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Minister Anton Bredell, Western Cape Department of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning joined Clarence Ford on air on the second edition provincial Housing Market Studies report. Views and News with Clarence Ford is the mid-morning show on CapeTalk. This 3-hour long programme shares and reflects a broad array of perspectives. It is inspirational, passionate and positive. Host Clarence Ford’s gentle curiosity and dapper demeanour leave listeners feeling motivated and empowered. Known for his love of jazz and golf, Clarrie covers a range of themes including relationships, heritage and philosophy. Popular segments include Barbs’ Wire at 9:30am (Mon-Thurs) and The Naked Scientist at 9:30 on Fridays. Thank you for listening to a podcast from Views & News with Clarence Ford Listen live on Primedia+ weekdays between 09:00 and 12:00 (SA Time) to Views and News with Clarence Ford broadcast on CapeTalk https://buff.ly/NnFM3Nk For more from the show go to https://buff.ly/erjiQj2 or find all the catch-up podcasts here https://buff.ly/BdpaXRn Subscribe to the CapeTalk Daily and Weekly Newsletters https://buff.ly/sbvVZD5 Follow us on social media: CapeTalk on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@capetalk CapeTalk on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ CapeTalk on X: https://x.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CapeTalkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John Maytham speaks to Allan Rhodes, Chief Town and Regional Planner in the Spatial Planning Directorate at the Western Cape’s Department of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning. They discuss Western Cape Housing Market Studies Round II project which aims to provide insights into the formal housing market in select municipal areas and determine if they can implement an Inclusionary Housing Policy. This is crucial as housing becomes unaffordable for many Cape households. Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit is a podcast of the CapeTalk breakfast show. This programme is your authentic Cape Town wake-up call. Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit is informative, enlightening and accessible. The team’s ability to spot & share relevant and unusual stories make the programme inclusive and thought-provoking. Don’t miss the popular World View feature at 7:45am daily. Listen out for #LesterInYourLounge which is an outside broadcast – from the home of a listener in a different part of Cape Town - on the first Wednesday of every month. This show introduces you to interesting Capetonians as well as their favourite communities, habits, local personalities and neighbourhood news. Thank you for listening to a podcast from Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit. Listen live on Primedia+ weekdays between 06:00 and 09:00 (SA Time) to Good Morning CapeTalk with Lester Kiewit broadcast on CapeTalk https://buff.ly/NnFM3Nk For more from the show go to https://buff.ly/xGkqLbT or find all the catch-up podcasts here https://buff.ly/f9Eeb7i Subscribe to the CapeTalk Daily and Weekly Newsletters https://buff.ly/sbvVZD5 Follow us on social media CapeTalk on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@capetalk CapeTalk on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ CapeTalk on X: https://x.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CapeTalk567See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

She was just six years old when she disappeared without a trace from her home in Saldanha Bay, South Africa.What followed? Blood-stained clothes. A mother's shifting story. And a courtroom packed with 30 witnesses.And still… no trace of Joshlin Smith.Today, we're telling you the case of Racquel Kelly Smith—a case that ended in court justice… but no answers about where Joshlin is.**************************************Do you have thoughts about this case, or is there a specific true crime case you'd like to hear about? Let me know with an email or a voice message: https://murderandlove.com/contactFind the sources used in this episode and learn more about how to support Love and Murder: Heartbreak to Homicide and gain access to even more cases, including bonus episodes, ad-free and intro-free cases, case files and more at: https://murderandlove.comMusic:℗ lesfreemusicBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/love-and-murder-heartbreak-to-homicide--4348896/support.

Guest: Caroline Peters of the Callas Foundation Zain Johnson is in conversation with Caroline Peters of the Callas Foundation, following the life sentences handed down in the Joshlin Smith case. With the community of Saldanha Bay and the nation watching closely, we explore the significance of this ruling, the impact on survivors and families, and what justice truly looks like in cases of human trafficking and child exploitation.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Western Cape High Court, sitting in Saldanha Bay, has sentenced all three people convicted in the disappearance of six-year-old Joshlin Smith, to life inprisonment for human trafficking and an additional ten years for kidnapping. The sentences of the girl's mother, Kelly Smith, Jacqueen Appollis and Steveno van Rhyn will run concurrently. Here is what Judge Nathan Erasmus said in handing down the sentences earlier today. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to the mother of Kelly Smith, Amanda Smith

The Western Cape High Court in Saldanha Bay is set to deliver sentencing today in the disappearance of six-year-old Joshlin Smith. In April, Joshlin's mother, Kelly Smith and two co-accused were convicted of kidnapping and human trafficking charges linked to the child's disappearance last year. Despite exhaustive investigations, Joshlin's whereabouts remains unsolved. Elvis Presslin spoke to Heindrich Wyngaard, Executive Chairperson of the Cape Forum, who has criticised the case's handling, pointing to the overlooked role of drug use by the convicted trio as a critical driver of the crime...(Tik)

In this What's Next with Aki Anastasiou interview, Ashley Smith discusses the industry success of Amoeba TSC. Smith is the Chief Operations Officer at Amoeba TSC, where he leads digital transformation initiatives across fibre networks, ISPs, and field operations. With over 30 years of experience in telecommunications and technical leadership, he focuses on driving innovation, automation, and sustainable growth using locally developed, industry-proven technologies. Before joining Amoeba TSC, Ashley served as Group CTO at EDGE Telecoms Holdings, where he launched South Africa's first disaggregated broadband solution. In this What's Next interview, Smith unpacks Amoeba TSC – including what it does and its key areas of expertise. He then unpacks the role Amoeba TSC plays in the telco industry – including the typical type of client it serves. Smith also reveals the key milestones and achievements in Amoeba TSC's journey. He concludes by discussing the Saldanha Bay Smart City project – including why it was created, and what its core objectives are.

The Joshlin Smith kidnapping case has been postponed to the 23rd of this month, when it will be transferred from the Western Cape High Court to Saldanha Bay for mitigation and aggravation of sentence. Sentencing procedures will begin on the 27th of this month. Judge Nathan Erasmus made the announcement this morning in the High Court, where the girl's mother Kelly Smith and co-accused appeared. Last week Smith, Jacquen Appollis and Steveno van Rhyn were found guilty on both charges of kidnapping and human trafficking. The six-year-old girl went missing from her home in Saldanha Bay in February last year. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to SABC News Reporter, Andile Mbanjwa.

The state in the Joshlin Smith kidnapping and human trafficking case, has repeatedly argued that the little girl was sold for the purpose of exploration. This, as closing arguments are underway in the Western Cape High Court sitting in Saldanha, on the West Coast. Jacquen Appollis, Steveno van Rhyn and Kelly Smith are on trial in connection with Joshlin's disappearance from her home in Saldanha Bay in February last year. SABC Reporter, Andile Mbanjwa reports....

The kidnapping and human trafficking trial in the Joshlin Smith case has resumed in the Cape High Court, sitting in Saldanha Bay. A trial-within-a-trial is continuing over the admissibility of confession statements of two of the accused. The pair is claiming that police tortured and coerced them into giving the so-called confessions. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to SABC Reporter, Andile Mbanjwa

Police say complaints of kidnapping and interfering with the course of justice in the Joshlin Smith case against Patriotic Alliance (PA) leader Gayton McKenzie have been fully investigated. McKenzie was actively involved in searching for the then six-year-old girl, who disappeared from her Middelpos home, in Saldanha Bay in February last year. The child’s mother, Kelly Smith, her boyfriend, Jacquen Apollis and his friend, Stevano van Rhyn, are on trial for kidnapping and human trafficking charges. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In today's BizNews Briefing, Alec Hogg dives into the DA addressing the need for a new US ambassador amid simmering GNU friction, Jacob Zuma's MK party delivering a shock defeat to the ANC in a Saldanha Bay by-election, and a devastating air show tragedy. Plus, the latest updates on Elon Musk and Tesla.

CapeTalk’s Sara-Jayne Makwala King is joined by EWN’s Carlo Peterson covering the Joshlin Smith disappearance trial in Saldanha Bay.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Western Cape High Court, sitting in Saldanha Bay, has resumed trial of the accused in the Joshlin Smith the kidnapping and human trafficking case. The state's star witness, Lourentia Lombaard has resumed her testimony after she turned state's witness. In her earlier testomony, Lombaards revealed that the three accused, Kelly Smith, Jacquen "Boeta" Appollis and Steveno van Rhyn, are responsible for the disappearance of the 7-year-old girl. She also told the court that the current media attention on the case is overwhelming her. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to SABC News reporter, Sagree Chetty....

Dan Corder speaks to elections analyst Wayne Sussman to unpack the MK party’s first ever ward councillor in the Western Cape, Saldhana Bay and the recipe to the party’s national success See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former accused-turned state witness Lourentia Lombaard says Joshlin Smith's mother Racquel “Kelly” Smith confessed to her that the person who took the girl wanted her “eyes and skin”. Lombaard was testifying in the Western Cape High Court sitting in Saldanha Bay on Monday. 

Dan Corder speaks with EWN’s Carlo Peterson about the developments in the Joshlin Smith kidnapping/trafficking case, in the Western Cape High Court sitting in Saldanha Bay multi-purpose centre. The case has been postponed until Monday.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A witness has told the Western Cape High Court in Saldanha Bay that she overhead Joshlin Smith's mother, Kelly, telling her boyfriend that someone wanted the 7-year-old. Lorentia Lombard has taken the stand at the Saldanha Bay multi-purpose centre, where she has testified that moments after the conversation between the couple, she saw Smith leaving the house with Joshlin to meet up with a woman in a white car. Lombard was accused number four in the matter but has now turned state witness. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to SABC News reporter, Mlamli Maneli

The high court sitting in Saldanha Bay on Tuesday heard contradictory claims of Racquel “Kelly” Smith's parenting and state of mind after the disappearance of her daughter Joshlin Smith in February 2024.  Two witness testified on Tuesday: Kelly Ziggers, whose mother had employed Smith as a domestic worker and social worker Siliziwe Mbambo.

All three accused in the disappearance of Joslin Smith have pleaded not guilty to all the charges they are facing in connection with child's disappearance. The trial against those alleged to have been involved in the 7-year-old's disappearance is currently underway in Saldanha Bay, on the Cape West Coast. The state alleges that Joslin was kidnapped and trafficked. The accused include Joslin's mother, Kelly Smith her mother's boyfriend, Jacquen Appollis, and Steveno van Rhyn. Joslin went missing from the Middelpos Informal Settlement, in Saldanha on the West Coast, in February last year. Sakina Kamwendo spoke SABC reporter, Mlamli Maneli

Missing six-year-old Joshlin Smith's grandmother said she's in shock after hearing her daughter-in-law, Kelly Smith, showed no emotions when the little girl went missing. Smith and two others are charged with kidnapping and human trafficking related to Joshlin's disappearance from Middelpos in Saldanha Bay in February 2024.Carlo Petersen. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The trial of the three accused in the disappearance case of Joshlin Smith will commence at the Saldanha Bay Multipurpose Centre. Steveno van Ryhn, Jacquen Apollis, and the child’s mother, Kelly Smith, are facing charges of kidnapping and trafficking in persons for exploitation. Lester Kiewit speaks to EWN reporter Carlo Petersen. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's been a year since six-year-old Joshlin Smith vanished from her home in Saldanha Bay, leaving her family and community shattered. Aubrey speaks to EWN Reporter, Carlo Peterson who’s been following the story since the beginning. Carlo discussed the latest developments in this heartbreaking case, including the upcoming pre-trial hearing in the Western Cape High Court.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lester Kiewit speaks to Greg Clifton, the founder of the charity organisation PayItForward. Clifton has been engaging with the community of Saldanha Bay, as well as the suspects accused in the disappearance of Joshlin Smith almost one year ago and has a strong belief that Joshlin is out there somewhere, and alive.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pippa speaks to Carte Blanche presenter Macfarlane Moleli about how residents of Saldanha Bay are being affected by red iron ore dust which covers the area.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The State has withdrawn criminal charges against, Lourentia Lombaard, one of the people accused of involvement in the disappearance of six-year-old, Joslin Smith. The little girl went missing from her home in Saldanha Bay, in the Western Cape over 8 months, with four people arrested in connection with her disappearance. Lombaard made a brief appearance in the Vredenburg Magistrate's court today, where the three other accused in the matter, were remanded in police custody. They face charges of trafficking in persons with the purpose of exploitation and kidnapping. The matter has been transferred to the High Court in Cape Town, where pre-trial proceedings are expected to begin on the 31-st of January 2024.  Sakina Kamwendo spoke to SABC reporter, Mlamli Maneli....

The Vredenburg Magistrate's Court, in the Western Cape, has postponed until 21 October, the case against 4 people accused of involvement in the disappearance of 6-year-old, Joslin Smith. The accused made a brief appearance in court this morning, where new evidence was heard after it came to light, resulting in the state's request for a postponement for further investigations.  It has been nearly 7 months since Joslin went missing from her home in the Middelpos informal settlement, in Saldanha Bay. The four accused, including the little girl's mother, Kelly Smith, and her boyfriend, Jacquen Appollis, face charges of trafficking in persons with the purpose of exploitation and kidnapping. Our reporter Vanessa Poonah caught up with the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesperson, Eric Ntabazalila, 

The Vredenburg Magistrate's Court, in the Western Cape, has postponed to 21 October 2024, the case against 4 people accused of involvement in the disappearance of 6-year-old, Joslin Smith. The accused made a brief appearance in court this morning, where new evidence was heard after it came to light, resulting in the state's request for a postponement for further investigations.  It has been nearly 7 months since Joslin went missing from her home in the Middelpos informal settlement, in Saldanha Bay. The four accused, including the little girl's mother, Kelly Smith, and her boyfriend, Jacquen Appollis, face charges of trafficking in persons with the purpose of exploitation and kidnapping. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to SABC reporter, Corbin August 

This audio is brought to you by Wearcheck, your condition monitoring specialist. Copper production increasing by 11% as Quellaveco achieved its highest plant throughput rate in Peru, while Collahuasi and El Soldado in Chile benefitting from higher copper grades were among the first-quarter performance aspects that pleased diversified mining company Anglo American in the three months ending March 31. "We're driving operational excellence across our assets, focusing on stability and effective cost management as levers to deliver significant value through the cycle," Anglo CE Duncan Wanblad highlighted in a release to Mining Weekly on Tuesday. "We're progressing through our asset review to optimise value by simplifying and improving the overall quality of the portfolio," he added. With copper now representing 30% of total production, the business is being set up to deliver and grow into the major demand themes against the backdrop of several organic medium-term copper growth options. Steelmaking coal production also increased by 7%, owing to the performance at the Aquila longwall and Capcoal opencast operations in Australia, the London- and Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed company stated in the First Quarter Anglo American Production Report. Anglo diamond mining and marketing company De Beers, the report noted, implemented changes to lower its diamond production for the year by about three-million carats. This, combined with 7% lower production of 834 000 oz from Anglo's platinum group metals (PGMs) operations resulted in flat production for the group overall when compared with the first three months of 2023. The lower PGMs production reflected expected lower volumes from the Kroondal PGMs mine, which is reported as third-party purchase of concentrate from November 2023, and lower production at the underground Amandelbult PGMs mine in Limpopo. Iron-ore production was flattened by the planned logistics-linked decrease to 15.1-milion tonnes at South Africa's Kumba Iron Ore offsetting the 4% production rise at Minas-Rio in Brazil. Full-year diamond production guidance has also been lowered to 26-million carats to 29-million carats, with unit costs revised up to $90/carat. Realised prices were all down except for diamonds. The biggest realised price fall was 61% for rhodium. Other big realised price falls were for palladium, which was 38% down, nickel, which was 37% down, Minas-Rio iron-ore, which was 38% down, the PGMs basket price, which was 30% down. PGM METAL IN CONCENTRATE Anglo's own mined production decreased by 14% to 504 300 oz on the disposal of Kroondal. Excluding Kroondal, production decreased by 6% owing to lower production from Amandelbult and Mototolo. Mogalakwena produced 219 500 oz, which was flat year-on-year. Production at Amandelbult decreased by 16% to 127 100 oz on lower recoveries and plant equipment breakdowns. Production at Mototolo fell 10% to 61 900 oz, caused by mining equipment breakdowns and challenging ground conditions as a section of the mine reaches its end of life. The Unki PGMs mine in Zimbabwe produced 62 800 oz, in line with the same period of last year. The purchase of concentrate increased by 5% to 329 800 oz, reflecting the transition of Kroondal to a 100% third-party purchase of concentrate arrangement. Normalising the comparative period to include 100% of Kroondal, results in a 10% decrease reflecting lower third-party receipts. Refined PGM production was flat at 628 000 oz. In the first quarter of every year, refined production is typically at its lowest, due to the annual stock count and planned maintenance at processing assets. KUMBA IRON ORE Kumba's quarterly production declined to 9.3-million tonnes, driven by a 12% decrease at Kolomela to 2.7-million tonnes. The operationally stable Sishen iron-ore mine lifted production by 4% to 6.6-million tonnes. Kumba's iron-ore sales fell 12% to 8.4-million tonnes, primarily as a result of equipment reliability challenges at the Saldanha Bay ...

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Three of the four suspects alleged to be involved in the disappearance of six-year-old Joshlin Smith, have abandoned their bail applications. Additionally, the state withdrew charges against accused number four, Phumza Sigaqa.  The accused, who are charged with kidnapping and human trafficking appeared in the Vredenburg magistrate's court on Wednesday. Joshlin's whereabouts remain unknown. She was reported missing on February 19 in Saldanha Bay. 

Four suspects appeared in the Vredenburg magistrate's court on Thursday in connection with the disappearance of six-year-old Joslin Smith from Saldanha Bay. The suspects, who include her mother face charges of human trafficking and kidnapping. MEC for police oversight & community safety in the Western Cape Reagen Allen said more charges might be added and further arrests made.

Members of the Diazville community in the Western Cape have vowed to intensify their search for missing six-year-old, Joslin Smith from Saldanah Bay. This follows a recent announcement by police that they have taken people in for questioning, adding that the investigation into Joslin disappearance has gained momentum and that arrests are imminent. Joslin went missing over two weeks ago and speculation has been rife on social media platforms with local authorities pleading for calm and for people to stop spreading false news around the incident. SABC News reporters in Saldanha Bay earlier caught up with PR councilor, Vernon Vraagom ahead of a planned search to a nearby beachfront.

A group of concerned community members have begun a splinter search for missing six-year-old, Joslin Smith of Saldanha Bay, in the Western Cape. Joslin went missing over two weeks ago after her mother left her in the care of the mother's boyfriend. Today's search is along Tabak Bay Beach where a shoe was picked up early this week. Four people have been taken in for questioning in relation to her whereabouts. Community member, Vernon Vraagom, is leading the search on the beach, and says the community initiated the search following the alleged discovery of a blue flip-flop. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to SABC reporter in Diazville, in Saldanah Bay, Mlamli Maneli.

Western Cape police have found pieces of blood-stained clothing believed to be that of missing six-year-old Joslin Smith. The items of clothing were found in an open field in Middelpos, Saldanha Bay. Joslin was last seen in the area last month after she was left in the care of her mother's boyfriend at the time of her disappearance. For the latest on the case, Elvis Presslin spoke to Western Cape MEC of Police Oversight and Community Safety, Reagen Allen

This audio is brought to you by Wearcheck, your condition monitoring specialist. The contribution of diversified mining company Anglo American to a cleaner, greener maritime industry is highlighted by this week's delivery of the last of ten emission-cutting ships. The maiden voyage of the Ubuntu Liberty vessel from China to South Africa will mark the successful on-time transfer of all ten ships built over the last three years by Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding, located along the mouth of China's Yangtze river. The final vessel of the Ubuntu fleet is on its way to Saldanha Bay to collect iron-ore from South Africa's high-quality-producing Kumba operations in the Northern Cape, a repeat of what the first Ubuntu Harmony vessel did a year ago. The fleet emits 35% less carbon dioxide into the air than ships fuelled by conventional marine oil fuel. Customers are showing keen interest in accessing Ubuntu freight, which Anglo marketing business CEO Matt Walker says in a Johannesburg Stock Exchange announcement demonstrates growing recognition of the value of sustainable shipping as part of a more sustainable supply chain that end consumers increasingly expect. Shanghai Waigaoqiao has delivered the fleet on time, on budget and with a zero-safety-incident record. The Ubuntu fleet is a key component of Anglo's ambition to achieve carbon-neutrality for its controlled ocean freight by 2040, aligning with Anglo's sustainable mining plan commitment to carbon neutral operations across its mines by the same year. The LNG dual-fuelled vessels offer an estimated 35% reduction in emissions compared to ships fuelled by conventional marine oil fuel and are the most efficient vessels of their type today. Since the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) dual-fuelled new-build ship was loaded, more than 6.4-million tonnes of iron-ore and steelmaking coal across global shipping routes. Additionally, the fleet has conducted 30-plus refuelling stops for LNG in locations such as Singapore and Malaysia, amid the shipping industry being responsible for some 3% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. GREEN HYDROGEN As reported by Mining Weekly last year, Anglo has established a framework of initiatives for the decarbonisation of its maritime activities, including energy-saving devices fitted to existing vessels, the use of voyage optimisation software, and a focus on exploring, trialling and adopting alternative, sustainable fuel options, including sustainable biofuel, green methanol and ammonia, and - further down the line - green hydrogen. The use of LNG is also expected to lead to a reduction of nitrogen oxides and particulate matter from vessel exhausts, while new technology also eliminates the release of unburnt methane. The dual-fuelled Capesize+ fleet is part of an ambition to achieve carbon neutrality for controlled ocean freight by 2040, with an interim target to reduce emissions from these activities by 30% by 2030. This is all part of a wider ambition to halve Scope 3 emissions by 2040.

This audio is brought to you by Endress and Hauser, a leading supplier of products, solutions and services for industrial process measurement and automation. The 128 MW Oya Energy hybrid project, which will combine variable renewables and batteries to produce dispatchable electricity daily between 5:00 and 21:30 for injection into South Africa's loadshedding-prone grid, reached financial close on Tuesday, February 13. The project was named as a preferred bidder for a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) under South Africa's Risk Mitigation Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (RMIPPPP), which was launched as a so-called emergency procurement round in 2020 for some 2 000 MW. The bulk of the allocation was awarded to three powership projects at Coega, Richards Bay and Saldanha Bay, but these ran into immediate legal and environmental problems, which resulted in serious delays to the RMIPPPP as a whole. In December, Eskom announced that the grid connection budget quotes for the three Karpowership projects, along with another hybrid project that included gas and batteries, had officially expired, finally releasing scarce grid capacity that had been reserved for the projects. The expiry meant that only hybrid projects bid under the RMIPPPP - which many described as having been tailored for gas-to-power, given the dispatchable profile stipulated and a rule disallowing the hybrid projects from charging their batteries using the grid - eventually advanced to financial close, with three Scatec solar-battery projects having entered into commercial operation on December 11 last year. The Oya Energy Hybrid Project, which will be developed on a single location on a site that spans the Western and Northern Cape provinces, between the towns of Ceres and Sutherland, combines 155 MW of solar photovoltaic and 86 MW of wind with a 92 MW/242 MWh lithium-ion battery energy storage system to produce the dispatchable electricity required under the PPA. The power station will be jointly owned and operated by ENGIE (35%), G7 Renewable Energies (20%), Meadows Energy (22.5%) and Perpetua Investment Holdings (22.5%), with RMB having acted as the sole mandated lead arranger and bookrunner for the project. ENGIE country manager Mohamed Hoosen described the project as "an innovative first-of-its-kind power solution", while G7 CEO Dr Kilian Hagemann argued that it represented "the blueprint for a carbon neutral, 100% renewable future power grid". The project, the investment value for which has not been disclosed, falls within the Komsberg Renewable Energy Development Zone and will be constructed by a joint venture comprising Power Africa and SinoHydro. It is scheduled to will reach commercial operation in the last quarter of 2025.

This audio is brought to you by Endress and Hauser, a leading supplier of products, solutions and services for industrial process measurement and automation. The 128 MW Oya Energy hybrid project, which will combine variable renewables and batteries to produce dispatchable electricity daily between 5:00 and 21:30 for injection into South Africa's loadshedding-prone grid, reached financial close on Tuesday, February 13. The project was named as a preferred bidder for a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) under South Africa's Risk Mitigation Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (RMIPPPP), which was launched as a so-called emergency procurement round in 2020 for some 2 000 MW. The bulk of the allocation was awarded to three powership projects at Coega, Richards Bay and Saldanha Bay, but these ran into immediate legal and environmental problems, which resulted in serious delays to the RMIPPPP as a whole. In December, Eskom announced that the grid connection budget quotes for the three Karpowership projects, along with another hybrid project that included gas and batteries, had officially expired, finally releasing scarce grid capacity that had been reserved for the projects. The expiry meant that only hybrid projects bid under the RMIPPPP - which many described as having been tailored for gas-to-power, given the dispatchable profile stipulated and a rule disallowing the hybrid projects from charging their batteries using the grid - eventually advanced to financial close, with three Scatec solar-battery projects having entered into commercial operation on December 11 last year. The Oya Energy Hybrid Project, which will be developed on a single location on a site that spans the Western and Northern Cape provinces, between the towns of Ceres and Sutherland, combines 155 MW of solar photovoltaic and 86 MW of wind with a 92 MW/242 MWh lithium-ion battery energy storage system to produce the dispatchable electricity required under the PPA. The power station will be jointly owned and operated by ENGIE (35%), G7 Renewable Energies (20%), Meadows Energy (22.5%) and Perpetua Investment Holdings (22.5%), with RMB having acted as the sole mandated lead arranger and bookrunner for the project. ENGIE country manager Mohamed Hoosen described the project as "an innovative first-of-its-kind power solution", while G7 CEO Dr Kilian Hagemann argued that it represented "the blueprint for a carbon neutral, 100% renewable future power grid". The project, the investment value for which has not been disclosed, falls within the Komsberg Renewable Energy Development Zone and will be constructed by a joint venture comprising Power Africa and SinoHydro. It is scheduled to will reach commercial operation in the last quarter of 2025.

This audio is brought to you by Wearcheck, your condition monitoring specialist. Adelaide Ruiters has been slogging away for ten years to get the world's first woman-owned phosphate mine up and running. Now, 2024 looks like being the year she will likely do it. Ribbon-cutting for Adelaide Ruiters Mining and Exploration (ARME) is now expected around June, July - and being considered, possibly before year-end, is an initial public offering (IPO). (Also watch attached Creamer Media video.) The main activity of ARME for all this time has been phosphate mineral exploration and mine development in Saldanha Bay, with the aim of developing the Zandheuvel project. From a person whose first job was that of a music teacher, Ruiters is now within a hair's breadth of fully funding what could be a game-changing, food-critical business venture for South Africa - with potential linked value-added local phosphoric acid production already being pursued. Ruiters set it all off by going to South Africa's Council for Geoscience, paying next to nothing for data, obtaining a prospecting right, carrying out exploration, securing a mining right, deploying pilot plants and completing the technical aspects of bankable feasibility studies. With all that in the background, the last few regulatory boxes are scheduled to be ticked by the end of March to open the way for site preparation. "Together with our partners, we are creating a new phosphate competency for our country, the Republic of South Africa, and the Southern African Region, to serve the food security and agriculture development needs for the South African people," is how Ruiters spells out ARME's mission on the company's website. In an interview with Mining Weekly, Ruiters outlined the "very good support" she is receiving from South Africa's State-owned Industrial Development Corporation, along with the Anglo American Sefa Mining Fund, as well as her joy at having attracted local minority investors ahead of the anticipated IPO. The plan is to pipe the portion of the product that is earmarked for exportation from Zandheuvel will pipe product it four kilometres to the deep sea port of Saldana, which is about 200 km north of Cape Town. With environmental friendliness being one of Ruiter's personal passions, the use of diesel will be substituted by an organic canola oil derivative in the planned flotation process. Moreover, the operation will make use of treated effluent water provided by the Saldanha Bay municipality rather than potable water. "We have done a market study through a company in Europe. We will export some of the product, but we have got a responsibility to also offer it to our local farmers," said Ruiters. IDC funding is also now being sought for the local production of phosphoric acid, preferably in an industrial development zone, "and, of course, we're looking at a future IPO". Employment is on the cards for 393 people.

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Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has published an expression of interest (EoI) document to determine market appetite for small- to medium-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports through the ports of Durban, Cape Town, East London, Saldanha Bay and Mossel Bay. The EoI seeks to explore areas that include the market size, technologies, and overall operating model for small- to medium-scale LNG. The EoI aims to benefit the gas market, says the ports operator, including potential users that are secluded from current gas infrastructure such as pipelines. "TNPA's LNG programme is meant to support the gas-to-power industry, industrial users and the transportation sector." The EoI market opportunity is supplementary to the earmarked large-scale LNG terminals at the ports of Ngqura, Richards Bay and Saldanha Bay. The existing large-scale LNG terminals focus on large-scale floating storage and regasification units. "The small- to medium-scale LNG importation market has the potential of supporting South Africa's overall energy mix ambitions and positively contributing to lower carbon emissions," notes TNPA. The EoI documents can be accessed from National Treasury's e-tender publication portal.

Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has published an expression of interest (EoI) document to determine market appetite for small- to medium-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports through the ports of Durban, Cape Town, East London, Saldanha Bay and Mossel Bay. The EoI seeks to explore areas that include the market size, technologies, and overall operating model for small- to medium-scale LNG. The EoI aims to benefit the gas market, says the ports operator, including potential users that are secluded from current gas infrastructure such as pipelines. "TNPA's LNG programme is meant to support the gas-to-power industry, industrial users and the transportation sector." The EoI market opportunity is supplementary to the earmarked large-scale LNG terminals at the ports of Ngqura, Richards Bay and Saldanha Bay. The existing large-scale LNG terminals focus on large-scale floating storage and regasification units. "The small- to medium-scale LNG importation market has the potential of supporting South Africa's overall energy mix ambitions and positively contributing to lower carbon emissions," notes TNPA. The EoI documents can be accessed from National Treasury's e-tender publication portal.

The Eastern, Northern and Western Cape provinces have agreed to team up in a bid to position South Africa as a global hub for the production of green hydrogen and derivative products, as well as to produce the components required in the green hydrogen value chain, ahead of the finalisation of the long-awaited Green Hydrogen Commercialisation Strategy. The three coastal provinces are all playing host to potential multi-billion rand green-hydrogen projects and have been working separately on strategies and roadmaps in an effort to capture the jobs, growth and industrialisation opportunities that could flow should the projects materialise. However, the three provincial administrations have also decided that there is greater potential to advance the opportunity through cooperation rather than competition, particularly in the areas of infrastructure, skills development, trade and investment promotion, as well as on the development of supportive policy and regulation. They are also open to extending this cooperation into the region, including to green-hydrogen aspirant Namibia, in an effort to create a Southern African Development Community hydrogen corridor. The areas of collaboration have been formalised into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that will be signed at South Africa's second Green Hydrogen Summit under way in Cape Town. The trilateral MoU follows on from a similar agreement announced in 2022 between the Western Cape and Northern Cape governments, which have both since also advanced with their individual strategies. The Western Cape government is aiming to developed Saldanha Bay, which is an established deep water port and industrial hub, into a production centre for green hydrogen and derivatives such as green direct reduced iron, which could be manufactured at the currently mothballed Saldanha Steel Works, as well as bunkering fuel for the shipping industry. The province also envisages the Atlantis Special Economic Zone becoming a key production centre for components used in the green-hydrogen value chain, including wind, solar and electrolyser components. Green hydrogen is produced by using renewable electricity in an electrolyser to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The clean energy carrier and the derivative products are seen as becoming increasingly important in assisting those sectors that are unable to decarbonise directly using renewable electricity, such as steel, petrochemicals, fertilisers, cement, as well as long-haul land, sea and air transportation. The Northern Cape has also finalised its Green Hydrogen Roadmap, which indicates that between $300- and $500-billion of green hydrogen production and value-chain investment could be directed the way of the province, which has abundant sun, wind and land, by 2050. There are several projects already being progressed in the province, which also views the proposed greenfield port of Boegoebaai, located just south of the Namibian border, as potentially emerging as a flagship future production and export hub. In the Eastern Cape, the strategy will be implemented primarily in the Coega Special Economic Zone, where Hive Hydrogen is considering a 1.07 GW investment to produce green hydrogen and green ammonia for export. The MoU and the provincial strategies are said to be in line with the draft Green Hydrogen Commercialisation Strategy, which has been under development since 2021 but which has not yet been approved by government. Speaking at the launch of the summit, Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa indicated that he did not expect the strategy to meet with any resistance from Cabinet once it was presented for approval, but provided no definitive timeframe for its consideration by the executive. Industrial Development Corporation COO Joanne Bate, who is also leading the panel established by Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Ebrahim Patel to oversee the finalisation of the strategy, indicated that its formulation was well advanced. Bate reporte...

Liz McDaid, strategic lead at the Green Connection on Karpowership.    Syd Vianello, veteran retail analyst on his tribute to SA businessman, Raymond Ackerman.   Warren Ingram, co-founder of Galileo Capital and personal financial advisor on how to protect your money against inflation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The assassinations of two Bulgarians in a quiet suburb in Cape Town in 2018. A cargo ship carrying tonnes of cocaine seized in Saldanha Bay in 2021. And now, four Bulgarians brutally murdered in a leafy lane in Constantia. A startling coincidence or clear signs of a foreign criminal cartel putting down roots in the Western Cape?

Many municipalities in South Africa face substantial financial challenges, rendering them unable to fulfil their obligation of delivering essential services to their communities. A prevailing culture of non-payment further jeopardises the long-term viability of numerous councils. But there are beacons of light and councils that are well run that could serve as examples to the ones that are struggling and are in danger of collapsing. Two councils have been singled out by Ratings Africa as the most financially sustainable municipalities in the country. In its latest Municipal Financial Stability Index Midvaal and Saldanha Bay came out as the two best-run municipalities in South Africa. The DA' Executive Mayor of Saldanha Bay, André Truter told BizNews what his secrets for success were and said he was more than willing to share best practices with ANC-run municipalities. At the core lies zero tolerance of corruption and theft, and the appointment of qualified individuals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sasol energy business VP Priscillah Mabelane reports that the JSE-listed group has identified three priority clusters for the roll-out of its green hydrogen strategy, while also supporting government with plans to develop Boegoebaai, in the Northern Cape, into a green hydrogen and derivatives export hub. Speaking at the South Africa Green Hydrogen Summit in Cape Town, Mabelane said Secunda, the Vaal Triangle and Saldanha Bay had been selected for various initiatives, with specific green-steel-related projects being pursued in partnership with ArcelorMittal South Africa in the Vaal Triangle and Saldanha Bay. Sasol was pursuing an initial sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) opportunity, known as the HyShiFT programme, in Secunda in partnership with Linde, Enertrag and Hydregen, which will bid to secure support under Germany's H2Global platform. Mabelane says the group has a longer-term vision to transform the OR Tambo International Airport into a global sustainable aviation hub. Enertrag new energy solutions head Dr Tobias Bischof-Niemz, who also spoke at the summit, said the installed Fischer Tropsch (FT) capacity at Secunda positioned Sasol with a significant “first-mover advantage”, given that Secunda was the only FT plant globally already producing a certified aviation fuel based on grey hydrogen. The H2Global mechanism was likely to prove crucial in unlocking the advantage, however, given that green hydrogen was a commodity, which meant it faced a “first mover disadvantage”, with later movers benefitting from the technology learnings of early adopters. Should the project receive such support, the HyShiFT programme would seek to displace 1% of the grey hydrogen currently used at Secunda with green hydrogen, which would be produced using a 200 MW electrolyser and 450 MW of renewable electricity to be produced in Mpumalanga. The green hydrogen would be used in Sasol's FT reactors to produce a certified SAF. In the Vaal Triangle cluster, meanwhile, Sasol was partnering with ArcelorMittal South Africa to investigate the production of green hydrogen for use in steelmaking, and the capturing of unavoidable carbon dioxide. Sasol was also assessing the potential to supply other industries in the region, which currently use grey hydrogen in their production processes. The group is also repurposing an existing 60 MW electrolyser in Sasolburg to produce green hydrogen that will be used to pilot other green-mobility projects in partnership with the Industrial Development Corporation, including some Toyota Mirani fuel-cell vehicles and mine haulage trucks. In time, Sasol will also look to transition the 500 000 t ammonia and methanol produced at Sasolburg from grey to green hydrogen. In Saldanha, Sasol was also partnering with ArcelorMittal South Africa on a green steel project using green hydrogen, which could result in the re-opening of parts of the mothballed Saldanha Steel mill Meanwhile, President Cyril Ramaphosa offered an update on the Boegoebaai green hydrogen studies being facilitated by Sasol. The President said significant progress had been made on master plan for a green hydrogen special economic zone (SEZ) at Boegoebaai, with the aspiration to support 40 GW of electrolyser capacity by 2050. Mabelane said Sasol's green hydrogen strategy had two imperatives: “One is to anchor the local demand [and] the second part is to drive the green hydrogen hub facilitation.”

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Out there with the legendary Flying Dutchman is a fleet of 'ghost ships' trafficking cocaine from South America to destinations around the globe. They are invisible to satellites and tracking systems and make lonely voyages undetected, sometimes across rough seas. The Atlantic Warrior is one of them. She belongs to the Bulgarian Mafia and trafficked cocaine from Brazil to Saldanha Bay off the South African West Coast. She is now missing after TimesLIVE Investigations journalist Aron Hyman spoke about her involvement in drug trafficking on Bulgarian national television.  Following the arrests of Asen Ivanov and his Bulgarian associates for possession of a tonne of cocaine on 1 March last year police managed to confiscate three ships belonging to the syndicate. It's believed others are still out in the ocean possibly still trafficking cocaine around the world.  Episode two of Cape of Cocaine reveals how a fleet of ships trafficked drugs between South America to South Africa and eventually off to Australia on an industrial scale.  Sunday Times · TimesLIVE

Out there with the legendary Flying Dutchman is a fleet of 'ghost ships' trafficking cocaine from South America to destinations around the globe. They are invisible to satellites and tracking systems and make lonely voyages undetected, sometimes across rough seas. The Atlantic Warrior is one of them. She belongs to the Bulgarian Mafia and trafficked cocaine from Brazil to Saldanha Bay off the South African West Coast. She is now missing after TimesLIVE Investigations journalist Aron Hyman spoke about her involvement in drug trafficking on Bulgarian national television.  Following the arrests of Asen Ivanov and his Bulgarian associates for possession of a tonne of cocaine on 1 March last year police managed to confiscate three ships belonging to the syndicate. It's believed others are still out in the ocean possibly still trafficking cocaine around the world.  Episode two of Cape of Cocaine reveals how a fleet of ships trafficked drugs between South America to South Africa and eventually off to Australia on an industrial scale. 

On March 1 2021 the Windward, a Bulgarian mafia cocaine ship, was three days behind schedule docking at Saldanha Bay harbour on SA's west coast. Bulgarian cocaine fleet manager Asen Ivanov and his Bulgarian associates were waiting, probably worried their Myanmar crew had become lost in thick fog or rough seas.  Unbeknown to him, he had much bigger problems because watching the mafia's every move was Lt-Col Johan Smit and members of the Western Cape police's narcotics unit. When the drug dealers approached the ship, the moment the police officers had been planning for months arrived. They were on the cusp of one of the biggest drug busts in SA history and inadvertently exposing a large secret crime organisation.

On March 1 2021 the Windward, a Bulgarian mafia cocaine ship, was three days behind schedule docking at Saldanha Bay harbour on SA's west coast. Bulgarian cocaine fleet manager Asen Ivanov and his Bulgarian associates were waiting, probably worried their Myanmar crew had become lost in thick fog or rough seas.  Unbeknown to him, he had much bigger problems because watching the mafia's every move was Lt-Col Johan Smit and members of the Western Cape police's narcotics unit. When the drug dealers approached the ship, the moment the police officers had been planning for months arrived. They were on the cusp of one of the biggest drug busts in SA history and inadvertently exposing a large secret crime organisation. Sunday Times · TimesLIVE

One of the biggest cocaine busts in South Africa's history, on the misty shores of Saldanha Bay, lifted the lid on an international drug-smuggling ring led by the Bulgarian mafia. But the syndicate brought more than just the drug to this country's shores. Cape of Cocaine is a mini podcast series unpacking the group's operations and its dealings in South Africa. It's a tale of drugs, ghost ships, corruption and assassinations. Join me, Orrin Singh, every Monday from November 14 as I delve into the inner workings of the Bulgarian Mafia's operations on our shores, talking to journalists, investigators, partygoers and gangsters, among others.. Cape of Cocaine is brought to you by Boots on the Ground, a TimesLIVE and Arena Holdings production.

One of the biggest cocaine busts in South Africa's history, on the misty shores of Saldanha Bay, lifted the lid on an international drug-smuggling ring led by the Bulgarian mafia. But the syndicate brought more than just the drug to this country's shores. Cape of Cocaine is a mini podcast series unpacking the group's operations and its dealings in South Africa. It's a tale of drugs, ghost ships, corruption and assassinations. Join me, Orrin Singh, every Monday from November 14 as I delve into the inner workings of the Bulgarian Mafia's operations on our shores, talking to journalists, investigators, partygoers and gangsters, among others.. Cape of Cocaine is brought to you by Boots on the Ground, a TimesLIVE and Arena Holdings production. Sunday Times · TimesLIVE

JSE-listed group Sasol expects to conclude power purchase agreements for 600 MW of renewable energy “imminently” as it moves ahead with plans to meet a 2030 target of reducing its greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions by 30%, while sustaining energy and chemical production volumes. The renewables electricity will be wheeled to the group's South African operations through the Eskom grid by 2025 and Sasol expects to add a further 600 MW of renewables by 2030. The emission-reduction commitment, which was unveiled in 2021, has been made against a 2017 baseline of 63.9-million carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) tons and implies a reduction to 44.7-million CO2e tons by 2030. The group has also pledged to be a net-zero emissions company by 2050. Speaking to investors during a climate roundtable, CEO Fleetwood Grobler described the procurement of renewables as a key initial lever in its decarbonisation strategy to 2030, during which the group would also seek to displace coal with gas, reduce coal use through the closure of six coal-fired boilers in Secunda and implement energy efficiency projects. The group was also investigating several green hydrogen and green hydrogen-derivative opportunities, particularly to displace the 2.4-million tons of emissions-intensive ‘grey hydrogen' it produces currently, mainly from coal, and which the company uses to produce fuels and chemicals through its Fischer Tropsch (FT) technology. Grobler stressed, however, that meeting the 2030 GHG-reduction target was not contingent on green hydrogen, which was being viewed as a “sweetener” during the period and was expected to contribute to its further decarbonisation only after 2030. “Catalytic” green hydrogen projects would, however, be implemented during the current decade, including one to repurpose a 60 MW electrolyser at Sasolburg, in the Free State, to produce 3.5 t of the clean energy carrier daily. The green hydrogen arising would most likely be used to support green mobility projects in South Africa, including the fuelling of green-hydrogen mining haulage trucks. The group would also pursue, in partnership, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) opportunities prior to 2030, using green hydrogen in its FT process to produce jet fuel that was likely to attract a market premium from aviation companies. A study was currently under way through the so-called HyShiFT programme to produce SAF in partnership with Linde, Enertrag and Hydregen, initially under Germany's H2Global platform, into which the project would be bid. Sasol was also leading a feasibility study to explore the potential for the development of a green-hydrogen derivatives export hub at Boegoebaai, in the Northern Cape, and had entered into a green-steel partnership with ArcelorMittal South Africa, for Saldanha Bay and Vanderbijlpark. Grobler said that the reduction of electrolyser costs to produce green hydrogen to between $1/kg and $2/kg would be a key trigger for Sasol's future green-hydrogen strategy and indicated that such pricing was likely to emerge only after 2030. However, he noted that the incentives available in the US under the recently introduced Inflation Reduction Act would bolster the competitiveness of green hydrogen in that country and Sasol was, therefore, considering prospects for combining its FT technology with power-to-X solutions to produce green fuels and chemicals in that country. The immediate focus in South Africa, however, would be on replacing coal electricity with renewables and moving to secure the gas it required to displace coal in its production processes at Secunda. Recent drilling success in Mozambique had resulted in Sasol extending its gas supply plateau to 2028. Executive VP for energy Priscillah Mabelane said the extension had given the group more time to shore up its gas supply options and also reduced the pressure to conclude a liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply agreement, which she described as ‘Plan B' should it fail to secure more gas from southern Mozambiq...

JSE-listed group Sasol and ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) have announced a joint development agreement to advance studies into two potential green-economy projects, including the potential production of green hydrogen in Saldanha Bay, which could be used to produce green steel. The two companies will also pursue a Vaal carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) study, whereby renewable electricity and green hydrogen could be used to convert captured carbon from AMSA's Vanderbijlpark steel plant into sustainable fuels and chemicals. AMSA believes the initiatives have the potential to position AMSA as Africa's first green flat-steel producer. At its Saldanha Works, which is currently mothballed, green hydrogen could be employed to produce direct reduced iron (DRI) through the mill's Midrex facility. The Vaal CCU study, meanwhile, will explore capturing 1.5-million tonnes a year of unavoidable industrial carbon dioxide captured from the Vanderbijlpark Works and transporting it to Sasol's Sasolburg and Ekandustria operating facilities where, together with green hydrogen, it could eventually replace natural gas as a feedstock to produce sustainable chemicals. Sasol also announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Freeport Saldanha Industrial Development Zone to develop a globally competitive green hydrogen hub and ecosystem within Saldanha Bay. “These potential projects are an important kick-start to our decarbonisation journey and create an exciting opportunity to contribute to the South African government's aspirations to transition to a green economy,” AMSA CEO Kobus Verster said in a statement. “Just as importantly, by maximising the utilisation of our installed assets, we will also be stimulating economic growth in our host communities,” he added, noting that the projects could drive the re-industrialisation of both the Saldanha and the Vaal regions. Sasol energy business executive VP Priscillah Mabelane expressed enthusiasm for the prefeasibility and feasibility studies, which she said could unlock South Africa's potential to be a global green hydrogen and derivatives producer. “These studies are anchored by the local need for green hydrogen and sustainable products, cementing Sasol as the leading contributor to the development of Southern Africa's green hydrogen economy,” Mabelane said. Both industrial groups have stated goals of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

On the 1st of March 2021, the Saldanha Bay harbour was swarming with police vehicles. A vessel, which had been anchored in harbour for almost two months, was the object of the SAPS' attention that day and what they found on board was beyond what anyone had imagined. (24-hr trauma helpline 082-821-3447) (Support the show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/truecrimesa) (Support the show on PayPal https://www.paypal.me/truecrimesa)

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On the 1st of March 2021, the Saldanha Bay harbour was swarming with police vehicles. A vessel, which had been anchored in harbour for almost two months, was the object of the SAPS' attention that day and what they found on board was beyond what anyone had imagined. (24-hr trauma helpline 082-821-3447) (Support the show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/truecrimesa) (Support the show on PayPal https://www.paypal.me/truecrimesa)

On the 1st of March 2021, the Saldanha Bay harbour was swarming with police vehicles. A vessel, which had been anchored in harbour for almost two months, was the object of the SAPS' attention that day and what they found on board was beyond what anyone had imagined. (24-hr trauma helpline 082-821-3447) (Support the show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/truecrimesa) (Support the show on PayPal https://www.paypal.me/truecrimesa)

Refilwe Moloto speaks to ANC's chief whip at the Saldanha Bay municipality Zandile Komani-Nkohla about the shooting of a local councillor after receiving threats. We'll also hear about the postponement of the ANC's provincial conference, from Lerumo Kalako, the ANC's provincial interim chairperson.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As Cabinet is busy approving the Just Transition Framework for publication, the Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) has unpacked a key part of what the framework will be premised on – Climate Resilience Development Pathways (CRDPs). PCC commissioner Makoma Lekalakala says South Africa's Just Transition can only be realised if CRDPs are at its core, while PCC secretariat Chrispian Olver states the CRDP approach is vital for implementing the Just Transition Framework. The PCC was tasked to design a Just Transition Framework for South Africa, as a first building block towards realising a coordinated and coherent approach to just transition planning in South Africa. Olver says CRDPs, in the South African government's view, involve a deeply consultative process, particularly with people who have the most to lose in an energy transition, including workers in the coal value chain, women and the poorest of the poor. The PCC has since its establishment as an advisory body to government in December 2020 embarked on pilot projects in Saldanha Bay and eThekwini to understand and determine ways of making the energy transition equitable, while ensuring a climate-resilient future. The commission has looked at other pathway frameworks and international applications as a starting point for its work, and assessed the capacities needed to this end in South Africa. It also consulted with international experts developing and using CRDP approaches. CRDP is focused on enabling decision-makers to systemically take into account the projected impacts of climate change on strategic infrastructure development, planning and management, alongside other traditional development criteria. It helps to manage the trade-offs between multiple sectors involved in a particular project and selects the most climate-resilient development method. The PCC will further draft proposals for taking this work forward into various operating spaces. University of Cape Town African Climate and Development Institute research fellow Anna Taylor explains that the CRDP follows an integrated consideration of the various systems that make up the country and the various outcomes that are dependent on the decisions made today. The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) deems these systems to be land, ocean, coastal and freshwater ecosystems; urban, rural and infrastructure; energy; industry; and society. South Africa has taken a similar view. The IPCC regularly investigates the conceptual and empirical advances being made on CRDPs. IPCC co-chairperson and South African climate scientist Debra Roberts says limiting global warming to 1.5 ˚C above preindustrial levels is expected to substantially reduce damages to African economies and ecosystems. She believes that governance for climate resilient development includes long-term planning, all-of-government approaches, transboundary cooperation and benefit-sharing, development pathways that increase adaptation and mitigation, and Nationally Determined Contribution implementation. “Ecosystem-based adaptation in African cities has huge potential, particularly in fast-growing small- and medium-sized cities. This type of holistic thinking is centred on equity and justice, and avoids quick fixes without deeper reflection on nature or societal needs,” she states. She adds that cross-sectoral or “nexus” approaches, as encompassed in CRDPs, such as water-energy-food or climate-ecosystems-human health can deliver multiple benefits and avoid maladaptation to climate change. Roberts says that, while limiting climate damages may not do much to realise economic growth in every region, it will ensure that fewer millions of people in Africa are pushed into extreme poverty owing to climate change and negative health and livelihood impacts. She explains that even though African countries are among those that contribute least to greenhouse-gas emissions globally, there are already widespread losses and damages being experienced...

South Africa's Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) has initiated a preliminary process for the proposed development of a new deep-water port at Boegoebaai in the far Northern Cape near the Namibian border, which has been earmarked as a possible hub for the production and export of green hydrogen and derivative products. The State-owned port landlord has released a request for qualification (RFQ) for the design, funding and construction of the proposed greenfield port and rail infrastructure as a precursor to a possible future request for proposals (RFP). TNPA says the RFQ is intended to obtain information to shape the final solution as well as identify and select qualifying developers who could undertake the design, funding and construction of the port and associated infrastructure, including a rail solution to connect the port to mining and industrial hubs in the Northern Cape. It indicates that a submission of an RFQ response, together with meeting the minimum capability criteria, is a compulsory requirement to participate in any subsequent RFP. TNPA has set November 2 as the closing date for responses and will conduct a briefing session on August 16. “The information sought through the RFQ is necessary for TNPA to chart a way forward in line with our strategic objective to operationalise a port in the region by 2026,” TNPA programme director Magenthran Ruthenavelu says. He adds that the development of a port is a first step towards realising the country's ‘Green Hydrogen Strategy'. Although Boegoebaai has been identified as a key hub by President Cyril Ramaphosa for the development of a green-hydrogen sector, it faces competition from other domestic and regional locations, including Saldanha Bay in the Western Cape, Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape, an emerging Hydrogen Valley linking Mogalakwena, Johannesburg and Durban and Lüderitz, in Namibia. Boegoebaai has been earmarked as a Strategic Integrated Project by the Presidential Infrastructure Coordinating Commission Council, however, and Sasol, which has material green hydrogen ambitions of its own, confirmed last year that it had signed an agreement with the Northern Cape Development Agency to lead a feasibility study to explore the potential of the site as an export hub for green hydrogen and ammonia. “Over and above the catalytic effect of new port and rail infrastructure to the local economy, the investment could also provide an additional, cost-effective channel to market for manganese exporters in the province,” Ruthenavelu says. “It will bring much-needed relief to emerging miners who are currently restricted by high road transportation costs and no access to current export channels due to capacity constraints.”

ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) has confirmed that it will seek to secure third-party access to Transnet's rail network as part of efforts to stabilise the logistics involved in supplying key raw materials, such as iron-ore, having experienced an intense period of rail disruption during the first half of 2022, which cost it some R650-million in lost sales. CEO Kobus Verster reports it has told Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) of its intention to gain access to the rail network, despite the fact that the utility has not yet made a suitable general-freight slot available to AMSA, resulting in a legal lacuna. TFR is currently running a process to sell 16 slots, bidding for which closes at the end of August, but Transnet CEO Portia Derby has reported that third-party access will be expanded to 42 slots in 2023 and will become a permanent feature of the rail operating model. The collapse of rail services during the six months to June 30 resulted in a 235 000 t loss of sales and also resulted in AMSA taking the “extraordinary step” of implementing a month-long shutdown of one of the blast furnaces at Vanderbijlpark “to avoid the risk of an uncontrolled stop due to insufficient inventory, particularly of iron-ore”. A strike during the period resulted in the loss of a further 125 000 t of sales at a cost of R600-million. The JSE-listed group reported an 8% decrease in sales volumes during the period and a 30% drop in crude steel production, which slumped by 441 000 t, from 1.5-million tonnes to 1.1-million tonnes period-on-period. However, AMSA still reported a 22% rise in interim headline earnings of just over R3-billion, on the back of a 30% rise in realised rand steel prices. The “dysfunctional” rail situation resulted in the JSE-listed company resorting to road transportation for as much as 35% of its iron-ore and, at one point, Vanderbijlpark was receiving 6 500 trucks a month. “It should not be receiving material by road at all,” Verster highlighted. TFR indicated that its inability to service the mill was the result of a combination of a shortage of locomotives and an unavailability of spares to repair its existing fleet, owing largely to an ongoing dispute with the Chinese Railway Rolling Stock Corporation. In addition, the rail network had been badly disrupted by cable theft, with Transnet confirming that it lost 1 500 km of cable in its 2021/22 financial year alone. In the short term, the steel group is developing a road-based strategy to “fill the gap” and has also built-up buffer stocks during the period when the blast furnace was shut. However, it intends to approach TFR with a proposal for access to the network so that it can again increase the proportion of material it is receiving by rail. AMSA does not intend owning the locomotives and wagons and will seek to partner with a rail operator on the strategy. Verster says that at current low utilisation rates, Vanderbijlpark is able to operate with deliveries of ten trains a week, but that tempo should be closer to 16 trains a week for sustainable operations. RENEWABLES & GREEN DRI Meanwhile, Verster confirms that a decision has been made to push ahead with investments in solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind plants in Gauteng and the Western Cape, respectively, as part of measures to mitigate against intensifying load-shedding and to support its decarbonisation strategy. It is also possible that the solar PV investment being planned alongside its operations in Vanderbiljpark could be enlarged beyond 100 MW given President Cyril Ramaphosa's announcement that the 100 MW licence-exemption threshold for such projects had been removed. The wind project proposed for Saldanha Bay was likely to take longer to develop, as environmental authorisation was still required. Verster confirmed that AMSA, or the larger ArcelorMittal Group, would take direct equity in the projects, which were being prioritised as part of a decarbonisation roadmap, which would be released before the end of the y...

Mohammed Manjra is the CEO of Zoom Fibre, a fast-growing and agile fibre network provider that will pass 100,000 endpoints by the end of June 2022. Manjra has been in this role since November 2020 and was awarded the South Africa CEO of the Year Award by CEO Global in 2021. Prior to his appointment at Zoom Fibre, Manjra was approached to start Vumatel in 2014, with the goal of deploying the first true Fibre to the Home (FTTH) infrastructure in South Africa. He spent three years as the Vumatel Implementation Director and during this time, Manjra and his team broke records by passing more than 850,000 homes across more than 550 South African suburbs. In this What's Next interview, Manjra meets with Aki Anastasiou to discuss how Zoom Fibre is serving the missing middle. He talks about how important it is to cater to the middle- and low-income areas in South Africa and how much demand there is for the service. Manjra then tells us about the Saldanha Bay Smart City project and highlights the challenges of building public-private relationships when developing Smart Cities. He also discusses the citizens' app launched by Zoom Fibre and announces that it has officially gone live in several South African towns – including Saldanha Bay – as part of its Smart City project. Finally, Manjra talks about how Zoom Fibre's young team has enabled it to achieve its many milestones.

Before moving ahead with the procurement of gas-fired generation, South Africa should update both its Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) for electricity and its Gas Master Plan to reflect prevailing renewables and battery costs, as well as the country's carbon constraints, a new Meridian Economics study argues. Titled ‘Hot Air About Gas: An Economic Analysis of the Scope and Role for Gas-Fired Power Generation in South Africa', the study warns that the current policy approach of anchoring gas demand in the domestic electricity sector is premised on outdated cost and emission assumptions. The report has been published following recent confirmation that the IRP of 2019, which has a 3 000 MW gas-to-power allocation to 2030, will be updated and extended beyond 2030, and ahead of a proposed procurement programme for gas-fired generators. Preliminary work is also under way for the possible development of liquefied natural gas (LNG) import infrastructure at locations such as Coega, Richards Bay and Saldanha Bay, while plans for an LNG import terminal in Maputo, Mozambique, are also progressing. South Africa's current gas policy, the Meridian report notes, is based on the 2012 National Development Plan, which predated subsequent “unprecedented” technology cost changes that have since made gas-to-power three times more expensive than renewables. In addition, South Africa's remaining carbon space has halved over the period. These economic and environmental realities, Meridian's Adam Roff argues, should be fully integrated into South Africa's energy policy before it embarks on any new procurement to avoid the risk of building stranded assets and/or exposing exporters to potential carbon border tax adjustments. Meridian's own analysis indicates that, in light of the sharp fall in wind and solar costs, there is no role for large-scale gas-fired power generation in South Africa, and that the only remaining economically rational role for gas in the electricity sector would be for peaking or standby capacity. Deploying the gas generators as peakers would, thus, be incompatible with the proposal that the electricity sector should anchor demand for LNG imports. Instead, possible industrial and synfuels demand would be required to anchor such imports. The report calculates that 8 GW of flexible capacity is required by 2030, 5 GW of which is yet to be developed. If used optimally in an electricity system migrating towards higher levels of variable generation from wind and solar, such generators would stand idle for between 95% and 97% of the time, and would require between 25 PJ and 40 PJ of gas yearly by 2030. An illustrative analysis in the report shows that deploying the gas generators at higher capacity factors of between 50% and 60% would cost the consumer at least 40% more than a scenario that uses the assets in a way that complements a fleet of variable renewables generators. This price premium would rise further to about 60% as carbon taxes are introduced at higher prices as proposed by the National Treasury. DIESEL REPLACEMENT? “The opportunity for gas in power generation is thus as a fuel for low-utilisation flexible capacity, in situations where it can displace diesel at a lower cost and with lower or comparable emissions,” notes Roff, who co-authored the report with Celeste Renaud, Rian Brand, Lonwabo Mgoduso, Dr Grové Steyn and Dr Emily Tyler. The authors indicate, however, that replacing diesel with imported LNG at the existing open-cycle gas turbines (OCGTs) is complicated by the fact that these generators are scattered across several locations, making it impractical for the LNG to be aggregated and supplied through the same floating storage regasification unit. The report, thus, recommends that South Africa also investigates opportunities to use the Strategic Fuel Fund's crude storage facility in Saldanha Bay to store additional diesel, which could be distributed to peaking plants by vessel or potentially by pipeline to Ankerlig. S...

South Africa could be sitting on its next gold rush – green hydrogen With an an abundance of solar and wind resources in Saldanha Bay to supply large amounts of renewable energy, experts have urged that a green hydrogen economy be developed in the area as it reportedly had the potential to become a promising hydrogen fuel export hub. In a series of webinars by the Saldanha Bay Innovation Campus, where various panels of experts elaborated on the future of hydrogen fuel in the energy transition, Saldanha Bay was hailed as a prime location for the production of green hydrogen. To discuss the market opportunity and what needs to happen to unlock them Michael Avery is joined by Thomas Roos from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), and author of an authoritative paper on powerfuels in SA; Katrina Abhold, Project Lead – Global Opportunities at the Global Maritime Forum (GMF) & Adinda Preller, SBIDZ Executive: Transaction & Investor Support

This is episode 42 and the English have just seized the Cape. Remember at the time they were in a world war with the French and revolutionary fervour had swept the world with its populist refrain, its' berets of southern France and Liberte Equalite Fraternite narrative. This had swept the globe – all the way to Graaff-Reinet in the upper Zuurveld on the Cape frontier where the trekboers were motivated to throw off the corrupt yoke of the VOC – and then in turn, the new English rule. As we heard last episode, Major General Craig had ensconsed himself in Cape Town as the military governor and was about to take action against the Boers in Graaff-Reinet when intelligence reports indicated in January 1796 that the Batavians and their French allies were fitting out an expedition to retake Cape Town. As you've also heard, the British sent a strong naval and infantry force to the Cape and by July 1796 there were 8 400 troops stationed there with another 1000 on their way. There were now fourteen warships patrolling the seaways around the Cape. So the Batavian squadron of eight warships and a cargo vessel took five months to sail to the Cape because its commander, Rear Admiral Engelbertus Lucas had to evade British patrols. On the 6th August 1796 he anchored in Saldanha Bay on the west coast north of Cape Town. Lucas had anticipated support from a French squadron but they had decided to bypass mainland Africa and head straight to the Isle de France – or Mauritius as we know it today. By the 1790s a powerful farmer by the name of Jacob Van Reenen had built his fortune in landholdings, meat trade and the production and sale of alcohol. On his death in 1793, Jacob left a number of sons, all of whom rose to prominence in Cape society. One son called Dirk, built the largest and most successful wine businesses there, while two others sons, Jacobus Gijsbert and Sebastiaan, went into the lucrative meat merchanting business.

This is episode 42 and the English have just seized the Cape. Remember at the time they were in a world war with the French and revolutionary fervour had swept the world with its populist refrain, its' berets of southern France and Liberte Equalite Fraternite narrative. This had swept the globe – all the way to Graaff-Reinet in the upper Zuurveld on the Cape frontier where the trekboers were motivated to throw off the corrupt yoke of the VOC – and then in turn, the new English rule. As we heard last episode, Major General Craig had ensconsed himself in Cape Town as the military governor and was about to take action against the Boers in Graaff-Reinet when intelligence reports indicated in January 1796 that the Batavians and their French allies were fitting out an expedition to retake Cape Town. As you've also heard, the British sent a strong naval and infantry force to the Cape and by July 1796 there were 8 400 troops stationed there with another 1000 on their way. There were now fourteen warships patrolling the seaways around the Cape. So the Batavian squadron of eight warships and a cargo vessel took five months to sail to the Cape because its commander, Rear Admiral Engelbertus Lucas had to evade British patrols. On the 6th August 1796 he anchored in Saldanha Bay on the west coast north of Cape Town. Lucas had anticipated support from a French squadron but they had decided to bypass mainland Africa and head straight to the Isle de France – or Mauritius as we know it today. By the 1790s a powerful farmer by the name of Jacob Van Reenen had built his fortune in landholdings, meat trade and the production and sale of alcohol. On his death in 1793, Jacob left a number of sons, all of whom rose to prominence in Cape society. One son called Dirk, built the largest and most successful wine businesses there, while two others sons, Jacobus Gijsbert and Sebastiaan, went into the lucrative meat merchanting business.

This is episode 42 and the English have just seized the Cape. Remember at the time they were in a world war with the French and revolutionary fervour had swept the world with its populist refrain, its' berets of southern France and Liberte Equalite Fraternite narrative. This had swept the globe – all the way to Graaff-Reinet in the upper Zuurveld on the Cape frontier where the trekboers were motivated to throw off the corrupt yoke of the VOC – and then in turn, the new English rule. As we heard last episode, Major General Craig had ensconsed himself in Cape Town as the military governor and was about to take action against the Boers in Graaff-Reinet when intelligence reports indicated in January 1796 that the Batavians and their French allies were fitting out an expedition to retake Cape Town. As you've also heard, the British sent a strong naval and infantry force to the Cape and by July 1796 there were 8 400 troops stationed there with another 1000 on their way. There were now fourteen warships patrolling the seaways around the Cape. So the Batavian squadron of eight warships and a cargo vessel took five months to sail to the Cape because its commander, Rear Admiral Engelbertus Lucas had to evade British patrols. On the 6th August 1796 he anchored in Saldanha Bay on the west coast north of Cape Town. Lucas had anticipated support from a French squadron but they had decided to bypass mainland Africa and head straight to the Isle de France – or Mauritius as we know it today. By the 1790s a powerful farmer by the name of Jacob Van Reenen had built his fortune in landholdings, meat trade and the production and sale of alcohol. On his death in 1793, Jacob left a number of sons, all of whom rose to prominence in Cape society. One son called Dirk, built the largest and most successful wine businesses there, while two others sons, Jacobus Gijsbert and Sebastiaan, went into the lucrative meat merchanting business.

This is episode 42 and the English have just seized the Cape. Remember at the time they were in a world war with the French and revolutionary fervour had swept the world with its populist refrain, its' berets of southern France and Liberte Equalite Fraternite narrative. This had swept the globe – all the way to Graaff-Reinet in the upper Zuurveld on the Cape frontier where the trekboers were motivated to throw off the corrupt yoke of the VOC – and then in turn, the new English rule. As we heard last episode, Major General Craig had ensconsed himself in Cape Town as the military governor and was about to take action against the Boers in Graaff-Reinet when intelligence reports indicated in January 1796 that the Batavians and their French allies were fitting out an expedition to retake Cape Town. As you've also heard, the British sent a strong naval and infantry force to the Cape and by July 1796 there were 8 400 troops stationed there with another 1000 on their way. There were now fourteen warships patrolling the seaways around the Cape. So the Batavian squadron of eight warships and a cargo vessel took five months to sail to the Cape because its commander, Rear Admiral Engelbertus Lucas had to evade British patrols. On the 6th August 1796 he anchored in Saldanha Bay on the west coast north of Cape Town. Lucas had anticipated support from a French squadron but they had decided to bypass mainland Africa and head straight to the Isle de France – or Mauritius as we know it today. By the 1790s a powerful farmer by the name of Jacob Van Reenen had built his fortune in landholdings, meat trade and the production and sale of alcohol. On his death in 1793, Jacob left a number of sons, all of whom rose to prominence in Cape society. One son called Dirk, built the largest and most successful wine businesses there, while two others sons, Jacobus Gijsbert and Sebastiaan, went into the lucrative meat merchanting business.

Turkish owned company, Karpowerships SA, says it will appeal the decision by the Forestry, Fisheries and Environmental Affairs department to reject it's bid of providing floating gas-fired power ships at three of the country's ports. This after the department rejected the potential deal with the company, citing insufficient public participation and the potential impact on the environment of the project. The Karpowerships, which are estimated to cost over 200-Billion Rands over a 20 year period, were expected to assist the power-grid by bringing in gas-burning ships at Richards Bay, Saldanha Bay and the Ngqura harbours to generate electricity. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment Department has suspended the environmental impact assessment process for Karpowership South Africa in Saldanha Bay. Bongani speaks to Liz McDaid, Strategic Lead at Green Connection. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Saldanha Bay Industrial Development Zone has received a R3.5 billion investment for its port expansion project, which is expected to boost economic growth. Business Day TVs Alishia Seckam spoke to Kaashifah Beukes, CEO of the Saldanha Bay Industrial Development Zone for more detail.