Tim Cohen
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MPRD in 2026: A maze of mineral policy - Miningmx (opens the original)
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It is a cliché of effective industrial policy that developing an industry works best if there is “policy certainty”. It is also one of those clichés that becomes a cliché because it is true, and nowhere is it truer than in mining, where investment decisions are made over decades, capital is committed before revenue exists, and the investor’s first question is not whether the geology is attractive, but whether the rules of the game will still resemble themselves by the time the first rock is blas
Transnet is moving but a cash crisis looms - Miningmx (opens the original)
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FOR most of the past decade Transnet has had an obvious problem: it wasn’t moving enough freight. Its latest results show good progress on that front, and suggest that the parastatal’s crisis of operations is gradually being replaced by a crisis of capital. The operational numbers, reported earlier this month by Miningmx, are certainly heading in the right direction. Freight rail volumes reached about 168 million tons in the year to March, up from 160Mt the previous year and 149.5Mt at the low p
Transnet is moving but a cash crisis looms - Miningmx (opens the original)
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FOR most of the past decade Transnet has had an obvious problem: it wasn’t moving enough freight. Its latest results show good progress on that front, and suggest that the parastatal’s crisis of operations is gradually being replaced by a crisis of capital. The operational numbers, reported earlier this month by Miningmx, are certainly heading in the right direction. Freight rail volumes reached about 168 million tons in the year to March, up from 160Mt the previous year and 149.5Mt at the low p
Miners doubt if Transnet's rail reform is bankable - Miningmx (opens the original)
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SOUTH Africa’s freight rail reform has moved past the stage of being dismissed as another policy aspiration without a timetable. The Transnet Rail Infrastructure Manager (TRIM) now exists, with its own CEO, Moshe Motlohi, and full executive team. A Network Statement has been published, access tariffs gazetted, private train operators selected, and access agreements signed. The question now is whether the framework is commercially robust enough to make a slot on Transnet’s network an investable a
Miners doubt if Transnet's rail reform is bankable - Miningmx (opens the original)
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SOUTH Africa’s freight rail reform has moved past the stage of being dismissed as another policy aspiration without a timetable. The Transnet Rail Infrastructure Manager (TRIM) now exists, with its own CEO, Moshe Motlohi, and full executive team. A Network Statement has been published, access tariffs gazetted, private train operators selected, and access agreements signed. The question now is whether the framework is commercially robust enough to make a slot on Transnet’s network an investable a
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