My Musings Inspired by Rudyard Kipling A few Sundays ago on a hot summer’s morning, we were sitting in a crowded church in Bryanston when the amazing pastor’s use of my all-time favourite poem, ‘If’, reminded me of the role this lovely poem has played in my life over the years. Of course, my wife […]
An Optimistic View Good evening colleagues, friends, fellow mining industry participants. It is always slightly dangerous to give an ex-mining CEO a microphone during dinner. We are genetically predisposed to three things: long-life assets, longer feasibility studies… and very long speeches. I will try to not disappoint! Let me start with the obvious: if you […]
NERSA (National Energy Regulator of SA) has approved temporary electricity tariff relief for South Africa’s ferrochrome producers, with the stated intention of protecting as many as 24,000 jobs. Do we all agree that this announcement should be applauded by everyone who cares about jobs? Well, no! I am not sure we should. To me, it […]
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