Questions, fears over Eskom’s 16% increases
Eskom’s proposed 16% power tariff increases will shrink South Africa’s industrial
base and cull jobs, warns the Energy Intensive User Group.
AEMFC readies for second mine as losses mount
South Africa’s state-owned miner, African Exploration Mining and Finance
Corporation, says it has met all its operational targets of 2012.
Eskom itching to start nuclear programme
Eskom has responded to claims that it isn’t doing enough to plan for South Africa’s
nuclear energy requirements, as set down in Government policy.
Project slippage a global phenomena: Accenture
Capital project budget and scheduling slippages are extremely common globally, said
Accenture, adding that South Africa’s Eskom was "not alone' in its implementation
challenges.
Strikes ends at Petmin’s Somkhele mine
Petmin’s Somkhele anthracite mine in KwaZulu-Natal is back in production after the
group’s mining contractor agreed to a restructuring of wage packages.
Can Mpumalanga’s mining and farming co-exist?
Mpumalanga needs both agriculture and mining to realise exponential economic
growth to meet its 2020 job targets, but the two sectors simply cannot co-exist.
Eskom vulnerable as truck driver strike rolls on
Return-to-service power stations owned by Eskom may be vulnerable to coal supply
disruptions on the back of the truck drivers’ strike, now in its second week.
CoAL signs Beijing Haohua in $100m partner deal
Coal of Africa continues major surgery on its balance sheet selling $100m worth of
shares to equity partner, China’s Beijing Haohua.
Sasol eyes coal export market
Sasol’s failure to press ahead with the R60bn Mafutha CTL project last year has given
it food for thought on what to do with the coal resources on which Mafutha was
premised.
“Perfect storm’ afflicts CoAL’s share price
Strike action, depressed thermal coal prices and corporate uncertainty were the
factors creating a perfect storm in Coal of Africa’s share price, an analyst said.