Wits University has received a cash injection that it says will help tackle the significant skills shortage in the geophysics and petroleum engineering fields.
Shell SA has invested R5 million over a five-year period to help create a Seismology Reflection Centre at Wits.
Sibanye-Stillwater has donated their 2D/3D reflection seismic data worth R50m to the Wits Seismic Research Centre of the School of Geosciences.
The data will be used by Wits geophysicists and postgraduate students for training and research purposes. The seismic data was acquired between the 1980s and 2000s for gold exploration at their mining operations in the Witwatersrand basin.
Professor Musa Manzi, Director of the Seismic Research Centre, said this donation from Sibanye-Stillwater is extremely important for research and postgraduate student projects.