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PETER BRUCE | Firing up furnaces requires Churchillian-like sagacity

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By Peter Bruce 
| BusinessLIVE
The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has finally approved the terms of a dramatic electricity tariff cut to South Africa’s remaining, and struggling, ferrochrome smelters, bringing their electricity costs down from more than R1.30/kWh to just 62c/kWh. The decision has allowed the two main remaining smelters, Glencore and Samancor, to lift section 189 redundancy notices to thousands of staff, including many highly skilled workers.
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PETER BRUCE | The key X is the one on the ballot paper

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By Peter Bruce 
| Sunday Times
Story audio is generated using AI Another unedifying week on X. If I were running a political party I would think about not allowing any ranking member to spontaneously tweet anything other than their schedule, a regular newsletter or podcast or a considered response to a public tragedy. Data collected by Gareth van Onselen’s Victory Research — the most highly regarded pollster in the country — shows almost 95% of the electorate either don’t know what X (formerly Twitter) is or hardly ever use it.
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PETER BRUCE | Oil and gas are no longer the fuels of the future

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By Peter Bruce 
| BusinessLIVE
I’ve been preparing for a trip to Europe, and it’s been a relief of sorts to watch Europeans react really badly to the significant heatwave washing over the continent. They argue there just as bitterly as we argue here. On French social media the insult crétin is widely used, both by climate change sceptics who argue May’s record high temperatures merely herald the arrival of an early summer, and by defenders of climate change orthodoxy who find their worst fears being confirmed.
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