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Pollution: Sasol claims that it recognises and understands the environmental footprint associated with its activities and responsibly manages these
in a prudent and lawful way. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Parliament intensifies scrutiny of Sasol

Parliament’s portfolio committee on forestry, fisheries and environment is widening its oversight into Sasol after receiving protected disclosures from environmental…

Ramaphosa raises SA investment target to R3 trillion as Sasol pledges R60bn

Ramaphosa has raised South Africa’s investment target to R3 trillion after nearly R890 billion in pledges at this year’s investment conference, with Sasol’s R60 billion…

‘Not us’: Sasol in Secunda. The company says all its emissions monitoring shows levels well within the limits authorised in its atmospheric emissions licences. Photo: Supplied

Residents mull source of pong

People have been reporting strong sulphur odours causing headaches and eye irritation. The city is monitoring air quality while authorities investigate potential Highveld emissions

Fleetwood Grobler Sasol Group CEO at the company’s annual financial results presentation at the head office in Sandton. (Photo: Freddy Mavunda/Business Day)

Sasol on ‘rollercoaster’ ride to a green future

Fleetwood Grobler, the petrochemical giant’s chief executive, says the company is transitioning from coal to gas and eventually to hydrogen.

In 2024, global coal consumption reached a record high, with commercial banks investing more than $130 billion across Asia, the US and Europe.. (Paul Botes)

Coal industry under increasing pressure to focus on a just transition

As investors ditch fossil fuels, environmental lobby groups are using advocacy and litigation to force SA’s biggest polluters to change their ways

In 2005, Museveni scrapped a two-term presidential limit which has allowed him to keep running for office. (AFP)

Motorists won’t share Sasol’s pain

Solidarity says its go-slow will cost the company millions without jeopardising essential fuel supplies

The union sent a strike notice to the energy and chemical company early last week, but did not at the time say when the strike would start. (Madelene Cronje/M&G)

Solidarity plans for three-week Sasol strike over share scheme

Industrial action will start on Monday, but not all Solidarity members will down tools at the same time

Anton Eberhard

Eskom’s soaring energy costs questioned

South Africa is waiting anxiously to hear what Eskom’s latest round of tariff hikes will be.

Mbeki gets tough in troubled municipality

Municipal councils, ward councillors and committees must work together to ensure that problems experienced by the people of the Gert Sibande district municipality in Mpumalanga…

Vabaza holds on to WBA title

South Africa’s southpaw fighter Gabula Vabaza successfully defended his WBA super-bantam title when he outpointed his Ghanaian challenger Anyetei Laryea during their title…

Three to appear in court over child rapes

Two men and a boy were due to appear in Mpumalanga courts on Monday on charges of raping two girls in separate incidents over the weekend, police said. In the first incident, a…

Another fatal accident at Sasol plant

A man died in an accident in an operation run by a contractor at Sasol’s Secunda plant in Mpumalanga on Tuesday morning. The employee of a company called Fluor was working in the…

‘Severe punishment’ for family killers

The four convicted murderers of the Van der Merwe family, two of whom were also convicted of rape, were sentenced to life imprisonment in the Circuit High Court in Secunda,…

Murder accused claims police brutality

Themba Luke Radebe, one of four men accused of murdering members of two Benoni families in February, on Thursday accused the police of assaulting and torturing him to extract a…

Four men in court for Benoni family murder

The trial of four men arrested at Mzingi near Nelspruit in connection with the murders of a Benoni family in February is expected to start in the Secunda High Court on Monday,…

Six dead, more than 100 injured in Sasol explosion

Nine people were still not accounted for by Wednesday afternoon after a gas explosion that claimed six lives at Sasol’s Secunda plant, police said. A spokesperson for the…

Police fire rubber bullets at pupils in Secunda

Police fired rubber bullets and teargas at a stone-throwing crowd of school children, some as young as 11, near Secunda in Mpumalanga on Tuesday. The pupils of Kusasa Lethu…