We do have the policies, reports Kevin Davie, but there doesn’t seem to be an implementation plan.
The US election is just a few months off, but SA’s, in April, is also just around the corner.The difference, though, couldn’t be more glaring.
With the Tour de France again rocked by doping scandals, two M&G journalists offer differing viewpoints as to the Tour’s continuing value.
As a pilot, Tim James is used to doing the distance between Durban and Cape Town in two hours. He has just done it in 14 days, 12 hours — by bike.
Nuclear will continue to have its detractors around issues of safety, security and waste disposal, despite industry trends to recycle used fuel.
The prediction market is said to be more accurate than opinion polls. Kevin Davie investigates.
If you’re planning to raise a second bond to buy your next tank of fuel, you will not be overjoyed to know that coal-to-liquid giant Sasol is making over R100-million a day in profit. An industry analyst familiar with Sasol’s cost structure says that the company, because its assets are largely depreciated, has low running costs. He calculates these, including the cost of coal, at $35 a barrel.
Kevin Davie recalls the warm hospitality of the people of Lesotho and the variable weather conditions in which they live. The village of Ha Sepechela is pretty remote, comprising about 30 chimneyless huts. Here residents leave the top half of their stable-type doors open to allow smoke to escape.
If all the oil the world ever had could be shown on a dashboard fuel gauge, where would the needle be pointing now? Peak oil pundits, who have long said that the world will in time run out of oil, would answer "halfway". This school of thought has enjoyed only fringe status until recently, but is now fast moving to the mainstream as crude oil prices continue to break new records.
Benny Mokaba, an executive director at Sasol is, among others things, the company’s Mafutha champion.This is the Sasol 4 project, an 80Â 000 barrel-a-day coal-to-liquid (CTL) plant to be built either in Limpopo or the Free State. Mokaba is the kind of guy any shareholder would want to have championing his or her company.