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10 February 2012
                       
 
 
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10 Jan 2012
 
 
Energy intensive users prepared to reduce demand
ELECTRICITY
Power utility Eskom’s biggest industrial customers, mainly mining and manufacturing companies, on Tuesday indicated that they would scale down demand to prevent rolling blackouts if the...
 
 
09 Sep 2011
 
Positive departure
REAL ECONOMY: BUSINESS LOBBYING
The fact that the Energy Intensive User Group (EIUG) has decided to lay down a marker on future power prices well ahead of the next round of tariff deliberations is a positive departure from...
 
 
02 Sep 2011
 
News this week
UPDATE
South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) denys a bid by its Youth League leader Julius Malema to have disciplinary charges against him dropped, allowing a hearing to proceed that could...
 
 
30 Aug 2011
 
Nov deadline set for S Africa's minerals beneficiation framework
BENEFICIATION
South Africa would finalise its consultations with stakeholders on a new minerals beneficiation framework, which was recently approved by Cabinet, by November, Advocate Sandile Nogxina, currently a...
 
 
 
 
Daily podcast – August 30, 2011
PODCAST
Firebrand ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema, facing suspension from South Africa's ruling party, said he is ready to step down if it will bring unity to a political group increasingly divided...
 
 
29 Aug 2011
 
SA’s power prices approaching affordability ‘tipping point’
ELECTRICITY PRICES
South Africa’s electricity prices, which have more or less doubled from an average real level of 25c/kWh in 2008 to the current level of 50 c/kWh, were approaching an affordability “tipping...
 
 
26 Aug 2011
 
SA’s power intensive firms call for price-path moderation
ELECTRICITY
South Africa’s Energy Intensive User Group (EIUG) reported on Friday that it had initiated an industry-wide impact assessment of the country’s fast-rising electricity price path, which it said...
 
 
28 Jul 2011
 
Price path warnings as SA loses cheapest power spot to Canada
ELECTRICITY PRICES
Canada has surpassed South Africa as the cheapest global provider of electricity, a new survey by energy cost management consultancy NUS Consulting shows. The ‘2011 International Electricity...
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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