South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal has dismissed Kalagadi Manganese's challenge to the IDC's authority to place the Northern Cape miner into business rescue, ending a long legal battle over its debts.
South Africa's energy regulator has approved a two-year discounted Eskom tariff for Manganese Metal Company, whose Mpumalanga plant relies on electricity for around 41% of production costs.
Setrag signed a €312m financing agreement with the IFC and Proparco on 20 July 2026 for the third phase of modernising the Trans-Gabon Railway, the line that carries manganese ore from Moanda to the Atlantic coast.
Eramet and the Gabonese government have signed a memorandum of understanding setting out an industrial roadmap to process up to 700,000 tonnes of manganese ore a year in Gabon by 2031, ahead of a planned export ban.
Transalloys, South Africa's only remaining manganese alloy smelter, stopped all furnace operations on 1 July 2026 after being excluded from the emergency electricity tariff that rescued ferrochrome producers.
Giyani Metals' definitive feasibility study for the K.Hill project puts initial capital at $535m and after-tax NPV at $481.5m, positioning Botswana to host its first manganese mine and a battery-materials supply chain.
Transnet has concluded access agreements with 11 train operating companies covering coal, manganese, containers and fuel, in the first big step of its open-access rail reform.
ZESCO has commissioned the 50MW Mansa solar plant in Zambia's Luapula Province, the area's first major generation investment in over 60 years, easing load shedding and supporting local manganese mining.
African Rainbow Minerals has joined a consortium of manganese producers bidding to build and run a new 16Mtpa export terminal at Ngqura, replacing the ageing Port Elizabeth facility.
Exxaro Resources closed its acquisition of key manganese mining and marketing interests from Ntsimbintle Holdings and OM Holdings on 27 February 2026, after South Africa's Competition Tribunal approved the deal in December 2025.
Manganese ore prices stayed under pressure through 2025 and into 2026 as oversupply, driven partly by strong South African and Gabonese exports, left about six million tonnes stockpiled at Chinese ports.
