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South Africa has plummeted to an abysmally low level in the World Bank’s 160-country cost-of-doing-business rankings. Read More

In his keynote address today addressing the survivors of the Kinross disaster and the families of the deceased, Chamber of Mines CEO Roger Baxter paid tribute to the 177 people who died in the mine disaster, in Mpumalanga, 30 years ago. Read More

While there have been significant changes in health and safety in the mining industry since the 1986 Kinross mine tragedy, in Secunda, there is still much to be done, Chamber of Mines (CoM) president Roger Baxter said on Friday. Read More

In transforming South African society, the mining sector is continually challenged to deliver on its transformation objectives and particularly that of the empowerment of women in the industry, which is of critical importance in achieving this goal, Chamber of Mines of South Africa president Mike Teke said on Wednesday. Read More

Chamber of Mines president Mike Teke says the empowerment of women is critical to help the mining industry deliver on its transformation objectives. Read More

In transforming South African society, the mining sector is continually challenged to deliver on its transformation objectives and particularly that of the empowerment of women in the industry, which is of critical importance in achieving this goal, Chamber of Mines of South Africa president Mike Teke said on Wednesday. Read More

The mining industry, which has a past of intervening with key technologies at critical times, is currently at an important leverage point that requires disruptive change. Read More

The Department of Mineral Resources is working to find an out-of-court settlement with the Chamber of Mines on the question of the "once empowered always empowered" principle in the Mining Charter. Read More

There are few times in the history of South Africa that its economy has been at the mercy of its politics as it is now. After 9/12/2015, the day of former finance minister Nhlanhla Nene’s sacking, the economy has somewhat followed the lead of political developments. With the mining sector playing such a pivotal role in the economy, it too is somewhat at the mercy of the political uncertainty surrounding the economy. Read More

While the modernisation of South Africa’s gold and platinum mines will be a major boost to the South African economy, failure to modernise will put a huge number of jobs at risk. Read More