South Africa’s move to renewable energy means that the coal industry will be phased out over the coming decades.

Labor unions and communities in the eastern region, which supplies almost all of South Africa’s electricity and coal, have ...

For example, in South Africa there are 78 operating coal mines. Of these, 65 (or 83%) are located in the south-west part of Mpumalanga province. These 65 mines also account for approximately 80% ...

However, mining of coal for electricity generation is still unavoidable in South Africa and since the majority of coal reserves coincide with highly productive agricultural land, the impact is ...

South Africa has the potential to be the strongest producer, user and exporter of coal on the continent, but political ...

South Africa currently relies on coal for about four-fifths of its electricity ... the biggest labor groups in the mining and the power-generation industries, expressed concern about energy ...

The coal lobby remains active ... The DRC Minerals Link South Africa's mining interests in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are increasingly intertwined with the global push for energy ...

Exxaro Resources Ltd., one of South Africa’s biggest coal producers, wants to become a major player in the country’s manganese mining industry. After losing out on a copper mine in Botswana ...

"The coal industry and its jobs are not sustainable," French ambassador to South Africa ... Central Africa. A story on the environmental disaster of Ghana’s artisanal gold mining won him a ...

“[Sasol Mining] is not privy to the end-use destinations of our coal product or where our customers ultimately sell on our coal,” spokesperson Alex Anderson says. According to spokesperson Chrispin ...

South Africa’s coal production has been declining, and Prevost attributed this to aging mines and a lack of new projects. “The country is going down in coal production almost every year.