Coal mining company Canyon Coal, a Menar group company, is prepared to offer coal to State-owned electricity utility Eskom at a cheaper price on an open-book basis from two new projects.
It is often said that every difficulty signals an opportunity. The challenges facing South Africa’s coal mining sector are not an exception to the dictum. Three difficulties have the potential to give rise to opportunities in coal mining.
Within a few months President Cyril Ramaphosa has done his best to tackle investor negativity in South Africa. However, creative ways to engage the unemployed must be developed.
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s undertaking in his stimulus package to restore confidence in the mining sector, after former Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane nearly destroyed it, is a welcome development. South Africa’s economic fortunes have always been linked to miningWhenever mining boomed, the rest of the economy was in […]
TWO years ago, just over 1 300 workers in KwaZulu-Natal were about to lose their jobs.The workers who faced this gloomy future were employed by the Zululand Anthracite Colliery and the companies contracted to the mine. Continue reading
You have to be made of stone not to be touched by the piercing questions posed by the “lowly newspaperman” in his piece “We need to stop spitting on our legacy”.
In the late 19th century, when reports emerged of the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand, Paul Kruger, the president of the Transvaal in colonial South Africa, was dismayed.
The ascendency of Emmerson Mnangagwa as the president of Zimbabwe has rekindled hope among the country’s resilient neighbours for a future anchored on human rights, democracy, economic growth and jobs.
STATE capture has hit South Africa like a ferocious hurricane. The storm – I can find no better way to characterise the magnitude – has swept away reputations of big international and local firms as well as some of their managers.
SOWETAN: Innovation helps uplift the poor, ensures real radical economic transformation.
Not the politically controversial version. He is part of the Fourth Industrial Revolution that has the potential to change lifestyles and production methods on a global scale.
Vuslat Bayoglu 
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