Union warns about mine violence

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) expressed shock on Thursday at increasing violence and intimidation at Impala Platinum and Lonmin mines. The NUM's national executive appealed to both companies and the police to take drastic action against...

Critical Medupi boiler test to begin within two months

The hydrostatic pressure test of the Medupi power station’s Unit 6 boiler pressure parts should begin within the coming two months, Hitachi Power Africa has confirmed. CEO Johannes Musel tells Engineering News Online that the test will signal...

Eskom says credit warning shows cost-reflectivity push still needed

Rating agency Moody’s description of the recent decision to lower Eskom’s 2012/13 tariff increase by 9.9 percentage points, from 25.9% to 16%, as being “credit negative” for the utility reinforced the need for South Africa to continue its...

Moving manganese to Ngqura key to building E Cape into new minerals 'gateway'

South Africa's newest deep-water harbour, Ngqura, was poised to integrate the Eastern Cape into South Africa's key resources sector and thereby incorporate it into the mainstream economy of the country, President Jacob Zuma said on Friday....

Transnet delivers last 98 wagons to Rio’s Mozambique operations

South Africa’s State-owned Transport Rail Engineering (TRE) on Thursday shipped the last 98 of 200 wagons, including spare parts, to diversified mining group Rio Tinto’s Moatize coal operation, in the Tete province of Mozambique. The wagons...

Company Announcement: Transnet Rail Engineering Delivers 98 Wagons To Mozambique

Public Enterprises Minister, Mr Malusi Gigaba, today marked the shipping of the last 98 of the 200 wagons and spare parts designed, engineered and manufactured in Transnet Rail Engineering’s facility in Uitenhage

Business welcomes Zuma’s power price stance, Eskom prepares options

The focus in President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation address on moderating the rate of increase in South Africa’s electricity tariffs has received strong support from business groupings. Zuma said that he had asked Eskom “to seek options...

Resources Watch

This week: Joy Global Africa invests in a new distribution facility. Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba says a power price review is geared towards protecting South Africa from shocks. And, a mining icon is brought to Johannesburg’s inner...

Eskom still pursuing mandatory savings 'safety net'

State-owned power utility Eskom has reiterated its call for South Africans to urgently reduce electricity demand by 10%, or some 3 000 MW, adding that it is continuing to pursue plans to ensure that the energy conservation scheme (ECS) be made...

Gigaba says power price review geared to protecting SA from shocks

South Africa’s electricity pricing policy (EPP) review which has been initiated by the Department of Energy (DoE), will interrogate ways to “protect” the economy from “pricing shocks”, but was unlikely to entail a “complete revision”...

South Africa teams up with Swaziland in bid to relieve coal corridor pressure

From South Africa’s perspective, the plan to move ahead with a R16-billion to R17-billion greenfield railway line between Lothair, in South Africa, and Sidvokodvo, in Swaziland, is primarily an attempt to relieve pressure on the coal corridor to...

South Africa teams up with Swaziland in bid to relieve coal corridor pressure

From South Africa’s perspective, the plan to move ahead with a R16-billion to R17-billion greenfield railway line between Lothair, in South Africa, and Sidvokodvo, in Swaziland is primarily an attempt to relieve pressure on the coal corridor to...