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The Minerals Council South Africa said the 1.4% 4th quarter year-on-year decline in GDP highlights the desperate need for structural reforms and confidence boosting measures outlined in last week’s Budget speech and in the Treasury Economic Strategy paper. Read More

The Minerals Council South Africa has published a new White Paper on Women in Mining to promote gender diversity and inclusion across mining operations. Read More

South Africa's GDP is expected to record a contraction when Statistics South Africa on Tuesday morning releases growth figures for the fourth quarter of 2019. Read More

South Africa maintained its rankings in the Fraser Institute Annual Survey of Mining Companies which monitors the perceptions of investors in respect of policy as well as ease of doing business in the country’s mining sector. Read More

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