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            <title>Big and small pictures</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Much has been written in recent weeks about the geopolitical factors now driving the energy transition. Particular attention has been given to how the attack on Iran by the US and Israel, which precipitated yet another energy crisis when the Strait of Hormuz was inevitably choked, is amplifying the benefits of the ongoing shift to renewables-led electrification.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
            <category>REAL ECONOMY: ENERGY TRANSITION</category>
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            <title>Risks to reform</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The economic reform agenda has emerged as the defining feature of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s presidency, especially the reforms under way to open the electricity and freight logistics markets to competition. It has been pursued largely out of necessity, as many of the theoretical risks associated with monopoly structures materialised in the form of devastating loadshedding and crippling price hikes and a threat of a near collapse of the port and rail systems.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
            <category>REAL ECONOMY: ECONOMIC REFORM</category>
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            <title>Don’t waste the crisis</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa is experiencing its third energy crisis of this decade. While electricity loadshedding has been a threat for far longer, the most extreme phase was definitely during 2022 and 2023, when protracted power cuts were a daily, sometimes twice daily, misery. That confidence-sapping period was fully self-inflicted and avoidable, but policy uncertainty, asset mismanagement, project delays and deep-seated corruption combined toxically to leave residents and businesses in the dark and an economy floundering.]]></description>
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            <title>Policy conundrum</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[At the start of South Africa’s democratic era, the availability of cheap coal-fired electricity emerged as the country’s main instrument for attracting investors. It seems almost unbelievable now, but when loadshedding first started, government still viewed the disruption as temporary and continued to market South Africa as an investment destination for electricity guzzling facilities. That mindset eventually made way to reality, and close observers habitually questioned why Eskom did not simply move to cut supply to the smelters; particularly ones with secret deals of questionable commercial value.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
            <category>REAL ECONOMY: ELECTRICITY DEALS</category>
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            <title>Supply lines</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa has not escaped the fuel price shocks associated with disruptions to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz energy corridor and the damage to refinery and other infrastructure in the Gulf. And while it is difficult to fully assess the economic impacts, these are likely to be painful. Already, the International Monetary Fund has downgraded South Africa’s 2026 growth outlook to only 1% from its pre-war projection of 1.4%, and the South African Reserve Bank is definitely scanning the horizon for any rise in inflation expectations. The bank, which is now targeting 3% inflation, with a one percentage point tolerance band on either side, is also unlikely to shy away from hiking interest rates should it believe such threats to be real.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
            <category>REAL ECONOMY: FUEL SUPPLY</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Full disclosure</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Given its recent history, the fact that Eskom is even able to contemplate entering into a 62c/kWh tariff deal with the ferrochrome industry is remarkable. It is a clear indication of how far the utility has come from the dark period of daily (sometimes twice daily) loadshedding, which demoralised the nation and made South Africa a no-go zone for investors. CEO Dan Marokane underlined this point when announcing on April 10 that it had concluded agreements with the Glencore-Merafe Chrome Venture and Samancor Chrome on a five-year tariff dispensation following difficult negotiations on the terms and conditions.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
            <category>REAL ECONOMY: FERROCHROME DEAL</category>
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            <title>Big lingering questions</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[During the most recent energy crisis – triggered by attacks by the US and Israel on Iran that resulted in the near closure of the Strait of Hormuz energy corridor ahead of a tenuous ceasefire – one could argue South Africa took some decisions aimed at containing the threats, and creating space to consider the next steps. Presumably under the direction of the task team created by President Cyril Ramaphosa, government moved to ease the immediate financial pain by cutting fuel levies, in line with the actions of several of its peers.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
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            <title>Power play</title>
            <link>https://www.miningweekly.com/article/power-play-2026-04-10</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A stand-out statement in President Cyril Ramaphosa’s February 12 State of the Nation Address (SoNA) was the following: “We are restructuring Eskom and establishing a fully independent State-owned transmission entity. This entity will have ownership and control of transmission assets and be responsible for operating the electricity market. Given the importance of this restructuring for the broader reform of the electricity sector, I have established a dedicated task team under the National Energy Crisis Committee to address various issues relating to the restructuring process, including clear timeframes for its phased implementation. It will report to me within three months.” The remarks were viewed as particularly significant mainly because they contradicted an unbundling plan announced by Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa only a few weeks earlier and which arose from Eskom’s internal deliberations on the future of its unbundling.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
            <category>REAL ECONOMY: ELECTRICITY</category>
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            <title>Time to get serious</title>
            <link>https://www.miningweekly.com/article/time-to-get-serious-2026-04-03</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The discussion about the future of South Africa's domestic oil refinery fleet is a long and complicated one. It has naturally flared again because of the security of supply concerns associated with recent disruptions to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. This has brought to the fore how little domestic crude refining capacity actually remains in place, with only Natref and the Astron refinery still operational in a fleet that, at one point, had a nameplate of over 700 000 bl/d when the coal- and gas-to-liquids refineries are included.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
            <category>REAL ECONOMY: ENERGY POLICY</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Performance focus</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[That many of South Africa’s 257 municipalities are in crisis is not in question. Also painfully clear is that many metropolitan councils, which oversee the country’s six largest cities of Johannesburg, Cape Town, eThekwini, Tshwane, Ekurhuleni, Nelson Mandela Bay, Buffalo City and Mangaung, are facing governance and delivery problems that were almost unthinkable a few decades ago. The economic and social consequences of this reality are beyond serious.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
            <category>REAL ECONOMY: METRO COUNCILS</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Fundamentally disrupted</title>
            <link>https://www.miningweekly.com/article/fundamentally-disrupted-2026-03-20</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Peace is not merely the absence of war. Yet when conflicts rage, the foremost priority is always to find ways to stop the killing and the destruction of infrastructure. Only then is there any prospect of finding a pathway to a just peace. In a context where multilateral off-ramps for ending conflicts are blocked, or are simply ignored, it is difficult for non-belligerents to have any influence, however.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
            <category>REAL ECONOMY: FOREIGN POLICY</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Lucky for some</title>
            <link>https://www.miningweekly.com/article/lucky-for-some-2026-03-13</link>
            <description><![CDATA[On Friday March 13, 1981, the first edition of Engineering News, then a fortnightly tabloid newspaper, officially made its debut as a specialist business-to-business publication. The date itself may have alarmed the more superstitious among us, but the political-economy into which the venture was born was arguably even scarier.]]></description>
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            <category>REAL ECONOMY: OUR ANNIVERSARY</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Important shifts</title>
            <link>https://www.miningweekly.com/article/important-shifts-2026-03-06</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The overarching theme of last week’s Budget was definitely the fiscal turning point that has now finally been reached. Debt is being stabilised and the trajectory of the deficit is narrowing, allowing the National Treasury to avert new taxes and revert to providing inflationary relief  to taxpayers. The two main underlying stories of the Budget, however, are moves to shift the composition of spending and to begin introducing structures that could start improving the quality of spending.]]></description>
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            <category>REAL ECONOMY: BUDGET 2026</category>
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            <title>Trading spaces</title>
            <link>https://www.miningweekly.com/article/trading-spaces-2026-02-27</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Electricity trading in South Africa, as Etana Energy CEO Evan Rice explained recently, is at once active and in transition. Just how active, is reflected in a report commissioned by the South African Energy Traders Association and compiled by research firm Krutham. The report includes results from a survey conducted in February, showing that of the 4.7 GW of private-contracted power projects to have reached financial close in the period from 2023 to end-2025, projects with a combined nameplate of 2.6 GW, representing 56% of this category of projects, were underpinned by contracts with eight traders.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
            <category>REAL ECONOMY: ELECTRICITY</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>Moral hazard</title>
            <link>https://www.miningweekly.com/article/moral-hazard-2026-02-20</link>
            <description><![CDATA[There is currently a marked difference between how Eskom and Transnet are being assessed against their respective reform milestones. While the State electricity producer is being adjudged, correctly, as backsliding, its freight logistics counterpart is mostly being praised for the progress it is making in opening the port and rail networks to private participants. For instance, the latest Operation Vulindlela quarterly report assigns a green colour-code representing progress for all the reform components it is monitoring in the area of logistics, albeit with some delays. By contrast, two of the five electricity reforms being monitored – completing the restructuring of Eskom, and reforming the electricity distribution industry – are colour-coded orange, indicating that the reforms are facing significant challenges.]]></description>
            <author>Terence Creamer</author>
            <category>REAL ECONOMY: ECONOMIC REFORM</category>
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            <title>Big decisions loom</title>
            <link>https://www.miningweekly.com/article/big-decisions-loom-2026-02-13</link>
            <description><![CDATA[South Africa is weighing a range of policy measures as various manufacturing sectors – from ferroalloys and steel, to automotives – face existential threats. The causes of their eroded competitiveness are familiar to all South Africans: soaring electricity prices, surging imports, logistics bottlenecks and, more recently, a strengthening rand.]]></description>
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            <category>REAL ECONOMY: INDUSTRIAL POLICY</category>
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            <title>Welcome visibility</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A new data portal made publicly available recently by the National Transmission Company South Africa (NTCSA) provides some encouraging insight into the country’s power generation project pipeline. The prosaically titled ‘Generation Customer Connection Data Dashboard’ confines its attention to projects that have either received a grid connection budget quote, or BQ, or have applied for a BQ.]]></description>
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            <category>REAL ECONOMY: ELECTRICITY</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[In his prime, it was typical for fans of those teams in which French international footballer N'Golo Kanté played, including Chelsea, to quip that “70% of the Earth is covered by water, the rest by N'Golo Kanté”. Many opposing fans were often forced to agree grudgingly. Kanté epitomised the type of footballer who could sniff out danger and react pre-emptively to make crucial interceptions or close spaces that could otherwise become pockets of threat.]]></description>
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            <category>REAL ECONOMY: BANK INDEPENDENCE</category>
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            <title>Stability versus resilience</title>
            <link>https://www.miningweekly.com/article/stability-versus-resilience-2026-01-23</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The revised Eskom unbundling strategy announced is emerging as something of a touchstone for government’s commitment – or otherwise – to reforming the structure of an electricity industry that has held back growth and weighed on investor confidence for nearly 20 years. When the unbundling strategy was confirmed in the 2019 ‘Roadmap for Eskom in a Reformed Electricity Supply Industry’, the utility was facing deep financial, operational and governance crises. It had become clear that a new market design and set of institutional arrangements were required to reduce the risk that Eskom’s vertically integrated structure was not only posing theoretically, but was imposing in reality.]]></description>
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            <category>REAL ECONOMY: ELECTRICITY</category>
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            <description><![CDATA[The complex and multidimensional nature of life in any country means that more than one thing is invariably true at the same time. Moreover, these truths can be highly contradictory, or as Charles Dickens put it far more eloquently at the start of ‘A Tale of Two Cities’: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. In many ways, that line summarises the position in which South Africa has found itself for much of 2025.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[There are signs that the long-promised change to the composition of government spending – from consumption to capital investment – is at last taking shape. In his Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) address, Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana announced that capital payments will be the fastest growing expenditure item over the coming three years, at 7.5%. This is significant, as gross fixed-capital formation has been in decline as a share of GDP since the 2008 global financial crisis, and currently stands at about 14%; below pre-Covid levels and less than half of the 30% targeted by the National Development Plan.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[When ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) initially announced in January that it would be closing the Newcastle mill and winding down its long-steel businesses in KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng and Mpumalanga, much attention was suddenly given to the price preference system (PPS) for scrap metal. The PPS has been in place since 2013, and was always known to be unpopular among metal recyclers. However, it did not gain much public attention until AMSA’s announcement, owing to its dire implications for 3 500 workers, downstream consumers, as well as the town of Newcastle.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Given the many moving parts in play currently within the electricity industry, there is a real risk of becoming distracted from what is truly important. Developments over the past few months alone have been enough to leave one’s head spinning.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The latest edition of the Integrated Resource Plan for electricity, dubbed IRP 2025, has been Gazetted and its contents have not really come as any surprise. But that does not suggest it does not contain shocks. This lack of surprise arises from the fact that, from the very start, the two Minister’s responsible for the updating (which incidentally is meant to happen yearly, but always gets bogged down in years of political horse-trading that tends to crowd out the technoeconomic analysis) continuously signalled that they were in favour of placating various interests under the ‘energy mix’ banner.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[It is now widely accepted that we live in a misinformation era – one where it has become acceptable, even fashionable, to be anti-science. Scientific consensus is making way for conspiracy theories, and scientists are often treated with far greater scepticism than social media influencers. To be sure, rejecting science is nothing new, with numerous historical examples. Everything from the church’s persecution of Galileo Galilei for his support for the idea that the Earth orbits the Sun, to opposition to the smallpox vaccine in the late eighteenth century (a trend that has contemporary echoes), to the fringe belief, made popular by a former South African president, that HIV did not cause AIDS.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africans are naturally strongly opposed to any more hefty electricity hikes, having borne above-inflation increases for years while power disruptions intensified and Eskom’s finances deteriorated to the point where taxpayers were also leaned on heavily to keep the entity afloat. Recent public commitments by Electricity and Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, Eskom chairperson Mteto Nyati, and CEO Dan Marokane to keeping future increases at single-digit levels will, thus, be welcomed.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The twin crises of surging municipal arrear debt owing to Eskom and rising electricity theft have been lurking for years, and with all efforts to combat the problems having failed. In fact Eskom’s outgoing CFO Calib Cassim warned last week that municipal debt owing to Eskom could reach an eye-watering R300-billion by 2030.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[When should a Minister intervene at a State-owned company or independent regulator? It’s a difficult question to answer, and will remain so for as long as Ministers have shareholder responsibilities at companies, or line authority over regulators. South Africa’s recent past is littered with examples of Ministers getting it spectacularly wrong. Often because they intervened, or failed to do so, without regard to legality or governance principles, and were motivated instead by political expediency or worse.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa is thankfully surfacing from a of period of prolonged electricity disruption that all but stripped the country of its ability to grow and create jobs for more than a decade. But this prevailing supply stability should not be taken to mean the risks have disappeared. There is a serious investment backlog across the value chain that is being masked by falling demand. In addition, supply stability is not fully concealing the sustainability pressures. On the demand side, these stresses ...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[It is understandable that few are fully aware of the South African Wholesale Electricity Market (SAWEM) and the likely significance of this complex reform, which represents an important evolutionary step in creating a competitive industry. The launch is tentatively set for April next year, but is likely to be delayed given the number of regulatory approvals still required.]]></description>
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