Europe's coal imports hammered by Transnet strike
The price of importing coal to Europe’s largest ports rose the most since May as a strike in South Africa curtails shipments of the fuel during the middle of an energy crisis.
The action by Transnet SOC Ltd. employees is “lasting longer than...
Transnet workers going on strike — brace for shipping delays
Labour unions at South Africa’s state-owned ports and freight-rail company threatened to begin a strike this week after rejecting its latest wage offer, a move that may curb shipments of coal and other minerals.
The United National...
Former Eskom and Transnet bosses arrested
Former Eskom and Transnet executives Brian Molefe and Anoj Singh were among several former high-profile Transnet employees arrested on Monday morning for their alleged role in a corrupt train tender, News24 reports.
According to a statement from the...
Ramaphosa's Eskom 2.0 plan — from a country that can't run SAA, Transnet, Denel, or Eskom 1.0
Energy expert Chris Yelland does not believe that forming a second power utility to compete with Eskom is a viable solution to the country's energy problems.
In an interview with Business Day TV...
Cyril Ramaphosa's private data hacked
Hacking group SpiderLog$ has obtained the details of a loan President Cyril Ramaphosa took out from one of South Africa's top four banks in the 2000s, the Sunday Times reported.
SpiderLog$ said it was able to use data leaked by another group called...
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SA missing out on commodity price boom thanks to damaged Transnet railways
South Africa is missing out on some of the riches on offer from the commodities boom as a rail network beset by problems hobbles its exports.
While coal prices recently soared to a record and iron ore is historically...
How Telkom, Eskom, and Transnet paid R1 million per business breakfast to the Gupta's TNA
Part 1 of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into State Capture Report has exposed how the Gupta-linked The New Age (TNA) made millions from state-owned enterprises (SOEs) through its business breakfasts...
Cable theft and spare parts shortage paralyse South African railways
Approximately 200 of Transnet's new locomotives are lying dormant due to an inability to get spares combined with overhead cable theft, according to a Sunday Times report.
This is costing South Africa billions in lost export...
“We warned government about total railway collapse 20 years ago — but they did nothing”
The South African government was warned about the potential collapse of the country's railway system two decades ago but did not implement measures to prevent it, former Transnet executive Tau Morwe has told...
Copper cable chaos — 3km stolen every day
Over 1,000km of Transnet's rail copper cable has been stolen in 2021. The company is now considering a complete switch from diesel-electric to diesel-only locomotives.
Transnet ransomware hackers did not get a single cent
Transnet did not pay any money to the hackers responsible for bringing much of the company’s operations to a grinding halt through a ransomware attack on its IT systems in late July.
This was according to public enterprises minister Pravin...
Attack on Transnet was an act of cyber war — expert
The ransomware attack on Transnet's IT infrastructure that caused activity at South Africa's ports to slow to a crawl was an act of cyberwarfare, Rapport and its sister paper City Press reported.
The papers quoted Noëlle van der Waag-Cowling...
South Africa faces national shutdown of IT infrastructure, warns DA
DA shadow minister of public enterprises Ghaleb Cachalia has warned that South Africa could face a national shutdown on its Information Technology (IT) infrastructure following the Transnet hack.
Last week, Transnet suffered a...
New details about Transnet cyberattack
Transnet has been the victim of a ransomware attack, eNCA journalist Sli Masikane has reported.
The report stated that Transnet employees received notices to disconnect all their devices from the state-owned logistics company's network and not to access...
Transnet hacked — South Africa's port systems offline
Transnet has been hacked, causing South Africa's ports and freight rail services to grind to a halt.
Supply chain management company ISS Global Forwarding announced on Twitter that it received information that Transnet was the victim of a...
Government failure will disrupt plans to procure emergency power
Plans to procure emergency power from three Karpowership vessels are at risk because the Department of Public Enterprises has not established an independent ports authority, reports the City Press.
Karpowership SA is meant to...
SIU seizes Transnet executive's houses, farm, and 35 cars
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has seized 35 vehicles, several upmarket properties, and a farm from former Transnet Capital Projects executive Herbert Msagala and his family, according to a report by the City Press.
Vehicles...
As a trucker mainly doing container freight, I always use Transnet Port Terminals and their service is below standard in the majority of container terminals that I have been to. Traffic disruptions are the order of the day. Just today a trucker was killed after a crane fell onto his truck in...