World trade body urges Africa to stay abreast with new technology
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has warned against the potential of emerging technologies creating a greater…
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Update: Missing woman found
The search for Mrs Colette Eksteen, the Stellenbosch women who went missing in Table Mountain last week, ended in tragedy, when her body was…
COVAX vaccine lands in Ghana; with Zipline ready for last mile delivery
The first global shipment of free COVID-19 vaccines, to be distributed to low- and middle-income countries under the World Health Organisati…
Wanted: delivery drones that can fly 300km
The World Health Organisation and VillageReach's DMs are open. The world health body and VillageReach, an international non-profit organ…
Western Cape drone unit called in to help... again
The drone unit from the Western Cape Emergency Medical Services have been called in to help again, this time with finding a lady who is assu…
WeRobotics secures more funds for STEM education in Global South
And WeRobotics has gone and done it again. We think it is allowed to run out of superlatives to applaud the lengths the non-profit drone …
Anti-poaching drone on the horizon
Robert Miller loves wildlife. So much that he is building a drone to protect wildlife from poachers. The Cape Town, South Africa based…
Wingcopter hops on board as Flying Labs' wingman
Weiterstadt, GERMANY – The future of delivery drones in Africa just got a little brighter. Maybe not the whole of Africa yet, but at le…
High time the African Union gave drone technology the real chance it deserves
We have a bone to chew with the African Union. Five years after the then AU Commission chairperson, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma appointed a…
Drone helps save hiker on Table Mountain, Cape Town
DJI Matrice 200 to the rescue. Video: WCGH EMS It is February 15 today; exactly two months to the day the Western Cape Government Health�…
Drones lead landslide rescue efforts in biggest drone operation in Europe
Around 4AM in Norway on the 30th of December last year, a hillside gave way in the village of Ask in the Gjerdrum region in eastern Norway, …
Drones to track off-road criminals in Solihull, UK
Police in the West Midlands town of Solihull in the United Kingdom are deploying drones to parks and public spaces in the hope of catching o…