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February 28, 2012
Columbus Stainless

Columbus Stainless, based in Mpumalanga, South Africa, is taking a key role in a local logistics initiative designed to boost trade, reduce the cost of doing business in the area and unlock the region’s growth potential.

Columbus Stainless, based in Mpumalanga, South Africa, is taking a key role in a local logistics initiative designed to boost trade, reduce the cost of doing business in the area and unlock the region’s growth potential.

January 31, 2012
Partnership to take on Evander

Pan African Resources and Wits Gold have joined forces to acquire the Evander Gold Mine from Harmony Gold for R1.7 billion.

Pan African Resources and Wits Gold have joined forces to acquire the Evander Gold Mine from Harmony Gold for R1.7 billion.

The Evander operations are located in Mpumalanga, South Africa, and comprise the operating Evander 8 shaft and several significant development projects: Rolspruit, Poplar, Evander South, Libra and the Kinross metallurgical processing plant. Evander 8 currently has an expected life of mine of more than 10 years.

November 30, 2010
ABB wins major Eskom contract

ABB has won an order worth $43 million from South African electric utility Eskom to supply equipment for a new thermal power plant being built in Mpumalanga, South Africa.

ABB has won an order worth $43 million from South African electric utility Eskom to supply equipment for a new thermal power plant being built in Mpumalanga, South Africa.

The new Kusile coal-fired plant comprises six supercritical combustion units with a total generating capacity of 4,800 MW.

June 25, 2010
Eskom: Medupi

The world’s largest dry-cooled power station—the largest power station in Africa—is under construction near Lephalale in South Africa. It will not only boost power production by 4,800 megawatts but will also play an important role in job creation in the region. Project manager Roman Crookes talks to Gay Sutton about the project

June 25, 2010
Port of Richards Bay

The Port of Richards Bay, in KwaZulu Natal, is South Africa’s largest cargo port and a significant contributor to the country’s economy. Jimmy Hills talks to Gay Sutton about a vision for the port to become a global leader 

The Port of Richards Bay is run by Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA), part of the state-owned transportation authority Transnet, and was opened in April 1976 to handle the export of coal from Mpumalanga Province. Beginning with a modest two berths to handle coal, it has diversified and grown at an average rate of one additional berth every two years. Today it is South Africa’s largest cargo handling port, handling around 55 per cent of the country’s seaborne cargo.

April 30, 2010
Port of Richards Bay

The Port of Richards Bay, in KwaZulu Natal, is South Africa’s largest cargo port and a significant contributor to the country’s economy. Jimmy Hills talks to Gay Sutton about a vision for the port to become a global leader.  

The Port of Richards Bay, in KwaZulu Natal, is South Africa’s largest cargo port and a significant contributor to the country’s economy. Jimmy Hills talks to Gay Sutton about a vision for the port to become a global leader.   

 

 

 

 

 

March 1, 2010
Eskom: Medupi

The next generation
The world’s largest dry-cooled power station—the largest power station in Africa—is under construction near Lephalale in South Africa. It will not only boost power production by 4,800 megawatts but will also play an important role in job creation in the region. Project manager Roman Crookes talks to Gay Sutton about the project.
Three years ago, construction commenced on a new coal-fired power station in South Africa’s Limpopo Province, near the town of Lephalale, close to the border with Botswana. Named Medupi—which means ‘rain that soaks parched lands, giving economic relief’—the plant will consist of six 800 megawatt units which will come online progressively, with a completion date of 2015. The position of the new plant has been carefully chosen—just a few kilometres from the Exxaro coal mine and close to the Matimba power station, it will be assured of a ready supply of fuel from the extensive but largely unexploited Waterberg coal fields.

June 1, 2009
Cape Fruit Processors

Pulp facts
Cape Fruit Processors has had unique success in one of the world’s trickiest markets, proving to John O’Hanlon that it’s no “me too” player in the South African juice and pulp industry.
Four years after qualifying as an accountant, Max Thalwitzer heads Cape Fruit Processors’ principal production unit at Malelane in the Limpopo Valley, near the place where his grandfather, Mannetjie, first started to farm citrus fruit in the 1960s. In 2000 Max’s father Vonnie moved south to start a deciduous fruit business—apples and pears, basically—in the Cape area, with processing facilities at Paarl in the Western Cape and Mpumalanga on the other side of the country, about 30 miles inland from Durban. Mpumalanga was home to Riverside Processors, which in 2000 combined with the other Thalwitzer family group entities and some farming interests belonging to Johann Rupert, the wealthy South African owner of the Swiss-based Richemont Group. The present-day Cape Fruit Processors is divided equally between the Rupert and Thalwitzer families, explains Max.