Tag: Extractive industries
Zimbabwe’s Lithium Export Beneficiation Gamble – Some Thoughts
29 Jun 23 PublicationsThis trade brief attempts to evaluate the potential of Zimbabwe’s recently announced export ban on lithium ore to succeed. In this case, ‘success’ is defined as the developme...
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28 Jun 23 NewsSouth African citrus growers say EU pest rules putting squeeze on exports (Reuters)
New European Union pest control rules will cut South Africa’s orange exports to Europe by 20%...
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21 Jun 23 NewsR4.5 Billion Investment Represents a Change in Minerals Beneficiation (Department of Trade, Industry and Competition)
The Deputy Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, ...
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15 Jun 23 NewsNigeria Finance Act 2023: Increased taxes and import levy aim to boost revenue (Nairametrics)
The Finance Bill 2023 which was signed into law on 28 May 2023 by former President, M...
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13 Jun 23 NewsNamibia takes control of its resources as it bans the export of unprocessed vital mineral (Business Insider Africa)
The country’s Ministry of Information also disclosed that onl...
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07 Feb 23 NewsAgri SA reiterates warning of food shortages, price spikes as loadshedding continues (Engineering News)
Industry body Agri SA has implored President Cyril Ramaphosa to addres...
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06 Feb 23 NewsTop African Coal Port’s Snags Are No Match for European Demand (Bloomberg)
South Africa’s state-owned rail company Transnet last year delivered the smallest amount o...
Transnet’s failure is Luderitz Bay’s opportunity – creating a new cross-border value chain
13 Dec 22 BlogTransnet’s rail and harbour capacity has been entirely overwhelmed by South Africa’s surging manganese production over the past decade. In 2011, South Africa exported less than...
Floating LNG vessels in Africa: Africa’s gas future is floating offshore
20 Nov 22 BlogThere is a growing trend in sub-Saharan Africa to deploy Floating Liquified Natural Gas (FLNG) technology to develop gas resources. Although generally much smaller (in terms of out...
Why South Africa won’t hit the gas
05 Sep 22 BlogThe widely expected development of a South African gas economy, especially after the discovery of massive reserves in neighbouring Mozambique in February 2010, has failed to take o...
South Africa’s Intractable Illegal Gold Mining Problem
25 Aug 22 BlogEarlier this year, the London Bullion Market Association estimated that there are 15 million artisanal and small-scale gold miners in the world, responsible for 15-20 percent of gl...
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Metals, engineering sector bearing the brunt of various economic events (Engineering News)
After starting the year off strong, the outlook for the metals and engineeri...
Tanzania’s LNG ambitions back on track
19 Jul 22 BlogThe signing, in June, of a framework agreement between the Government of Tanzania and two oil and gas majors, Shell and Equinor (previously Statoil), is an important milestone in g...
South African mining’s big prospecting problem
05 Jun 22 BlogSouth African mining enjoyed a magnificent 2021. Driven by soaring international commodity prices, the value of minerals production exceeded ZAR1 trillion, that year, the highest v...
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19 May 22 NewsLocal news
SA Cangegrowers calls on government to honour Sugar Masterplan commitments (Engineering News)
When Minister Ebrahim Patel delivers the budget for the Department of Tra...
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11 May 22 NewsLocal news
Covid-19 sets SA auto industry back three years in achieving masterplan targets (Moneyweb)
The Covid-19 pandemic has put South Africa’s automotive industry back by a...
Africa’s Gold Rush shifts West
30 Mar 22 BlogIt is widely known that South Africa’s gold mining industry has been in decline for many years. But what may be less well-known outside specialist circles is the extent to which ...
Net zero is a problem for African development
28 Mar 22 BlogThe possibility of a global ban on fossil fuels has ominous developmental implications for much of Africa. Nearly 50 percent of the continent’s exports are made up of hydrocarbon...
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South Africa takes massive digital leap forward, says Ramaphosa (Engineering News)
Last week, government concluded the auction of high-demand spectrum for mobile telec...
Mozambique gas bounces back
28 Feb 22 BlogWhen TotalEnergies declared force majeure on its Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) project in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province in April last year, in the face of a violent...