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Following the first confirmed Covid-19 case in South Africa yesterday, Minerals Council South Africa has set out its planning measures to mitigate the impact of an outbreak on the country’s mining industry. The council said that the special circumstances of the mining sector could make it vulnerable to transmission of the novel coronavirus. Read More

Minerals Council South Africa yesterday launched a campaign to address sexual and gender-based violence and harassment on South Africa's mines and announced a bold target to boost the number of women in the mining industry by 150percent. Read More

The Minerals Council South Africa has released a White Paper on Women in Mining, which aims to streamline the industry’s strategies to advance women in the industry. Read More

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