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Klipspruit Coal Mine to be Extended

The joint venture established in 2004 by BHP Billiton and Anglo American to optimise synergies in their coal businesses in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.12.2007

Johannes Spies

Several new nominations have occurred at the Canadian company Eastplats, active in the Bushveld Complex in South Africa. Johannes Spies, [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.12.2007

Lakshmi Mittal Invests in Platinum

Karrick, a company of Lakshmi Mittal’s Mittal Family Trust, has [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.12.2007

Old Enron Hands are Back

Exodus Africa has just acquired a 50% holding in Elitheni Clean Coal Holdings (ECC) from its parent company, Independent Power [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2007

Sasol to Build Power Plant

South Africa’s Sasol group has plans to build a gas-fired [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2007

Advising Zesco

The Zambia Electricity Supply Corp (Zesco) is counting on the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.12.2007

An ANC confidential document

An internal account of the last meeting of the ANC executive in mid-November lists the difficulties the South African governing party is encountering.

Subscribers only Politics 30.11.2007

IFC goes for renewable energy

The subsidiary of the World Bank will participate in the launch of a new fund to invest in renewable energy in Southern Africa.

Subscribers only Business 30.11.2007

Niall Mellon

This young Irish property operator has been the largest private supplier of low-cost housing in South Africa for the last [...]

Subscribers only 30.11.2007

Fikile Mbalula

The General Secretary of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) is a thorn in the side of the ANC [...]

Subscribers only 30.11.2007

Rebirth for ERGO Complex

DRDGold South African Operations, part of DRDGold, has just signed an agreement with Mintails, a subsidiary of the Australian group [...]

Subscribers only Mining 27.11.2007

Cape Town 4-7/06/2008

The Investing in African Mining/Mining Conference -Indaba 2008, the essential meeting place for the African mining sector, will be held [...]

Free access Mining 27.11.2007

Eskom Calls for Bids for Nuclear Programme

The South African electricity company Eskom has put out a [...]

Subscribers only Mining 27.11.2007

Anglo Platinum Cuts Production Target

AngloPlat expects production of 2.45m to 2.5 m oz in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 27.11.2007

Eskom Gives Nod to Alstom and Hitachi

The future cornerstone in South Africa’s bid to boost power [...]

Subscribers only Energy 20.11.2007

Nicky Oppenheimer

De Beers’ legal department will need to deal rapidly with the question of Congo-K, which is a high priority country [...]