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African Utility Week has announced that Lucy Electric, a longstanding partner of the event, will be the exclusive diamond sponsor at this year's exhibition and conference in Cape Town from 15-17 May.

The Lubumbashi-based non-profit BUMI is DRC Mining Week's project of choice as social responsibility outreach programme. Currently BUMI provides global care to 150 children.

Approximately seven million prepaid electricity meters in South Africa need to be reset before November 2024 as the system that runs the credit tokens will run out of numbers at this time and all existing meters will stop accepting credit tokens.

The Property Buyer Show, taking place on the 21st and 22nd of April 2018, is an ideal platform for anyone looking to buy their first home or add to their property portfolio

The Zambian President, H.E. Edgar Lungu, will attend the official opening of the Agritech Expo Zambia outdoor farming exhibition that returns for the fifth time to Chisamba from 12-14 April.

The active online agri community called the Small Scale Farmers – Farming as a Business - on Facebook will have a strong presence as official partners of the upcoming Agritech Expo Zambia in Chisamba from 12-14 April.

An AUW survey shows solar PV is overwhelmingly seen as the most promising generation source for Africa while corruption, skills gaps and access to finance are some of the biggest challenges that power and water professionals face in their industries

A strong focus on livestock, live equipment demonstrations, nethouse and aquaculture showcases and free AgriTEACH interactive training workshops are just some of the exciting, new features that will be available at Agritech Expo Zambia in April.

"I believe the demand for cobalt, and copper to a lesser extent, will override the financial impacts of the revised DRC Mining Code," says Laura Cornish, editor of the mining trade journal Mining Review Africa.

"Nature or Water, exploring how we can use nature to overcome the water challenges of the 21st century" is the theme of this year's World Water Day which is on 22 March. The scientific discipline of biomimicry employs the same approach.