Entries by Jef

Ayanda Mjekula appointed to Safika board

Mr. Saki Macozoma, Safika’s chairman, has announced the appointment of Ayanda Mjekula to Safika Holdings’ board of directors. Mr. Mjekula formerly held many senior positions in banking, including being a director of Standard Bank and has experience in areas of credit, retail operations, public sector banking and social strategy. After opting for early retirement 2007, […]

Safika pays tribute to Nelson Mandela

In years to come it is entirely possible that the world will view Nelson Mandela as one of the greatest men who ever lived. He led the people of South Africa to freedom from tyranny and then, through the virtues of tolerance and forgiveness, won over his persecutors and created a society in which both […]

First train arrives at Tshipi Borwa

Tshipi Borwa, our new manganese mine in South Africa’s Northern Cape, has reached another milestone. The first train has arrived at the mine and is now being loaded with the mine’s first shipment of manganese destined for the Far East.

Tshipi é Ntle’s Tshipi Borwa mine’s first manganese ore.

Tshipi é Ntle’s Tshipi Borwa mine in South Africa’s Northern Cape has mined its first manganese ore. It took 11 months of continuous 24 hour-a-day operations to shift the waste rock overlaying Tshipi’s ore resources. Tshipi blasted its first ore on the 10 October, several weeks earlier than planned. Ore loading commenced within hours. Justin […]

Saki Macozoma has been honoured by UNISA

Safika’s non-executive chairman Saki Macozoma has been honoured by the University of South Africa (UNISA) which has made him and former president Nelson Mandela joint recipients of the university’s first Robben Island alumnus award. The award, part of the Calabash awards that are UNISA’s highest honours, is to honour those who were imprisoned by the […]

Tshipi’s new rail siding gets a place in the history books

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Transnet is compiling the first-ever distributed power train for manganese, made up of 208 wagons. The train will be loaded at the newly completed rail siding of black-controlled emerging manganese miner Tshipi é Ntle’s new project, near Kathu, in the Northern Cape. “It’s the train of the future,” Tshipi é Ntle CEO […]