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“The board has been given a fresh mandate that they need to move with speed on the issues that Eskom is facing.”
Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson and Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown have done little to pull Eskom into line.
The Chamber of Mines says proposed taxes on company revenue to fund the Mining Transformation and Development Agency will place burdens on producers.
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The department says any legitimate business should have no issues with transparency.
Enel Green Power is rolling out a version of Tesla Motors’s home-power kit which has the potential to provide self-generated renewable energy.
Renewable energy is gaining fast in South Africa and may still be the most financially viable way to avoid load-shedding and blackouts.
The energy regulator has rejected Eskom’s application to raise its electricity prices further this year.
Eskom has asked at public hearings that it be allowed to raise prices to, in part, fuel gas turbines.
Christo Wiese is just one of a number of potential buyers who’ve been refunded their deposits to buy rhino from SANParks.
Treasury will consider partnerships with the private sector to extend some of SA’s infrastructure build despite it being politically impossible.
Moody’s rating agency has warned that the country’s credit rating is at risk as the 220 000-strong Numsa strike enters its fifth day.
The Labour Court has handed down a final order preventing Amcu, a minority union on the gold mines, from embarking on a strike.
The chemicals giant expects synfuel production for the year to fall in the upper end of the target range as it progresses a number of investments.
The mineral resources minister says parties are close to finding a solution to the platinum mining strike, although critics are skeptical of this.
Employers on the platinum belt are committed to meeting again with a labour court judge in a bid to end the protracted wage strike.
The price of maize has slumped in expectation of a bumper crop and the biggest in over three decades.
Meetings have resumed between Amcu and major platinum mines, but analysts are divided about whether an end to the three-month strike is in sight.
Telkom chief executive Sipho Maseko has been ordered to attend a corporate governance course or face a R1-million fine or criminal prosecution.
Businesses in the platinum belt are floundering as the mass Amcu strike enters its tenth week.
