Sorry Sasol; OPEC playing the long game, wants oil price to drop even lower

Most investors miss game changing events because (a) they are too far removed from the detail or (b) they are reluctant to investigate, anyway, as they prefer believing what they’ve spent time analysing. As a result, many money manager have completely missed seismic shifts in the oil supply and demand equation. Best they read the … Read more

Mugabe reshuffles cabinet

President Robert Mugabe began a widely-anticipated reshuffle of his cabinet on Tuesday, sacking a minister and his deputy, state media said

Botswana reliant on S.A’s Eskom as power station fails

Botswana’s only power station has broken down due to boiler leaks and generator failures, leaving the world’s biggest diamond producer entirely dependent on power imports from South Africa’s already strained grid

Russian nuclear contract a false alarm; raises frenzied warning for corruption watch in SA

By Peter Fabricius Media reports this week that South African Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson and Sergey Kirienko, Director-General of Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, had signed a US$50 billion deal for Rosatom to build up to eight nuclear power stations – and a research reactor – in South Africa caused something of a, well, atomic … Read more