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the establishment of the centres. “We believe that, through this partnership, we will also be able to further contribute to the success of developing mining capacity and capability in the research space,” said Le Roux.

Participating universities

Every research centre within each university will have specialised areas of focus. Wits will have two research centres, each with their own focal area: Successful Applications of Technologies Centred Around People (Satcap) and Real-time Information Management Systems (RTIMS). Both centres are under the university’s Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment and fall within the Wits Mining Institute.

Professor Thokozani Majozi, executive dean: Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at Wits University, welcomed the official launch of the research centres; however, he cautioned against losing sight of the potential collaborations that