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Ratings agency Moody’s decision to not downgrade South Africa to junk status, yet, affords the country a narrow window to demonstrate concrete implementation of reforms that are already under way, faster, to lift growth and return finances to a more sustainable path, the National Treasury has commented. Read More

The South African government had to make “hard choices” in order to revive the economy and stabilise its national finances, said the Minerals Council South Africa. Read More

The Minerals Council South Africa Monday said that the time had come for the government to make hard choices in order to revive the economy, following credit rating agency Moody's decision to downgrade the country's outlook from "stable" to "negative". Read More

The 2019 Annual Doctoral Conference, held on October 29 and 30, was the National Institute of Humanities and Social Science (NIHSS)’s biggest and boldest instalment yet. Read More

In the context of efforts to have more sustainable and efficient operations and to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses, Anglo American is implementing electromobility for the transport of its workers to and from work in Chile. Read More

SA’s gold industry is reeling under an increased number of attacks by heavily armed gunmen at their processing plants, looking for easy and lucrative access to the metal that is selling for more than R700,000/kg. Read More

As mining is an important part of South Africa’s struggling economy, government and the industry must collaborate on policy and work together to overcome a myriad of challenges to stimulate this key sector and drive long-term investment. Read More

The Minerals Council South Africa has formally launched the Khumbul’ekhaya initiative, a CEO-led strategy on health and safety, developed and led by the Minerals Council CEO Zero Harm Forum. The aim of the initiative is to drive and sustain the mining industry’s pursuit of Zero Harm, with a particular emphasis on eliminating fatalities. Read More

Minerals Council SA chief economist Henk Langenhoven spoke to Business Day TV about the future of coal mining in South Africa. Read More

Heavy industry and intensive energy users are counting the costs of the country’s unplanned power cuts on their business operations after Eskom implemented stage 2 load shedding this week. Read More