Ferrochrome gets Eskom relief while manganese and silicon producers are left in the dark
Daily Maverick | 07.04.2026 02:33
The answer you’re looking for is: the equivalent of the combined monthly electricity use of between four and 10 households – this of course requires averaging out monthly consumption to around 450kWh. South Africa exports about 30,000 tonnes of ferrochrome alloy per week – close to half of the global supply. We should be pushing out 70,000 tonnes a week, because that’s where we were before things got crazy on the electricity tariff front.
