AfriRock 2017

Sponsorship Opportunities

Sponsorship Opportunities

Companies wishing to sponsor or exhibit should contact:
Camielah Jardine
Head of Conferencing
Tel: (011) 834-1273/7
Fax: (011) 833-8156 or (011) 838-5923
Email: camielah@saimm.co.za

The following opportunities are available:

• Premium Sponsor (Only four (4) opportunities available)
• Exhibition Sponsor
• Banner Sponsor
• Conference Bag / Satchel  Sponsor
• Welcoming Network Function Sponsor
• Dinner Sponsor
• Pens & Pads Sponsor
• Technical Visit Sponsor
• Advertising Sponsor

Download the Sponsorship Opportunities options (DOC, 260KB)

Keynote Speakers

Keynote Speakers

On behalf of the organising committee we would like to thank the following Keynote Speakers that will be presenting at the conference:

Nick Barton obtained a London University B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from King’s College in 1966, and a Ph.D. concerning shear strength and rock slope stability from Imperial College in 1971. He worked for two long periods at NGI in Oslo, and for four years at TerraTek in Salt Lake City. Since 2000 he has had his own international rock engineering one-man consultancy, Nick Barton & Associates, based in Oslo and São Paulo. He has consulted on several hundred rock engineering projects in a total of 38 countries during 45 years, has 260 publications as first or single author, and has written two books, one on TBM prognosis, the other linking rock quality and seismic attributes of rock masses at all scales. He is currently writing a book with Bandis: Engineering in jointed and faulted rock (expected 2017). He has ten international awards including the 6th Müller Lecture of ISRM. He developed the widely used Q-system for classifying rock masses, and for selecting rock tunnel and cavern single-shell support in 1974. He was originator of the rock joint shear strength parameters JRC and JCS and co-developer of the resulting Barton-Bandis constitutive laws for rock joint coupled M-H modelling in 1982, which was incorporated as a sub-routine in UDEC-BB in 1985. He has also developed the Qtbm prognosis method and Qslope for selecting maintenance-free rock cutting and bench-face angles. His chief areas of consulting activity have been in hydropower tunnelling and cavern construction and performance, nuclear waste disposal site characterization, metro tunnels and caverns, and site characterization at high dams. He has given more than thirty five keynote lectures in international conferences.     

Presentation Title: Lessons learnt from large failures: geology, stress and support

Paul Buddery graduated with his PhD in 1984 and has spent over 30 years as a coal mining rock mechanic. He first joined the Chamber of Mines of South Africa before moving onto Trans-Natal / Ingwe. He then had various consulting positions for 20 years before joining Anglo American in early 2015. His experience has primarily been in Australia and South Africa but has also included the UK, the USA, Indonesia, Russia, Poland, New Zealand and Italy, and encompasses longwall mining, bord and pillar, pillar extraction, partial extraction, auger mining, raise bore shafts and cross-measures drifts.

Presentation Title: The Grosvenor strata control journey: learning and adapting from new and challenging experiences

Sergio Fontoura is a Civil Engineer and has a PhD degree in Rock Mechanics. He is a professor of civil engineering at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he leads a research laboratory dedicated to the development of solutions to the oil industry based on the concepts of experimental and computational geomechanics. He is closely associated with the International Society for Rock Mechanics having represented Brazil at the ISRM Council for the past 13 years and he is the current Vice-President for South America. He has supervised over 100 students at both MSc and PhD level and written over 150 technical and scientific papers. He is the Chairman of ISRM Petroleum Geomechanics Commission.

Presentation Title: How rock mechanics can help oil well drilling – Latest developments

Luís Lamas graduated in Civil Engineering at the University of Lisbon (1981), obtained an MSc in Engineering Rock Mechanics at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London (1986) and a PhD at the University of London (1993). In 1981 he joined the Portuguese National Laboratory for Civil Engineering (LNEC), where he worked at the Underground Construction Division. In 1994 he moved to Macau, China to work at the Macau Civil Engineering Laboratory (LECM), where his work consisted of geotechnical consultancy for several large projects. In 1997 he was appointed President of LECM and he kept this position until February 2003. He then returned to LNEC where he is currently a Senior Researcher and Head of the Modelling and Rock Mechanics Unit.
Dr. Lamas is the Secretary General of the International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM) since 2003, and has contributed to several ISRM technical Commissions. From 2004 to 2008 he was Vice President of the Portuguese Geotechnical Society. Dr. Lamas is the author of over 50 publications dealing mainly with rock engineering. He has been involved in studies for support to the design of large underground works, namely of hydroelectric schemes, in Portugal and abroad, including laboratory and field tests and numerical modelling. He is also engaged in monitoring and safety assessment of underground structures during construction and service life. His main research interests are in situ tests, hydromechanical behaviour of rock masses, stresses in rock masses, tunnelling in rock and dam foundations. He is currently member of the ISRM Commission on the Evolution of Eurocode 7 and has been involved in the CEN Working Groups dealing with the revision of the Eurocode 7. 

Presentation Title: Stress measurements for underground powerhouses - three recent cases

Nielen van der Merwe is currently principal consultant at Stable Strata Consulting and a Visiting Professor, School of Mining Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand – operating in semi-retirement from the east coast of South Africa.
Industry experience totals some 30 years at the mines of major mining companies now known as Sibanye Gold, BHP Billiton and Sasol Mining. Academic experience totals more than16 years. Previous academic appointments include Head of Mining Engineering, University of Pretoria, Professor of Rock Engineering in the Centennial Chair at the University of the Witwatersrand and Director, Wits Mining Research Institute. Past President of a number of societies including SANIRE, the ISRM, FeDIGS and the SAIMM. 

Presentation Title: Mythperceptions in Rock Engineering

Dick Stacey graduated initially as a mechanical engineer with a particular interest in stress analysis. He worked under Dick Bieniawski in the Rock Mechanics Division at CSIR’s National Mechanical Engineering Research Institute in South Africa before spending a year at the Imperial College of Science and Technology as an Academic Visitor in the Engineering Geology Department. He spent 25 years with SRK Consulting, and was Chairman of the South African Company, before joining the School of Mining Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2000 as Centennial Professor of Rock Engineering. He retired at the end of 2008, but continues to participate in the School of Mining Engineering activities. He has a doctorate in rock engineering and 40 years of working experience. 

Presentation Title: Rock engineering as a creator of value

Organising Committee

Organising Committee

We would like to thank the following on the organising committee for their invaluable assistance:

W Joughin (Chairman)
R Armstrong
R Carstens
S Coetsee
P Couto
B Crompton
M du Plessis
Y Jooste
J Kwofie
J Lucas
F Malan
O Mandingaisa
D Mossop
S Murphy
P Mushangwe
D Neal
D O’Connor
T Stacey
V Visser
J Walls

In addition we would like to thank the following ISRM Board members for their contribution:

Scientific Committee

Scientific Committee

R Armstrong
N Ayres
F Basson
I Basson
W Barnett
M Brown
R Carstens
H Chiwaye
S Coetsee
B Crompton
D Donati
M Dunn
R Durrheim
K du Plooy
K Esmaeili
A Esterhuizen
S Fontoura
L Gardner
M F Handley
J Hanekom
G Hofmann
C Holland
E Hormazabal
G Howell
L Human
S Jeon
W Joughin
G Kotze
S Kwon
L Lamas
L Linzer
J Lucas
F Malan
O Mandingaisa
W Mahne
A McCracken
K B Min
D Minney
H Mitri
D Mossop
P Mpunzi
J Muaka
J Muralha
J Napier
D Neal
D O’Connor
D Olivier
P Piper
C Pretorius
G Priest
S Read
D Roberts
M Royale
B Rysdahl
L Scheepers
J Severin
D Sewnun
K Shin
B Simser
A Sfriso
S Spottiswoode
T R Stacey
J J Song
L Sousa
D Stead
P Terbrugge
H Thomas
C Tuitz
A Turichshev
G van Aswegen
J N van der Merwe
D Walker
J Walls
B Watson
J Wesseloo
H Yilmaz
H Yasuhara

Preliminary Programme

Preliminary Programme

Download: AfriRock Prelim Prog 19092017.pdf

* Kindly note: Preliminary programme may be subjected to change

Abstracts

Abstracts

The organising committee would like to thank all participants that submitted abstracts to the AfriRock 2017 conference.

A list of accepted abstract can be downloaded by clicking HERE

Who should attend

Who should attend

• Rock engineering practitioners
• Researchers
• Academics
• Mining engineers
• Civil engineers
• Petroleum engineers
• Engineering geologists

Topics

Topics

• Fracture and damage of rocks
• Deformation of rock
• Numerical modelling
• Ground consolidation
• Constitutive models
• Specialised blasting to minimise rock damage
• Rock mechanics data
• Testing methods
• Instrumentation and monitoring
• Rock mechanics in underground mines
• Petroleum rock mechanics
• Slope stability
• Ground support
• Caving mechanics
• Subsidence
• Design of tunnels and caverns
• Risk in rock engineering design
• Mechanics of fracking
• Crustal stress and earthquakes
• Mine seismicity and rockbursts
• Radioactive waste disposal
• Underground nuclear plants

Workshops

Workshops

Empirical methods, rock mechanics, and structural geological methods useful for excavation in jointed/fractured media

One-Day Short Course

2 October 2017 • Cape Town Convention Centre

Lecturers: Dr Nick Barton and Prof. John Cosgrove

This one-day short course will cover some key elements of the lecturers’ developments and work in rock mechanics, rock engineering and structural geology, respectively. The course will start with the Q-system, an example of observational empiricism, using a key-note treatment of rock mass classification and its many site-interpretation and tunnel-and-cavern design aspects. In the first structural geology lecture, a brief reminder is given of some fundamentals: stress, brittle failure and the factors that determine the fracture spacing, regularity and continuity of fractures within a fracture set, in other words important parts of our input geometries for rock mechanics, modelling, and empiricism. TBM tunnelling performance will follow, from world records to more common performance, especially problems caused by fault zones. The QTBM prognosis method for estimating penetration rate PR and advance rate AR, will also be described and illustrated. The second structural geology lecture will be about the bulk properties of a fractured rock mass, such as connectivity, conductivity and strength. Each is sensitive to the geometry of the fracture network it contains. The non-linear strength of rock, and rock joint characterization and shear strength will be covered next, as these are fundamental to many areas of rock engineering and needed for input to realistic numerical UDEC-BB and 3DEC (jointed) modelling. Fundamentals of rock mass anisotropy, concerning many important properties, including deformability, velocity and permeability, will each be emphasised, to contrast with today’s commonly applied isotropic modelling. Non-isotropic and inhomogeneous properties are the rule we must expect.

Download the announcement (PDF, 1.2MB)

Technical Visits

Technical Visits

The following technical visits are confirmed for the conference:

• SANIRE Presidential Tour
• Chapmans Peak
• Palabora - Mine
• TauTona - Deep Mine

SANIRE Presidential Tour
Date: 25-29 September 2017
 
The purpose of the Presidential tour is to expose the members of SANIRE to new and different working environments within the Rock Engineering / Geological field. For more information contact Paul.coutopm@gmail.com / Paul.couto@harmony.co.za / 083 391 9243

Download
SANIRE Presidents Tour 2017 - Brochure (PDF, 872KB)
SANIRE PT 2017 Registration forms Sponsorship (PDF, 428KB)

Chapmans Peak
Date: 6 October 2017

The Chapmans Peak Tour is an excellent opportunity to see rockfall protection strategy. The tour also visits various local attractions and the fantastic geology of Cape Point, the tour takes place on the 6th October

Deep Level Mine Visit
Date: 6 October 2017
Visit the deepest gold mine in the world during the Tautona and Mponeng Deep Level Gold Mine Tour in Carletonville on the 6th October.

The technical visit will require delegates to travel from Cape Town to Johannesburg on 5 October 2017. The SAIMM will arrange transport to the mine will leave from Emperors Palace, Johannesburg at 5am on the morning of 6 October 2017.
 
You can make accommodation bookings at Emperors Palace via http://www.emperorspalace.com/
 
Flight and accommodation bookings are for your own account.

Key Dates

Key Dates

09 December 2016       Submission of abstracts
12 December 2016       Acceptance of abstracts
03 March 2017             Submission of final papers
30 Sept – 06 Oct '17     Symposium

Associated Events

Associated Events

2 October 2017

Institute of Mine Seismology Mini-Seminar

The Institute of Mine Seismology (IMS) is the leading provider of microseismic monitoring technology to mines world wide. IMS is an independent private research organization focused on developing methodologies, technologies and services for monitoring and modelling the seismic rock mass response to mining.

Since its inception in 1990, IMS has held an annual Mine Seismology Seminar at its locations around the globe. After the successful 27th annual IMS Seminar in Sudbury earlier this year, IMS will host a Mini-Seminar on Microseismic Monitoring in Mines in Stellenbosch. The event complements the AfriRock 2017 programme: it is an opportunity for regional and international users, practitioners and researchers to meet and discuss the latest seismological analysis techniques and technology in mining.

The IMS Mini-Seminar takes place on 2 October, while the AfriRock 2017 technical sessions take place 3 – 5 October. Transport to and from the Cape Town International Convention Centre to the IMS Mini-Seminar in Stellenbosch can be arranged.

Further information, including cost, technical programme and registration details are available at http://www.imseismology.org/seminars_2017/.

RockBowl AfriRock 2017

RockBowl AfriRock 2017

4 October 2017

The RockBowl competition is based on a drive by the International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM) to increase Young Membership and grow the interest amongst Young Rock Mechanics. The first international competition was hosted in Montreal, Canada in 2015, whereby South Africa had a team participate. Since this experience SANIRE has continued to run a local competition in 2016 and 2017. This has become an annual event and will continue into the future as part of SANIRE’s new vision.

RockBowl is a quiz show whereby different teams compete against each other in a qualifying round. The questions are a multiple choice format and are presented to both teams at the same time on via a protector. The teams then have 30 seconds to answer the question. The question and answers can be discussed amongst the team players, however they cannot accept any assistance from any external parties. This round then ranks the teams according to the number of correct answers which they have and allows the judges to then match the teams in a highest versus lowest ranking structure. The second game is played in a knock – out format with the winners progressing to the final.
The winners of the final will be crowned the AfriRock 2017 Champions and the Champions of Africa.

Download

• RockBowl Invitation 2017 AfriRock 23082017 (PDF, 650MB)
• RockBowl Invitation 2017 AfriRock 23082017 (PPTX, 150MB)

Accompanying Persons Programme

Accompanying Persons Programme

Option 1 – Group Booking

Monday, 2nd Oct 2017

Information Desk at CTIC 13h00 to 18h00

Tuesday, 3rd Oct 2017 - Cape Town City Tour, Mountain and Noon Gun – Morning Half Day

• Departure time: 08h00
• Table Mountain cable car
• Tour Itinerary - Table Mountain (weather permitting), Coastal drive through Camps Bay, Clifton and Sea Point, Drive past Cape Town Stadium and through V & A Waterfront, Green Market Square, Walk through the Company Gardens, Drive past Houses of Parliament, City Hall, the Castle and Slave Lodge, Visit Bo Kaap (Malay Quarter), Ascend Signal Hill and witness the firing of the Noon gun, Join the fascinating Diamond and Tanzanite experience at Jewel Africa. Discover the secrets of Diamonds, Tanzanite and other authentic African Treasures. You will be dazzled by the diamond tour where we learn  about the history of these sparkling gems before returning you back to your Hotel.

Wednesday, 4th Oct 2017 - Cape Point – Full Day

• Departure time: 08H00
• Cape Point Gate / Chapman’s Peak / Penguin colony
• Seal island Cruise, Optional Lunch, Cape point Funicular, Kirstenbosch

Tour Itinerary:

• Drive along the scenic Atlantic seaboard coastal road, pass the pristine beaches of Clifton and Camps Bay
• See the 12 Apostles Peaks, Hout Bay and the Sentinel
• Optional visit Seal Island or shop for souvenirs at the craft market at the harbour 
• Chapman’s Peak
• Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve, home to ‘fynbos’, wild animals and birds 
• Option of enjoying lunch at the restaurant with views of False Bay - excluded 
• Optional funicular to the lighthouse
• Visit Boulders Beach to see the African Penguins
• Drive through Simon's Town
• Return to your hotel/the CTICC

Thursday, 5th Oct 2017 - Winelands Tour – Full Day

• Departure time 08h00
• Included: 3 wine tastings (3rd tasting time permitting) + 1 with cheese and a cellar tour.
• Excluded: lunch at Franschhoek is optional and not included in the price.
• No wine tasting under 18 years.
• Tour Itinerary - We head north to Paarl,  At our first stop we experience a cellar tour followed by a cheese and wine tasting, We continue to Franschhoek with a photo stop at the Groot Drakenstein Prison where Nelson Mandela was released in Feb 1990, A short tour of the little town and a second wine tasting in Franschhoek, Lunch stop (optional – own account), Helshoogte Mountain Pass to Stellenbosch, Time permitting, we will include a third wine tasting before returning to your hotel

Cost per person R3500 (excluding any optional meals)

We will have a travel desk at the Cape Town International Conference Centre (CTICC) from 1pm until 6pm on 02 October.

Please take note that this price is based on a minimum of 12 people traveling and may increase if the numbers decrease.

Please make your bookings as follows
Registration contact:
Name:                                 Nicole Moreira
Email:                                
Tel:                                    +27 11 622 3840

Option 2 – Individual Booking

Monday, 2nd Oct 2017 - Info Desk at CTIC 13h00 to 18h00

Tuesday, 3rd Oct 2017 - Cape Town City Tour, Mountain and Noon Gun – Morning Half Day

• Departure time: 08h00
• Excluded Table Mountain cable car +/- R255 per person return
• Tour Itinerary - Table Mountain (weather permitting and cable car for own account +/- R255 per person return), Coastal drive through Camps Bay, Clifton and Sea Point, Drive past Cape Town Stadium and through V & A Waterfront, Green Market Square, Walk through the Company Gardens, Drive past Houses of Parliament, City Hall, the Castle and Slave Lodge, Visit Bo Kaap (Malay Quarter), Ascend Signal Hill and witness the firing of the Noon gun, Join the fascinating Diamond and Tanzanite experience at Jewel Africa. Discover the secrets of Diamonds, Tanzanite and other authentic African Treasures. You will be dazzled by the diamond tour where we learn about the history of these sparkling gems before returning you back to your Hotel.

Cost - R600 per person

Wednesday, 4th Oct 2017 - Cape Point – Full Day

• Departure time: 08H00
• Included: Cape Point Gate / Chapman’s Peak / Penguin colony
• Excluded: Seal island Cruise +/- R70, Lunch, Cape point Funicular +/- R80, Kirstenbosch +/- R65

Tour Itinerary:

• Drive along the scenic Atlantic seaboard coastal road, pass the pristine beaches of Clifton and Camps Bay
• See the 12 Apostles Peaks, Hout Bay and the Sentinel
• Optional visit Seal Island (own account +/- R70) or shop for souvenirs at the craft market at the harbour 
• Chapman’s Peak
• Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve, home to ‘fynbos’, wild animals and birds 
• Option of enjoying lunch at the restaurant with views of False Bay - excluded 
• Optional funicular to the lighthouse (own account +/- R80)
• Visit Boulders Beach to see the African Penguins
• Drive through Simon's Town
• Return to your hotel/the CTICC

Cost - R1200 per person

Thursday, 5th Oct 2017 - Winelands Tour – Full Day

• Departure time 08h00
• Included: 3 wine tastings (3rd tasting time permitting) + 1 with cheese and a cellar tour.
• Excluded: lunch at Franschhoek is optional and not included in the price.
• No wine tasting under 18 years.
• Tour Itinerary - We head north to Paarl, At our first stop we experience a cellar tour followed by a cheese and wine tasting, We continue to Franschhoek with a photo stop at the Groot Drakenstein Prison where Nelson Mandela was released in Feb 1990, A short tour of the little town and a second wine tasting in Franschhoek, Lunch stop (optional – own account), Helshoogte Mountain Pass to Stellenbosch, Time permitting, we will include a third wine tasting before returning to your hotel

Cost - R1200 per person

Please make your bookings as follows
Registration contact:
Name:                                 Nicole Moreira
Email:                                 nicole@dynamictravel.co.za
Tel:                                     +27 11 622 3840

Registration Fees

Registration Fees

Please note:
- Non-members are entitled to free membership of the SAIMM, up to 30 June 2018, for attending this event
- Registration fee does not include accommodation
- Prepayment is required for all Registration Fees on or before the date of the event.
- Delegates who have not paid will not be permitted to attend the event

REGISTRATION FEES — All prices are inclusive of VAT

REGISTRATION ONE DAY: R5 999
Delegates may also attend the conference for ONE day only

Conference One Day Only: R5 999

Tuesday 3 Octoberr 2017
Wednesday 4 October 2017
Thursday 5 October 2017

Technical Visits: Friday 6 October 2017

Palabora Mine – R8000.00
Tau Tona Mine – R500.00
Chapman’s Peak – R500.00

Registration fees include: attendance at technical sessions, cocktail parties, all refreshments and lunches, abstract booklet with CD of all papers presented at the conference, and delegate material.

Registration fees exclude: travel, accommodation and conference proceeding book.
Accompanying Person Programme (R3 500)

Delegates will receive an electronic copy of the proceedings

Proceedings Book
Please note: Proceedings books are not printed for delegates at the Conference. Delegates who require proceedings books should notify us not later than 14 August 2017 - there is an additional cost of R1 500.

Cancellation and transfer policy:

Delegates unable to attend the event may send a substitute delegate in their place.
Please send written details of substitution. Written cancellations must be received more than 10 working days prior to the date of the event and will be liable for 50% of the event fee. Failure to cancel, or cancellation received 10 working days or less prior to the event date, will result in liability for the full event fee.

SOCIAL FUNCTIONS

Welcome cocktail party (Monday—2 October 2017)
Dinner (Wednesday 4 October 2017) R600

Payment required for additional dinner guest R600 each

Rock Mechanics in Africa

Rock Mechanics in Africa

Mining has traditionally been a mainstay of African economies, while Oil and Gas industries are rapidly growing throughout Africa. Infrastructure is being developed to support these industries. Rock engineering design is and therefore will continue to be essential for the growth of the continent.

Mining

Africa is richly endowed with mineral reserves and ranks first or second in quantity of world reserves of bauxite, cobalt, industrial diamonds, phosphate and platinum group metals (PGM). The map shows minerals produced in African countries. The mining and quarrying of mineral products represents 20% of Africa’s economic activity.

Africa produced 75% of the global PGM in 2014, with 68% coming from the Bushveld Complex in South Africa and 7% from the Great Dyke in Zimbabwe. Africa produced 54% of the global diamonds by market value in 2013, with Botswana, second only to Russia, producing 22%, Angola producing 10%, South Africa 8.7%, Namibia 8% and the remainder from Zimbabwe and the DRC. Gold is a major export product for many African countries. South Africa and Ghana are ranked 6th (5%) and 10th (3%) in world gold production. Rock mechanics challenges range from large open pit slopes to extremely deep underground mines.

Oil & Gas

Africa accounts for 7.8% of global oil reserves, with 84.5% of the African oil reserves concentrated in the four OPEC countries; Libya, Nigeria, Angola and Algeria. Other countries with notable proven oil resources are Egypt, South Sudan and Gabon. Fifteen countries exported oil totalling 6.55 million bpd in 2012, with Nigeria producing the most (2.5 million bpd), followed by Nigeria, Angola, Algeria, Libya and Egypt. Africa’s share of global natural gas reserves is 7.7%, with Nigeria and Algeria being the top producers.

Five other African countries have proven natural gas reserves in excess of 100 billion m³ and are producing gas; Egypt, Libya, Angola, Cameroon and Mozambique. There are large deposits of shale oil and gas in South Africa and across North Africa, which provide some exciting prospects for Africa. Algeria's shale gas potential is 20 trillion m³, which would rank it third in the world after China and Argentina and slightly ahead of the USA. Other significant potential shale gas resources include; South Africa (10.9 trillion m³, ranked eighth), Libya (3.5 trillion m³) and Egypt (2.8 trillion m³).

Both Algeria and Egypt have notable shale oil resources.

Civil Infrastructure Projects with rock mechanics aspects

There are many African civil infrastructure projects that are in progress or planned. A few of the major projects with rock mechanics interest in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are listed here. The Ingula Pumped Storage scheme is under construction and located in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.

Phase II of the Lesotho Highlands Water project (LHWP) has commenced and includes the construction of the Polihali dam and transfer tunnel and a hydroelectric generation plant. The Kariba Dam, on the Zambezi river, which forms the boundary between Zambia and Zimbabwe is the largest man made reservoir in the world and was constructed in 1960. After providing power to the Southern Africa for more than 50 years (1.8 GW currently), it requires major rehabilitation to ensure its safe operation. The Grand Inga dam project is planned to ultimately generate 39 GW for the African continent at a cost of $80 billion.

This will be significantly larger than Three Georges Dam in China. The planned Batoka Hydrower station at Victoria falls on the Zambezi river will produce 1.6 GW of electricity. The 2nd Overvaal tunnel in Mpumalanga, South Africa is also planned.

South Africa – A Pre & Post Conference Destination

South Africa – A Pre & Post Conference Destination

A holiday in South Africa has the potential to surpass all other holidays you have ever been on. The land is vast, with stunning vistas in every province, each teeming with wild animals, amazing plants, and fascinating locations South Africa is a world in one country and offers the visitor a multitude of destinations. Cape Town, considered as one of the top 10 destination in the world, the Kruger Park, the Garden Route, and the pleasure resort of Sun City are only a few of the sought-after stops on any itinerary.

About South Africa
South Africa is a medium-sized country, with a total land area of 1 219 090 km2, or roughly equivalent in size to Niger, Angola, Mali, or Colombia. It is one- eighth the size of the USA, about a third the size of the European Union, twice the size of France, and over three times the size of Germany. It measures some 1 600 km from north to south, and roughly the same from east to west. A subtropical location, moderated by ocean on three sides of the country and the altitude of the interior plateau, makes South Africa a warm and sunny country.

Suggested activities to partake in while visiting Cape Town
The Castle of Good Hope—the oldest building in South Africa— was once a fort, but today functions as a showcase of the Cape’s early days. Built by Jan van Riebeeck and the Dutch East India Company, the castle, which is an example of a star fort, was completed in 1679. The building’s 18th-century décor has been restored and it now functions as a popular museum.

Table Mountain Cableway—looming large and welcoming you to Cape Town, whether you are arriving by plane, train, boat, or automobile, is the iconic Table Mountain. Looking at it from below is one thing, but it is quite another to be atop the mountain, from where one is afforded such wonderful views of Cape Town, Robben Island, the Peninsula, and beyond.

Robben Island and Museum—Robben Island needs no introduction with regards to the significance of its place in South Africa’s, and indeed the world’s history. As ‘home’ to one of the world’s most famous prisoners, statesmen, and leaders in Nelson Mandela, Robben Island is quite possibly the most well-known island-prison on earth.

Wine Route—less than an hour’s drive from Cape Town’s city centre, the wine routes offer visitors picturesque scenery, friendly hospitality, and excellent wines.

Most estates have daily wine tasting, cellar tours, and sales— some by appointment only—and there are many choices when it comes to wine route tours. And because wine and food belong together, some of the world’s best restaurants can be found in the Cape Winelands

Accommodation

Accommodation

Southern Sun Cullinan - A landmark in the Cape Town CBD, this award-winning hotel is located next to the International Convention Centre and is minutes away from Long Street, the MyCiti Bus Route Street and other attractions. Visit our website here and here.

Southern Sun Waterfront - Just 300 metres from the International Convention centre and within walking distance of the V&A Waterfront, this magnificent, newly-refurbished 537 room hotel is superbly-positioned. Visit our website.

Southern Sun Cape Sun - Standing tall in Cape Town’s CBD and in close proximity to the Parliamentary buildings, Cape Sun has rooms offering postcard-perfect views of either Table Mountain, Robben Island, Table Bay and the Green Point Stadium. Visit our website here and here.

Parking is available at all the properties, tariffs are charged at a per nightly rate. Please inquiry rates at the time of making your booking.

Bookings must be made directly with Tsogo Sun, please complete the booking form provided.
Download the booking form here (PDF, 226KB )

List of recommended accommodation around the CTICC
(Please make your reservations directly with the hotel)

African Pride 15 On Orange Hotel
Protea Hotel Cape Town North Wharf
Protea Hotel Fire & Ice Cape Town
Protea Hotel Cape Town Victoria Junction
Protea Hotel Cape Town Waterfront Breakwater Lodge
VA-Marina-Waterfront-Apartments
Radisson Blu
Totalstay Triangle-luxury-suites
The Westin

Contact

Contact

Camielah Jardine
Head of Conferencing
Tel: (011) 834-1273/7
Fax: (011) 833-8156 or (011) 838-5923
Email: camielah@saimm.co.za