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A plan by South Africa’s finance minister, Tito Mboweni, to cut public spending and reduce the expenditure of wasteful state departments was met with measured optimism by the country’s mining sector which said it was a step in the right direction. Read More

To further improve the administration of the State-owned administered compensation system of occupational lung diseases, the Minerals Council South Africa has entered into a three-year partnership, dubbed the co-governance model. Read More

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the Minerals Council South Africa on Monday called on government to establish a special police unit to deal with crime in the sector. Read More

The Minerals Council South Africa has warned thousands of jobs would be lost if state electricity utility Eskom is allowed to increase tariffs by a further 15% on average. Read More

Mining industry leaders have on Friday given the new Eskom Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Andre de Ruyter the nod, saying the ideas he has presented thus far could improve business confidence. Read More

In what has been the longest economic downturn for the country since 1945, it has become necessary for government to consider alternative strategies and change various policies to allow business to grow the economy, Minerals Council South Africa CEO Roger Baxter said during a media briefing on Friday. Read More

The Minerals Council SA and Business Unity SA (Busa) have appealed to the government to use next week’s budget to cut spending, set structural economic reforms in motion, and take steps to address the electricity crisis as top priorities for the country. Read More

The Minerals Council South Africa has reiterated the significant job losses that may result from power utility Eskom being granted the additional R27.3-billion in revenue it is seeking. Read More

“Eskom’s survival cannot be based on continuing huge tariff increases,” the Minerals Council South Africa said on Friday, ahead of its testimony to the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) opposing Eskom’s request for an additional R27.3-billion in revenue. Read More

South African organisations are universal in their calling for President Cyril Ramaphosa to take decisive action around, particularly, South Africa’s constrained power supply, high employment and the state of State-owned enterprises (SOEs). Read More