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Workers’ Day, May 1 or May Day, (celebrated today, May 2) provides us all with a time to reflect. To reflect not just on the more obvious roles of the 6.6 million workers in the formal sector of the South African economy and of the 450,000 in the mining sector alone, but also on the contributions that these often unsung individuals have made to our country, to our people and to our mining industry on which so much of our economy and welfare depends. Read More

After waiting more than a month, the Chamber of Mines has instructed its lawyers to approach the high court to find out about the status of its application for a declaratory order around the ownership clauses in the Mining Charter. Read More

When Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane published a "draft reviewed Mining Charter" on April 15, he said it was meant "to enhance the ease of doing business, create regulatory clarity, predictability and certainty". Read More

Investors are ringing alarm bells over the radical new draft mining charter, with confusion over why mineral resources minister Mosebenzi Zwane released the undercooked document now. Read More

Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane has begun constructive bilateral engagement with the Chamber of Mines - led by its President‚ Mike Teke - on pertinent issues in the sector‚ including the recently gazetted draft Mining Charter‚ the parties said in a joint statement. Read More

The Mining Charter has been an invaluable mechanism to pave the way to a true transformation of the industry and has made a deep contribution to the ongoing deracialisation of SA’s economy and society. We are the first to acknowledge that there remains a long way to go before we can say we have completed that journey. But we need to be aware of where we have come from and what we have achieved.  Read More

Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane on Tuesday defended unexpected changes to the Mining Charter, saying the draft was released to provoke robust engagement between his department and the industry. Read More

South Africa's government will talk with mining firms to overcome differences in a new proposed Mining Charter that requires the companies to keep black ownership at 26%, the mining minister said on Tuesday. Read More

Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane will hold a two-day meeting with mining-industry executives to debate a draft plan to compel mines to ensure that black people hold at least 26% of their shares at all times. Read More

The modernisation of South Africa’s mines and the extension of their lives are at the heart of a new government-backed local manufacturing body that will have access to a State-owned developmental cluster location, where joint development initiatives are envisaged. Read More