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SA Mining - July / August 2019

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WEBBER WENZIL

UNLOCKING SA’S
ENERGY POTENTIAL
A five- to 10-year outlook on the electricity supply industry
Fundamental structural change is needed
in the South African electricity supply for greater transparency and competition in the
industry. And one can empathise with the electricity market. Finance Minister Tito Mboweni
complex balance that our decision makers announced in his Budget speech in February
that Eskom would get R23-billion a year for the

need to strike in order to achieve this next three years from government, under strict

change. Eskom, our vertically integrated electricity conditions. These include the establishment of a

monopoly, is failing – both to provide su icient transmission company in which the private sector

electricity and to meet its financial obligations. will be able to invest and which will provide open

There is a need to forge a sustainable energy future and equitable grid access to multiple generators

for a country largely dependent on coal-fired power of electricity. Members of government and trade

while also bringing about a just transition for all unions have strongly opposed the restructuring

industry participants, especially our workers, of Eskom, and this opposition will need to be

from a coal-heavy energy economy to a clean one. carefully addressed. Key to addressing trade

The unlocking of private sector capital, expertise, Jason van der Poel union concerns will be a well-thought-out and
e iciency, cost-e ectiveness and competitive drive widely adopted strategy to achieving a just
will be central to a successful energy future in South Partner at Webber Wenzil transition from a coal-intensive economy to a low-

Africa. The private sector can and must be enjoined carbon, climate-resilient economy and society.

in a way that ensures job creation, equitable This means adopting policies, possibly involving

participation and growth. financial and tax incentives, and coordinated education and

“WHAT CAN MINERS AND COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL training programmes, that will meaningfully protect the livelihoods

INVESTORS EXPECT FROM THE SOUTH AFRICAN ELECTRICITY of workers through the transition.
SUPPLY INDUSTRY IN THE COMING YEARS? Second, we can expect clarity on South Africa’s future energy
First, Eskom is going to be unbundled into three separate
businesses – generation, transmission and distribution – to allow mix through the imminent finalisation of the Integrated Resource
Plan (IRP) 2019. On 6 March 2019, a new dra IRP 2019 was
submitted to the National Economic Development and Labour

The IRP is an electricity infrastructure development plan based “
on a least-cost electricity supply and demand balance.
– Van der Poel
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The views expressed are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect SA Mining’s editorial policy.

48 SA MINING JULY / AUGUST 2019

“ © ISTOCK – kurga

There is a need to forge a sustainable energy future for a country “
largely dependent on coal-fired power while also bringing about a

just transition for all industry participants.
– Van der Poel

Council (NEDLAC) for review and the making of recommendations the most important ways to bridge electricity supply gaps in
to cabinet. Having gone through a public commenting process, the the next five to 10 years in South Africa. A Licensing Exemption
IRP will then be subject to policy interventions by government, and Registration Notice published in November 2017 under the
finalised and published in the Government Gazette. The IRP is an Electricity Regulation Act, requiring plants between 100kW and
electricity infrastructure development plan based on a least-cost 1MW in capacity to register with the National Energy Regulator of
electricity supply and demand balance, taking into account security South Africa (NERSA) and pay a R200 registration fee, has effectively
of supply and the environment. The 2010 IRP was intended to be a impeded the operation of substantial small-scale embedded
living document, updated every two years, but it is now out of date. generation capacity. This is allegedly as a result of NERSA’s slowness
The 2019 version looks set to become the first update. Some key to register these plants. A revised notice has been prepared by
features of the draft IRP before NEDLAC are the procurement, by the Department of Energy and is awaiting public consultation and
2030, of: 19 630MW of new solar photovoltaic and wind-generation NERSA’s concurrence before being implemented. In relation to
capacity without the previously envisaged delay until 2025; plants above 1MW in capacity, before the November 2017 notice,
3 000MW of additional gas or diesel generation capacity; an open, “own-generation” plants did not require registration or licensing.
unquantified allocation of distributed generation up to 2022 to the The notice provides that plants above the 1MW threshold must
extent of any short-term capacity and energy gaps, then 500MW be licensed, but in order to do so, need a letter from the energy
per year from 2023 to 2030; 1 500MW of new coal-fired power to minister approving a deviation from the IRP 2010, which does
be commissioned in two equal batches in 2023 and 2027; 2 500MW not have an allocation for embedded or distributed generation.
of hydro power; 2 088MW of electricity storage; and a 1 860MW This issue has affected several substantial captive power solar
extension of Koeberg nuclear power plant’s life to be commissioned photovoltaic projects that had been planned for installation on
in 2024. Much of this new capacity will be built by the private sector mines and at commercial and industrial facilities in South Africa.
after competitive independent power producer (IPP) procurement, This obstacle should be removed once the new IRP 2019 has been
which will include specific economic development imperatives finalised and published.
placed on IPPs.
Top priority must be given to the urgent finalisation of the
Rising electricity prices from Eskom and electricity supply IRP 2019, the establishment of a clear vision for the electricity
uncertainty have caused miners and commercial and industrial supply industry in South Africa that is consistent with the IRP,
investors in South Africa to explore generating their own power. the restructuring of the electricity supply industry in a way that
Of particular relevance is the allocation under the draft IRP 2019 efficiently achieves that vision, and the restructuring of Eskom to
to distributed generation. This large and partially unquantified support that vision. The private sector will be critical in achieving
allocation speaks to the realisation by decision makers that this, but must be given the policy and regulatory certainty it
distributed generation by the private sector constitutes one of requires in order to get involved and help grow the economy. n

SA Mining JULY / AUgUST 2019 49

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IN ON AFRICA

4IR NEW INNOVATIONS IN
AFRICANhe past few years have proved MINING

challenging for the African mining materials to extract. Its local subsidiary, Kumba Iron
industry, with constantly shi ing Ore, also recently helped its Australian counterparts
to develop the first semi-autonomous drill rig.
Tcommodity prices, increasing costs of
Others like Vedanta Zinc have similarly moved

exploration and extraction, and changing ahead with mine digitalisation through innovations

operational requirements, in part brought on by the in flotation technology and smart ore movement

onset of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). so ware. The so ware uses a system of sensors

There’s been much speculation as to how the to localise impurities in manganese in large

4IR will a ect mining across Africa, particularly low-grade ore bodies. Exxaro is another mining

from an automation perspective, with many fearing company that has placed larger emphasis on

the impacts of mechanisation. Regardless, there tapping into 4IR innovations including big data,

is a need to assess how new technology can be the internet of things (IoT), advanced analytics and

incorporated into African mining operations and artificial intelligence (AI). One of the key benefits

what sort of local innovations can help the strategic Ogi Williams of using these technologies has been predictive
development of the industry. There is potential to maintenance of equipment and the reduction of
tap into the benefits of developing native mining Associate Director at unplanned breakdowns.

equipment and autonomous transportation, while In On Africa Advancements in 4IR automation and

also increasing downstream mineral beneficiation transportation are also beginning to transform

and using 4IR technologies to improve mine health and safety. the African mining landscape. In 2018 Resolute Mining completed its

DEVELOPMENTS IN MINING EQUIPMENT, AUTOMATION AND $223-million Syama gold mine in Mali, making it the first autonomous

TRANSPORTATION underground mine in the world. The current arrangement of the

The onset of 4IR is already allowing mine would increase productivity and decrease costs by some 30%.

mining companies to start moving Fibre-optic connectivity at the

into a more technical innovation- mine would further enable mobile

led direction. Anglo American for equipment and guidance system

one is planning to invest some monitoring.

$6-billion in modernising its South BENEFITS TO HEALTH AND
SAFETY
African operations to extend

life of mines. Its FutureSmart One of the key premises for making
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programme is paying dividends IMAGE COURTESY: RESOLUTE MININGgreater use of 4IR in mining relates

through improvements in water The views expressed are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect SA Mining’s editorial policy.to health and safety. Though much

use when separating fine ore progress has been made in terms

particles from mineral dross. The of increasing mine safety in South

company is also using data and Africa for example – from the 220

advanced simulations to increase With the first fully automated mine being fatalities in 2007 down to 88 in
located in Africa, the impact of innovations in
mine e iciency through “digital 4IR will be widely felt across African mining. 2017 – more can be done to ensure
twin” modelling which allows it that mine workers are removed
to be more selective about what from dangerous environments.

50 SA MINING JULY / AUGUST 2019

Kumba Iron Ore for one has moved ahead with making greater use such example which provides benefits such as automated ore-
of drones in its South African mining operations. Using drones for loading capabilities which ensure even ore distribution on trains,
surveying processes is minimising the risk of sending surveyors to thereby reducing derailment risk. Going forward there will also be an
dangerous environments, while simultaneously making use of big increasing need for more engineers in designing drone technology,
data capabilities to enhance processes. building sustainable self-driving vehicles, and developing machinery
and robotics that allow for automation technology compatibility. The
Other 4IR developments such as those highlighted by Anglo investments being made by Anglo American, Exxaro and Vedanta Zinc
American, Exxaro and Resolute Mining have a health and safety angle also have a strong angle of mineral beneficiation in the South African
attached to them in minimising the risk that increasingly deeper and context on the back of the government’s programme to increase
more intricate mining poses to mine workers. In mid-2018 South mineral beneficiation in tandem with the increasing 4IR evolution of
Africa’s Council on Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) unveiled a the country’s mining industry.
number of new technologies that will be used to improve mine health
and safety including the Monster robot platform which has safety the roaD aheaD
inspection sensors used to detect and assess risks in underground Looking at the various advancements being made surrounding
mines. The CSIR has also introduced the Ground Penetrating Radar the 4IR, there is much that can be gained for African mining. A key
(GPR) which allows miners to visualise geological structures that may criticism to the larger implementation of 4IR initiatives has however
be hazardous and lead to cave-ins. been the viability of introducing some of these technologies in deep
underground mining environments. High temperatures and high
Downstream effect on mineral beneficiation energy use are some of the current impediments to using more
The key outtakes of 4IR developments inevitably need to have a advanced technologies in underground mining. Other challenges
direct link to greater mineral beneficiation across Africa. Training and which new technologies will face include high humidity and tough
skills development through the operation of autonomous vehicles, operating environments to navigate. Nevertheless there is much
remote mining technology and online-based systems are some of potential for further integration of 4IR technologies in African mining.
the biggest benefits given the ability to cross-pollinate workers into Increased productivity, health and safety and mineral beneficiation
peripheral industries. These peripheral industries – like consulting and opportunities will add greater value to the longer-term development
engineering – are themselves making greater use of 4IR. of the industry. n

The Accenture Consulting Industry X.o software package is one

$6-billion

“ Amount Anglo American is planning to invest in
modernising its South African operations

Using drones for “
surveying processes is
minimising the risk of
sending surveyors to
dangerous environments.

– Williams

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MOMENTUM SECURITIES

LAND RESTITUTION AND
REDISTRIBUTION
The best way forward for South Africahe way forward is to look at our land as
So what, you may ask, would this achieve?
a whole – rather than as an agricultural, Would those landowners using land ine iciently,
urban, mining, marine or other resource. or merely holding for speculation, not have to
sell or invest so as to use it properly? Would this
TThis is best achieved by understanding
the phenomenon of rent or locational not make land much more freely available and

advantage which arises because land varies so a ordable as well as greatly stimulate the economy

enormously in value that production on di erent with fresh investment? Would the absence of tax

sites of the same size di er greatly even with not encourage new business startups and greatly

the same inputs of labour and capital. So when accelerate land redistribution?

Adam Smith said rent was the price paid for the So let’s get back to restitution. Knowing that

use of land, he described how the landlord would the beneficiary would have to pay the people their

calculate the rent so as to leave the farmer with the rent, would we not have to ensure that s/he had the

minimum acceptable rate of return on his capital necessary capacity to use the land e iciently so as

and labour. This would have to be next to nothing Stephen Meintjes to pay the people their rent? Thus restitution would
to entice a farmer onto a barren Highland moor, boost agriculture instead of being a drag on it.
but would be way higher on lush English farmland. Equities consultant at
So what about urban land and the perpetual
Momentum Securities and housing shortage? Is it not obvious that the
So land prices reflect the market’s best estimate of co-author of Our Land, Our peripheries of our cities abound in land that is not

rental potential.

Moreover, we must not repeat the mistakes Rent, Our Jobs being used e iciently? Now all of it, whether state

in land restitution over the past 20 years that le or privately owned, would be subject to payment

many once-prosperous operations lying desolate. These errors have of land rent and therefore incentivised to develop or sell in exactly

been detailed by Professor Ruth Hall of the Institute for Poverty, Land the same way as we have seen with agricultural land.

and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) and include not granting titles to the And what about suburban and prime central business district

beneficiaries who consequently could not raise the necessary working (CBD) land? Here again, this would promote government policies of

capital. In any case, however, the process will be vastly improved if densification since owners of large stands would be encouraged to

everybody understands what rent is all about. subdivide. Likewise, prime CBD land would not stand idle for long.

If we are looking And it gets better.

at the land of South The tax burden on

Africa as a whole, the rural areas would

best place to start is disappear to be

in the preamble to our replaced by rentals

constitution, which which would be next

states that, “South to nothing on marginal

Africa belongs to all grazing land and

who live in it” – which correspondingly higher
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makes one ask, “Why The views expressed are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect SA Mining’s editorial policy.on prime irrigable

do we not collect the land. The former

rent on our land?” homelands have never

A er all, who is it that recovered from the

grants our landowners sudden termination

the security of tenure of apartheid-era tax

which enables them to breaks and their

enjoy the natural and replacement with

manmade advantages much higher direct and

of their land? Surely we indirect taxes. They

have to agree that it is would now boom.

the community, or its While land rents

proxy, the government? in the townships

So whether we like it or would be low, thus

not, is it not true that all land value is due to the state? facilitating business startups, the rents on prime CBD land would be

So would it not then be logical for the state to collect land rent on astronomical. Not so long ago land around Pofadder could be had

behalf of “all who live in” South Africa? Remember that when we say for R400 per hectare while Sandton was going at R40 000 per m .

land, we mean land, just land. Bare, unimproved land. In other words So the market was saying that land at the centre was a million times

landowners continue in full ownership of their properties with all their more valuable than land at the fringes.

buildings and other improvements: they just have to pay land rent While space does not permit exploration in detail, the auction

according to the unimproved value of their land. mechanism could be used for spectrum and fishing quotas, while in

But here’s the thing. The closer the state gets to collecting the full mining an earlier version of the current gold mines formula tax could

land rent, the more likely this is to replace most, if not all, taxes. So the be rolled out to the rest of the mining industry. So marginal mines

state collects the value it creates, i.e. land rent, while landowners, and would pay minimal company tax and richer mines much more, thus

for that matter all workers and business owners, receive the full return reducing the need for subsidies and calls for windfall taxes.

on their labour and capital. Then all we have to do is sit back and watch the economy take o . ■

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MINING WITH THE MAJOR

SOUTH AFRICA’S

STATE OF THE NATION
ADDRESS (SONA)
© Robert Tshabalala @ Financial Mail
“What kind of man would put a known of South Africa’s in the 1960s. And yet with very
criminal in charge of a major branch few natural resources, look where South Korea
of government? Apart from, say, the is today. Focusing on the rear-view mirror while
average voter.” – Terry Pratchett telling your passengers (population) that you are
“SONAs” are defined in the really trying to safely take them to a better future

Urban Dictionary as “very caring girls, who always is worse than disingenuous. It is a deadly lie as

try to do their best in everything. They will always it can lead to nothing but a massive long-term,

be friendly to everyone, whether or not they like prolonged, irreversible crash. And that is where SA

them”. finds itself today – o the road, way o the road –

Well there are many di erences between this pulling us all further from the highway, which we so

definition of SONA and South Africa’s. Many, if not desperately need to be on.

most, South Africans are finding it hard to believe Yes. South Africa has way too much poverty

that our SONA, our government, our politicians are and unemployment and overly wide income

very caring at all, let alone always trying to do their Peter Major disparity. But is it purely coincidental that the
best in everything. former labour leaders who caused the loss
Cadiz Corporate Solutions of nearly 1.5 million jobs in our mining and
On the contrary, the results these past decades Director: Mining supporting industries alone are now billionaires or
seem to bear out exactly the opposite. Our SONAs

seem too o en to not care about the country, let parliamentary ministers? How ironic is that? And

alone its citizens and other individuals – especially those only recently yet business, especially mining, is still being demonised as the bad

or not yet born. How else can one measure their concern when one guy. How dishonest is that?

looks at the numbers from 20 or so years ago? Unemployment is up Certainly if South Africa had more than 25% of its population

from six million to over nine million people. Debt is up from R400- working, the 17 million on welfare and nine-plus million unemployed

billion to nearly R2.9-trillion. would be better utilised. If all

What exactly have we done the surveys of SA’s citizens that

with R2.5-trillion we borrowed SA’s Post-War Real GDP Growth ask “What concerns you the
these past 20 years? Was any most?” keep coming up with
of it invested in productive 6% employment as the number

return assets? Was all of it stolen 5% one concern, and Ramaphosa’s
or squandered? Is none of it 4% opening statement at last
recoverable? When government month’s SONA was “We are

has R22-trillion (today’s terms) 3% not creating jobs.” – If this is
given to them over the past 20 2% the concern that rises above
years, can they honestly look all others, shouldn’t that direct

you in the eye and say, “Sorry 1% all our government’s actions, The views expressed are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect SA Mining’s editorial policy.
– it wasn’t enough. I needed to 0% policies and rhetoric? Jobs,
borrow R2.5-trillion more. But Mr President, Mr and Mrs
I’m going to stick you and your 1946-50 1951-60 1961-70 1971-80 1981-90 91-2000 2001-10 2011-15 2016-17 2018-19 Cabinet Ministers and 490

kids with the obligation to Parliamentarians. Jobs! All the

pay it back.”? The size of these Government Debt R-trillion rest is secondary.
numbers are astounding. Give your mining industry a
3.0

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s 2.5 chance to help the country again
June 2019 SONA made great – as they did for 150 years. Tear

mention of all the wrongs of R trillion 2.0 o the manacles of prejudices,
the past few decades – but was 1.5 revenge, legislation and policy
very vague as to whom exactly changes that have chained and

caused and was responsible 1.0 crucified mining these past
for these wrongs. How were two decades. Give them back

they able to do it? And who 0.5 economic power and electricity

abetted and assisted them? Let 0.0 and water and logistics. Un-
alone what was being done to 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 demonise them and mining will
apprehend those responsible create more – far more – direct

and to retrieve what was stolen – and indirect real jobs than all

and made to pay back what was squandered. How and when remedial those fantasy industries and projects and fake jobs government has

action is going to be taken was conveniently le o .  been legislating, subsidising and conjuring up. 

Yet one cannot just pretend the R25-trillion in today’s terms of Cadre deployment and cronyism never got a mention in this SONA.

government expenditure since 1999 didn’t happen. Germany and And if any two policies and acts should have been singled out for

Japan were in infinitely worse shape than almost any country on the extermination it should have been those two. Unfortunately mining

planet in 1945. And they never had anywhere near the endowment also got no mention in this month’s SONA. Neither did meritocracy.

and budget SA did. Yet look where they were by 1965 let alone 1970. And if ever there were any silver bullets to assist South Africa out of

South Korea’s education, GDP and even literacy were far below those the muck, those two are it.  ■

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