The importance of South African coal to the market is impossible to overestimate.

With the continual growth expected on the international markets, the puzzling lack of South African expansion in recent years has been the major driving force behind unprecedented world price levels. But whatever the world is counting on from South Africa, the needs of the country’s own power producers have for a ready supply of reliable, local, competitive coal is paramount to its growth and prosperity.

The conundrum is, with all this need, and with 2008’s extraordinary prices, why can’t this coal get to market?

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