About us

who we are

NCUDELCOR 29E SA (Pty) Ltd is a copper manufacturing company focused on establishing a world-class copper smelter and refinery in Upington, Northern Cape, South Africa. Our vision is to become a premier supplier of high-value copper products while making a lasting positive impact on our employees, customers, partners, and surrounding communities.

Our mission is to set the benchmark for quality and service in the copper manufacturing sector while upholding the highest standards of customer satisfaction, ethical conduct, cost-effective operations, and employment practices.

We believe that business success is closely linked to the wellbeing of the communities in which we operate. For this reason, we actively support community development, infrastructure improvement, education initiatives, and skills development programmes that promote sustainable economic growth.

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Our Vision

Through the extensive achievements of our highly committed team, we strive to remain the premier choice for copper products. We will continue to work towards making a difference in the lives and future of our employees and our communities while advancing the success of our customers. Our vision includes expanding our company into new markets by becoming a low-cost, high-value provider of within our industry. 

Our vision includes establishing our copper smelting plant in Upington in the Northern Cape, South Africa, for national and international demand and supply. NCUDELCOR 29E SA also believes that an effective growth policy must also be taken into account for the fulfilment of basic needs of the masses,  especially of those living in rural areas.

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Our Values

Every action we take is guided by our core values:

  • Integrity – We uphold the highest ethical standards in all our operations.
  • Respect – We foster an inclusive environment where collaboration and teamwork thrive.
  • Commitment – We take responsibility for achieving shared goals and the highest ethical standards in all our operations.
  • Teamwork – We prioritise collective success over individual goals.
  • Excellence – We maintain the highest standards in everything we do.
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Our mission

To end the export of Africa's raw wealth by building mine-to-energy-to metal complexes that convert South African and Sub-Saharan Africa region minerals, sun, and skills into finished green products for the world - creating jobs, forex, and energy security at home.

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Our Core Principles

  • Beneficate Here: Every ton of ore mined must create 6 industrial jobs in South Africa and in the Sub-Saharan Africa region here.
  • Own the Power: Our smelter shall not depend on Eskom. We build our own sun-power grid.
  • Zero Export Weakness: No raw concentrate leaves our gates. Only finished cathode, wire, or products.
  • Community First: Certain equity to the community and the municipality.
  • Africa-Only: Our copper, our power, our jobs - for African industrialization first.
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About NCUDELCOR 29E SA (Pty) Ltd

NCUDELCOR 29E SA (Pty) Ltd is a private holding company incorporated under the Companies Act. It's not an operating company. It exists to own, control, and finance a portfolio of strategic subsidiaries in the green metals and energy value chain.

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Core Purpose:

To develop, finance, own, and operate Africa's first vertical integrated "green copper" complex in Upington:

  • Mine-to-Market Copper: Smelt and refine copper concentrate into LME-grade cathode for export.
  • Captive Green Power: Own 650 MW PV Solar + 1.2GWh BESS to supply 24/7 firm power to the Copper Smelter and Refinery Plant and Eskom.
  • Just Energy Transition: Create 3,500 jobs in Dawid Kruiper Local Municipality and ZF Mgcawu District Municipality while displacing 2.1Mt CO2e/year.
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Why Upington:

Every action we take is guided by our core values:

  • Grid: Upington MTS is one of 3 nodes in SA with >1GW evacuation capacity + land.
  • Solar Resource: 2, 400 kWh/m2/year - best in the world.
  • Logistics: Transnet main line to Saldanaha + N14 and N10 to Namibia. Copper in, cathode out.
  • Policy: ZF Mgcawu SEZ + Northern Cape Green Hydrogen Strategy. Maximum DTIC incentives.
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Group Structure - "Hub & Spoke" Model

  • Holding Company being NCUDELCOR 29E SA (Pty) Ltd. Board of 7 members - 1 founder, 0 Independent, 1 BEE, Hatch Africa, Baeletsi DMV Consultancy, Wetility post-FC. Staff of over 33 personnel - CEO, CFO, BD, Legal, ESG, Tax, Treasury, Company Secretary, COO, etc.
  • Operating Subsidiaries - All to be registered in Upington:
  • NCUDELCOR 29E SA Copper Smelter and Refinery which is held by NCUDELCOR 29E SA 100%
  • NTSOANATSATSI PV Solar Farm Power Generator 70%
  • NCUDELCOR 29E SA Logistics 100%
  • Molise Semi-Fabricated Copper Production Plant
  • International Subsidiaries - owned 100% by NCUDELCOR 29E SA a Holding Company.
  • Governance & Control at NCUDELCOR 29E SA Holding company Level:
  • Executive Chairman
  • Founder
  • Group CEO
  • Group CFO
  • Group Business Developer: Upington-based. Projects to FC.
  • Independent NED - Energy - EX-NERSA. Regulatory.
Wetility gets Board Observer until FC, then full NED seat for 30% in Solar SPV.
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Board Committees

  • Audit & Risk MA reports here.
  • Investment Committee: Approves any spending
  • Social & Ethics: Community Trust, local content, ESG, etc.
  • Remco: CEO/ BD/KPIs
About NTSOANATSATSI PV Solar Farm Power Generator (Pty) Ltd - Upington

About NTSOANATSATSI solar farm

About NTSOANATSATSI solar farm

Our Mission

To power South Africa's first green copper smelter and deliver 350 MW of firm, affordable power to Eskom every evening - proving solar can keep lights on, industry running, and carbon out.

About NTSOANATSATSI solar farm

Our Vision

The battery that ended loadshedding. The solar farm that built a Copper Smelter and Refinery Plant. The project that showed the world how Africa does Just Transition.

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Operational Mandate

  • Copper Smelter and Refinery First: 300 MW, 24/7, 99.5% availability to NCUDELCOR 29E SA Copper Smelter and Refinery Plant. No curtailment, ever.
  • Eskom Second: 390 MW firm, 16h00 - 22h00 daily. Cheaper than diesel, cleaner than coal.
  • Grid Strength: Grid-forming inverters + black-start capacity. We support the grid, we don't crash it.
  • Carbon Negative: <0.05 tCO2/ MWh. Every electron makes copper CBAM-compliant for export.
  • Upington Proud: 1 300 construction jobs, 40% local content, R800m/ yr to Dawid Kruiper Local Municipality.

We put our eye on the following downstream companies to come next to their high-purity copper in Upington, which is their raw material, and their specific names not disclosed now:

  • Cable Manufacturers
  • EV Manufacturers & Suppliers
  • Electronic & Semiconductor Manufacturers
  • Telecommunication Manufacturers
  • General Copper End-Products

Statement from NCUDELCOR 29E SA (Pty) Ltd Founder and Executive Chairman: "NCUDELCOR 29E SA doesn't ship out copper, Upington ships solutions made from Upington copper smelter, powered by Upington sun."