BMW Group South Africa CEO Peter van Binsbergen BMW Group South Africa marked 20 years of its IT Hub in Menlyn, Pretoria, on Wednesday, revealing that a team based in the city built the AI systems now inspecting vehicles on BMW’s assembly lines around the world. The hub, which started with 11 employees in 2006,…
Freshly crowned African champions Mamelodi Sundowns showed off their TotalEnergies CAF Champions League trophy to thousands of adoring fans in a day-long trophy parade in the nation’s capital of Pretoria. The open-bus parade took place on Tuesday, kicking off at Sundowns traditional home Mamelodi before travelling to various Pretoria townships and the city centre where…
In a monumental shift for the South African automotive landscape, Nissan and Chery have reached an agreement for the Chinese automaker to acquire Nissan’s historic manufacturing facility in Rosslyn, Pretoria. This deal marks the conclusion of nearly 60 years of Nissan vehicle assembly in South Africa and signals the first major move into local manufacturing…
Pieter Pienaar, an MCom Accounting Sciences student at the University of Pretoria (UP), has been named the winner of the 2025 Microsoft Excel Collegiate Challenge (MECC), which was held alongside the Microsoft Excel World Championship (MEWC) in Las Vegas, USA from 1-3 December. Pieter Pienaar with his MECC trophy – Credit FMWC The MECC, founded…
