16 March 2026

Featured Guest Post

Today's post is by Nosipho Khulu a Media Practitioner and Marketing Communications Consultant for EIFSA. Today's post is part of a series titled:

Black Gold: Transformation in the South African Industry 25 Years in- the Story thus far...Part One "Oil Industry First to Fuel Transformation Post-Apartheid".  

Originally written for eifsa.org.za. EIFSA(Economic Intervention Forum of South Africa) is an NPC that focuses on intervening in matters pertaining to the inclusion of historically excluded South Africans in strategic sectors of the South African Economy.

EIFSA is one of the organisations and original complainants that contested the Section 79(1) issued by the Minister of Transport on behalf of black oil traders who had not been consulted about the renewing of the leases of oil majors at the Island View Terminal.

The featured series examines the circumstances that  inform the slow pace of transformation in the oil industry in South Africa Part One in particular gives an overview of how foreign owned oil majors came to monopolise the South African fuel industry and control the entire value chain.