Two of South Africa's largest coal mining companies are showing impressive far-sightedness by taking steps to use renewable sun and wind energy at their coal-mining operations. Major local coal... 

In general, Africa has not taken advantage of its abundance of raw materials. When calculations were done in the past, it was often concluded that adding value locally to locally mined minerals was... 

People were allowed to smoke freely until smoking in public places was restricted on health grounds. This was done because inhaling of smoke was declared a human health risk. The risk created by... 

We South Africans can do nothing about our past but we can do something about our future and among the key needs is for us is to have a sense of common purpose around the rebuilding of this... 

South Africa shows some good signs in wanting to fight climate change. Some government departments take achieving carbon neutrality as seriously as it should be taken. But overall, it is the... 

South Africa’s private sector is showing great willingness to help to revive the South African economy and it is noteworthy that in many areas the public sector is working alongside business and... 

One day journalists asked the head of a big mining group why he was no longer investing in South Africa but investing very heavily in South America. His reply was: “When I go to South America to... 

There is no doubt that mining, with its multiplicity of forward, backward and lateral linkages, is a poverty buster in waiting. Shadow Mineral Resources Minister James Lorimer MP was spot on when... 

In the past, the private sector owned and controlled South Africa’s mineral endowment and the public sector of the day looked on and collected the taxes. But from 1994, the public sector took over... 

When it comes to green energy technology advances, South Africa is showing creditable wisdom. The partnership of our Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) with Johannesburg Stock... 

The bulk of South Africa’s long-term savings assets, something like 90%, are managed by less than a dozen institutions, which are obliged by the Association for Savings and Investment South Africa... 

The national electricity transmission grid that has served us well down the years now needs very special attention. Upping our electricity generation game is one thing but failure to match that... 

A country can never have too much electricity. Available energy allows business to expand without fear of being without it. The way ahead for South Africa is to go full tilt into solar and wind... 

One cadastre mistake resulted in South Africa failing to benefit from two up cycles in mining. A second mistake could be even worse. To avoid a repeat of what happened last time around, full... 

Worsening logistics constraints and rising electricity supply shortages have made South Africa a very difficult place in which to do business. While electricity supply gets the big headlines, the... 

The world over, countries are declaring and finding critical minerals needed to transition to green energy. Raw materials used in wind turbines, solar power plants and batteries are being... 

Turning energy and logistics threats into opportunities is a must for all South Africans during this tough time in the country's history. South Africans must show unyielding determination the... 

The mining industry in particular has been drawing attention to the shortage of skills and the critical need to close the skills gap, which has been exacerbated by yet another emigration wave that... 

The time has come for influential South Africans to collaborate more intensively than ever to put this country back on to a decent path. Greylisting, talk of people we pay sabotaging us, energy... 

Virtually every listed company that reports these days is taking meaningful steps to decarbonise, which is essential. Exports with no carbon emission reduction are going to penalised financially,... 

There was a time when South Africa had so much cheap electricity it didn’t know what to do with it. Currently, there is nothing stopping us from returning that situation except ourselves. As things... 

President Cyril Ramaphosa is to be applauded for expressing determination to remove all impediments in the way of the sustained growth of the South African mining industry. For South Africa, mining... 

South Africans must reactivate our built and paid-for but dormant open cycle gas turbine plants, which can be brought into service immediately and removed as quickly. At the same time, every bit of... 

South Africans need to put aside their electricity differences and work together to solve the electricity crisis. None of us can function without electricity and wasting time denouncing Eskom does... 

South Africa’s private sector has a total pipeline of 9 GW of energy projects in solar, wind, gas and battery storage on offer, Minerals Council South Africa has assured. By expediting those... 

With critical minerals essential for the success of global plans to green the planet, South Africa must help itself and the rest of the world by fast-tracking the search for these minerals. Far too... 

South Africa’s public sector and private sector are united in highlighting the industrial growth that mitigating climate change brings with it. The green hydrogen summit not only had South Africa’s... 

Only the tiniest fraction of South African real estate is carbon neutral. On the current trajectory, it will take century or more to decarbonise them. It is estimated that 80% of buildings that... 

Economic growth and crime are mutually exclusive and cannot coexist, which is why South Africa Inc must collaboratively and collectively smash crime to smithereens. The exploding rates of murder,... 

There is nothing more suited to our well-endowed African continent than energy that is green and clean. We have superior sun, prime wind and in many places strongly flowing water. Those are the... 

Specification is now in place for the responsible retirement of stranded high-carbon assets and the winding down of those that will not live out their entire geological life. Available for this... 

More and more people the world over are declaring unequivocally that climate change is undeniably the defining challenge of our time. What’s more, many companies have made praiseworthy strides... 

South Africa is tailor made for the generation of electrons from renewable sun and wind endowments and the linked production of green molecules using renewable solar and wind power. Available to... 

Saddling the African continent with old fashioned energy is lunacy. Those in Africa wanting to hold on to fossil fuels should not expect the planet-saving world to make exceptions of a continent...