Nobody’s perfect. What quality or ability do you wish you had?

More patience. I don't wait well. Sometimes I take it out on others who don't deserve it and then I have to apologize.

What is the best business book you have ever read, and why?

Stumbling on Happiness, by Daniel Gilbert. The sun can't shine every day. Bad days are occasionally part of the program. Build an infrastructure in your life and in your business to help you through those unavoidable tough days.

Vodafone Group has announced its acquisition of the New Zealand business of Telstra Corporation for £430 million.

The acquisition of TelstraClear was made through Vodafone New Zealand, the country’s largest mobile operator with more than 2.4 million customers. TelstraClear is the second largest fixed operator in New Zealand with a customer base that includes government and large corporations, and small & medium enterprises, as well as consumers. 

As the first public-private partnership on the island, the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital Redevelopment Project has both challenged traditional concepts of how these schemes are undertaken and faced some unique challenges of its own.

Convincing mines to spend more money up-front on the expectation of lower life-of-mine costs is what one South African supplier is working hard to do.

One of Poland’s biggest companies has embarked upon a campaign of global expansion, positioning it among the world’s largest copper and silver producers and paving the way for future growth.

South Africa-based Best Shoes has been focusing its efforts on quality, customer service and strategy in order to continue growing its business.

One South African mining company is producing a refractory material on whose properties the world’s iron and steel producers depend.

In the production of iron and steel, refractory materials fall into the category of consumable commodity—hovering somewhere in the background until all the glamorous hard work has been done and the melted, smelted, refined liquid metal needs moving in a refractory lined vessel from one part of the plant to another.

Kuwait-based Al Fajr Al Jadid specialises in automation and control solutions for industrial applications. Director Ano Nazarian talks about the importance of innovation and keeping abreast of the latest technology.

PetroSA’s Project Ikhwezi initiative has been granted regulatory approval by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa).

The project, which is PetroSA’s flagship initiative to secure additional reserves to sustain its Mossel Bay gas-to-liquids (GTL) refinery, will produce gas feedstock from the offshore F-O development fields.

PetroSA said the approval is a major milestone, allowing the National Oil Company to produce natural gas from the F-O development fields when the project is commissioned.

Pratt & Whitney and IndiGo have signed a definitive agreement for PurePower PW1100G-JM engines for 150 Airbus A320neo family aircraft.

The agreement includes 300 firm PurePower PW1100G-JM engines with additional options and a long-term PureSolution maintenance agreement. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in 2015.