Cape Gate Fence and Wire Works remains a family-run business but is still growing and continues to enter new African markets. "It is ironic we started with the name Cape Gate as we are now starting to put a range of security gates on the market. These are steel gates that are used in front of your doorway for security purposes. Having a problem with crime in South Africa, it is something that is unavoidable so every household needs a security gate," says Roux. Cape Gate currently employs 400 people at its 20,000sqm Cape Town plant. The company has a footprint of ...

Bauer Technologies, a subsidiary of Bauer Resources GmbH headquartered near Munich in Germany, is based in Johannesburg with an annual turnover of around R70 million. The Bauer Group worldwide is split into three divisions; foundation contractors, drilling equipment suppliers and operators under one umbrella. Area Manager Africa Lars Roesler explains: "We are a globalised company with a lot of synergies in our group. Bauer Technologies in South Africa is a one-stop shop for the resource industry. Clients can come to us for engineering and either the supply of materials ...

Safika Oosthuizens Transport was established in 1948 by Frik Oosthuizen, who had 'nothing more than a dream to improve his family's current standard of living, during the midst of the Depression.' The company today is a far cry from the small transportation firm established in 1948; 90 percent of the company's focus is concentrated on coal and it transports between four and five million tonnes of coal per month between 12 depots in three African countries. In 2005 Safika Holdings Ltd - a black empowerment group - bought into the business and they have since increased ...

Managing Director Marcel Lamprecht tells African Business Review that he believes CIC Holdings manages risk so the customer does not have to Managing Director Marcel Lamprecht believes that CIC are able to provide a complete logistics service to its clients. "Our unique selling point is we give our customers the full spectrum of service here," says Lamprecht. "We take the risk of purchasing a product and selling it on. The 36 principals we handle only have one debtor in Namibia which is CIC; this makes it easier for them to manage their risk." CIC has been able to ...

Northern Haulage, based in Johannesburg, South Africa, began operations in 2002. The company operates in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, servicing cross border transport to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Mozambique, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. Northern Haulage, with 260 employees, specialises in the supply and transportation to the agricultural, mining and civil engineering sectors that by their very nature include abnormal loads. Northern Haulage, through strategic alliances, has offices located in Johannesburg, Harare, ...

Park West Gallery's global goodwill initiative, Park West Gallery CARES, spread the joy of art appreciation to a group of elementary students in the Detroit Public Schools system. On Thursday, March 3, Park West Gallery Director Morris Shapiro gave an inspiring lecture to ninety fifth grade students at Thirkell Elementary in Detroit, Michigan. Fine art from the Park West Gallery collection was brought to the inner city school and exhibited as Shapiro spoke to the fascinated students. Park West Gallery also presented Principal Clara Smith with a framed work of art and ...

"Accreditation by the HON Foundation means that http://www.aboutcataractsurgery.com/ is in full compliance with the HON principles (http://www.hon.ch/HONcode/Conduct.html) which serves as the basis for its initiative to improve and maintain the quality and integrity of health and medical information on the World Wide Web," said Katherine Carlisle, a Managing Partner of Medical Management Services Group, L.L.C. http://www.aboutcataractsurgery.com/ is structured to provide potential eye surgery patients with useful and reliable information about cataract symptoms, how ...

A run of performances by The Bolshoi Ballet in Paris will be a treat for fans of the genre. The company will be on stage showcasing one programme from May 5th to May 15th 2011 and a second production from May 10th until May 14th, with all the action taking place at the Palais Garnier. Flammes de Paris and Don Quixote will be acted out by dancers from the Russian arts institution. While the former is a dramatic piece set during the French revolution, the latter is a classic of the ballet canon. Alexei Fadeechev's 1999 reimagining of the story will be performed. The ...

The 2011 International Rugby Sevens Adelaide tournament takes place in South Australia at the start of next month. Some 16 of the world's best teams will compete as they look to lift the title and climb the ladder of the HSBC Sevens World Series. England and New Zealand currently sit top of the table after four events with 80 points apiece. Australia are lying in sixth behind Samoa, Fiji and South Africa. The sides are split into four pools, with the top two progressing to the Cup Championship stage. Third and fourth places still have plenty to play for, as they ...

A new exhibition celebrating the career of one of Australia's biggest musical exports opens in Perth next month. AC/DC: Australia's Family Jewels takes a look at a band who have produced 18 original albums spanning four decades, shifting more than two million copies in the process. The installation at the Western Australia Museum (WAM) in Perth features over 400 items of memorabilia, including photographs, instruments, gig posters, lyrics and clothing. Among the extremely rare garments on display is one of Angus Young's schoolboy outfits, plus the home-sewn Super ...

The new WorkBoat Offshore Service Vessel Report provides key information and analysis to help OSV operators, shipyards and others make important market and financing decisions to better position them for the future. "The WorkBoat OSV Report is a valuable reference tool for vessel and rig operators, financial analysts, marine finance experts and others who work in and do business with the offshore energy service sector," said David Krapf, editor in chief of WorkBoat magazine. Jerry Greenberg, Gulf of Mexico correspondent for WorkBoat and WorkBoat.com, conducted the ...

Zammit & Associates - Advocates has launched its new website, at www.zammit-law.com. The redesigned site embodies the firm's forward-thinking vision and commitment to the needs of visitors using the firm's web-based information resources. Based on extensive research with its clients and internal staff, the website now offers: - Valuable legal content contributed by the firm's practitioners - Direct access to news and publications - Streamlined searching and more intuitive navigation - A ship and vessel registration fee calculator facilitating the computation of ...

At The Beach is a proud sponsor of the Mrs. Colorado Pageant, which was held March 3-5 this year. At The Beach gave the opportunity to access unlimited tanning (both UV and UV-free) to all 46 contestants. The Mrs. Colorado Pageant is a preliminary pageant to the Mrs. America Pageant. Mrs. Colorado contestants are married women, including mothers and grandmothers. Emily Stark, the Colorado director for the Mrs. America Pageant system says, "The Mrs. America Pageant recognizes the one person who contributes so much to modern family life ... America's married woman." At ...

Halfpricesoft.com released the new version of its popular ezPaycheck paryoll software, which gives small businesses and non-profits the easy-to-use and affordable payroll tax solution they need to get started on the right foot. The latest edition of ezPaycheck implements the 2011 cut in payroll taxes, along with new income-tax withholding tables that employers will use during 2011. It also supplies users with even more control and flexibility. New features, like customized reporting dates, flexible tax set-up options, and data export functions meet the needs of small ...

The following highlights summarize research papers that have been recently published in Geophysical Research Letters (GRL), Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres (JGR-D), Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans (JGR-C) and Paleoceanography. 1. Huge ocean "Frisbees™" spin off Brazil's coast As the North Brazil Current (NBC) moves northward along the northeastern coast of Brazil, it draws water from the South Equatorial Current and the freshwater outflow of freshwater from the Amazon River, providing warm, nutrient-rich water to areas north of the equator. Just ...

March 17, 2011 — (BRONX, NY) — Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered that members of an enzyme family found in humans and throughout the plant and animal kingdoms play a crucial role in regulating cell motility. Their findings suggest an entirely new strategy for treating conditions ranging from diabetic ulcers to metastatic cancer. David Sharp, Ph.D., associate professor of physiology & biophysics, was the senior author of the study, which was published in the March 6 online edition of Nature Cell Biology. "Cells in ...

San Diego, Calif., USA – Today, during the 89th General Session & Exhibition of the International Association for Dental Research, held in conjunction with the 40th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Dental Research and the 35th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Dental Research, lead researcher T. Nguyen will hold an oral presentation on a study titled "Mandibular Changes Produced by Skeletal Anchorage Assisted Orthopedic Traction." The objective of this study was to evaluate three-dimensional changes in the mandible and glenoid fossa of consecutive ...

San Diego, Calif., USA – Saturday, March 19, during the 89th General Session & Exhibition of the International Association for Dental Research, held in conjunction with the 40th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Dental Research and the 35th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Dental Research, a symposium titled "Novel Approaches to Bacterial Caries Management: an Efficacious Solution in View?" will take place. This symposium will occur from 8 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. in room 7AB of the San Diego Convention Center. Although caries is a preventable disease, ...

San Diego, Calif., USA – Saturday, March 19, during the 89th General Session & Exhibition of the International Association for Dental Research, held in conjunction with the 40th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Dental Research and the 35th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Dental Research, lead researcher A.N.M. Nazmul-Hossaini will hold an oral presentation on a study titled "Validation of Salivary-Biomarkers for Sjögren's Syndrome Detection in US Population." Recently, a panel of discriminatory salivary transcriptomic and proteomic biomarkers ...

A puzzling example of altruism in nature has been debunked with researchers showing that purple-crowned fairy wrens are in reality cunningly planning for their own future when they assist in raising other birds' young by balancing the amount of assistance they give with the benefits they expect to receive in the future. Dr Anne Peters, of the Monash University School of Biological Sciences, together with co-authors Sjouke Kingma from the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology and Michelle L. Hall of the Australian National University, have conducted a long term study of ...

A team of researchers from the University of Montreal and McGill University have discovered a type of "cellular bilingualism" – a phenomenon that allows a single neuron to use two different methods of communication to exchange information. "Our work could facilitate the identification of mechanisms that disrupt the function of dopaminergic, serotonergic and cholinergic neurons in diseases such as schizophrenia, Parkinson's and depression," wrote Dr. Louis-Eric Trudeau of the University of Montreal's Department of Pharmacology and Dr. Salah El Mestikawy, a researcher at ...

When Geoffrey Murphy, Ph.D., talks about plastic structures, he's not talking about the same thing as Mr. McGuire in The Graduate. To Murphy, an associate professor of molecular and integrative physiology at the University of Michigan Medical School, plasticity refers to the brain's ability to change as we learn. Murphy's lab, in collaboration with U-M's Neurodevelopment and Regeneration Laboratory run by Jack Parent, M.D., recently showed how the plasticity of the brain allowed mice to restore critical functions related to learning and memory after the scientists suppressed ...

Berkeley — A major milestone in microfluidics could soon lead to stand-alone, self-powered chips that can diagnose diseases within minutes. The device, developed by an international team of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, Dublin City University in Ireland and Universidad de Valparaíso Chile, is able to process whole blood samples without the use of external tubing and extra components. The researchers have dubbed the device SIMBAS, which stands for Self-powered Integrated Microfluidic Blood Analysis System. SIMBAS appeared as the cover story ...

There are potential legal ramifications for physicians of patients who drive with cognitive impairment, according to a study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Institute. Between 20 and 60 percent of patients with cirrhosis (a condition in which the liver is permanently scarred or injured by chronic conditions and diseases) are affected by a peculiar kind of cognitive impairment, also known as hepatic encephalopathy (HE), which can range from mild to overt. This impairment can include ...

MADISON, WI MARCH 17, 2011 – Nitrous oxide is a potent greenhouse gas and a precursor to compounds that contribute to the destruction of the ozone. Intensively managed, grazed pastures are responsible for an increase in nitrous oxide emissions from grazing animals' excrement. Biochar is potentially a mitigation option for reducing the world's elevated carbon dioxide emissions, since the embodied carbon can be sequestered in the soil. Biochar also has the potential to beneficially alter soil nitrogen transformations. Laboratory tests have indicated that adding biochar ...