South32 smelters face shutdown

the near-permanent load-shedding schedule imposed by Eskom lately on South African consumers is nothing new to South32, a Johannesburg- and Sydney-listed mining company.

As the operator of two large aluminium smelting complexes in SA and Mozambique, consuming about 2 200MW, the company has been on a weekly power rationing regime for years.

Now, however, the smelters could face shutdown if the National Energy Regulator