why resilient telemetry matters more than perfect connectivity
29 June 2026, Sigfox South Africa, Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT
One of the biggest assumptions in modern tracking systems is that connectivity will always be available. From an engineering perspective, this creates an interesting problem.

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Lesley Havenga: Building partnerships for Africa’s electronics future
29 June 2026, News
As Würth Electronik expands its footprint across South Africa and the broader sub-Saharan region, Havenga’s blend of manufacturing expertise, supply chain knowledge, and people-centred leadership appears well suited to the task.

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Generating negative voltages from a positive supply
29 June 2026, Altron Arrow, Passive Components
It is common for IoT devices, industrial sensors, meters, and medical equipment to require both a positive and negative voltage, and this article explains the options available to produce a negative rail from a positive rail supply.

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PEAK’s first automotive Ethernet solution
29 June 2026, Industrial Data Xchange (IDX), Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT
The PAE-Media Converter is a robust and compact device designed to connect Automotive Ethernet (100BASE-T1 or 1000BASE-T1) with standard Ethernet (100BASE-TX or 1000BASE-T) networks.

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EMC limits and levels
29 May 2026, Altron Arrow, Circuit & System Protection
As soon as electronics and electrical systems started interfering with each other, the world had to come to some consensus. Considering physics is universal and does not care about what country electrical/electronic products are used in, it should be the same everywhere, right? It is nearly there, but not quite.

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Sigfox SA powers smart connectivity
29 May 2026, Sigfox South Africa, Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT
Sigfox South Africa is carving out a unique role, delivering low-power, wide-area network connectivity designed specifically for Internet of Things applications.

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Seeing through the noise
29 May 2026, RF Design, Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT
How Adaptive Long Coherent Integration (ALCI) delivers superior measurement and positioning performance where conventional receivers fall short.

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