--- title: "SOuth Africa Archives" description: "SOuth Africa" image: https://www.pragmaworld.net/wp-content/uploads/pragma-social-placeholder-blue.jpg canonical: https://www.pragmaworld.net/tag/south-africa/ url: https://pragma-world.getmd.ai/tag/south-africa/.md last_converted: 2026-10-29T03:56:49.749Z --- # Tag: SOuth Africa ##### When rivers cry out: How asset management can help heal South Africa’s waterways October 30, 2025 Author | Nelson Broden – Business Lead Pragma Managed Services The Hennops River, once part of Gauteng’s natural beauty, has become a warning bell. After heavy rainfall, stretches of the river have turned vivid green, fed by nutrients from failing wastewater works, leaking pipelines, and neglected infrastructure. Yet the Hennops is not alone — it’s [...] ##### Tags Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) Hennops River pollution Municipal asset management Pragma asset management River restoration South Africa Environmental collaboration initiatives Sustainable infrastructure maintenance Wastewater management solutions Water infrastructure Water quality and governance SOuth Africa ##### Digital Future Readiness in the South African Fuel Retail Sector November 24, 2020 South African Fuel Retail companies need to remain competitive and future-ready, be able to tackle current low economic growth, Political / Regulatory and social challenges and make use of new growth opportunities and optimise the scope for digitalisation. ##### Tags case study Culture Digital Environment Digitalisation Fuel Retail oil and gas Strategic Business Transformational Asset Management ecosystem Manufacturing Partnerships People SOuth Africa ##### Infrastructure Asset Performance in Southern Africa October 19, 2020 An opinion piece by Kolosa Madikizela, Managing Director Pragma  The economic landscape in Southern Africa has been on a downward spiral. Even South Africa has lost its status as Africa’s biggest economy, falling behind Nigeria at the end of 2019. This downward trend is severely impacting communities. As citizens, we have seen and been affected [...] ##### Tags Economic Economic Infrastructure Electricity Infrastruture NIgeria Proactive Enterprise Asset Management Southern Africa Sustainable Asset Management Water Enterprise Asset Management Kolosa Madikizela Pragma Africa SOuth Africa ##### Pragma | 30 Years in the making July 15, 2020 2020 might forever be known as the year in which Covid 19 struck, but life goes on despite this and many other challenges that businesses face. It is with this mindset, that we take a look back at an engineering firm that was born on the first of June 1990. “Politically South Africa was in [...] ##### Tags 30 Years AMIP Arnold Botha Asset Care Pack CMS Cost Digital Digital Transformation Empowering Supplier Industrial Engineering Information Technology IoT technology Level 1 Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Mobile Oil and Gas Industry Performance Pragma Brazil Risk University of Stellenbosch Adriaan Scheeres Asset Care Asset Management Asset Management Improvement Planning framework Covid19 Enterprise Asset Management IIoT Industry 4.0 Martec Netherlands On Key Physical Asset Management Pragma Pragma Academy Reatile Group SOuth Africa ##### A reflection on the 2020 SONA and budget speech March 24, 2020 By: Kolosa Madikizela (PrCM, PrCPM, PMP) – Managing Director Pragma Africa The proper management of physical assets is essential to the wellbeing of our society. As I step into my role as Pragma’s MD for Africa, this realisation is confirmed daily. Similarly, our latest State of the Nation Address (SONA), by President Cyril Ramaphosa, and [...] ##### Tags Budget Speech Enterprise Asset Management Government Kolosa Madikizela Partnerships Planning and Execution Pragma Africa SONA SOuth Africa