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South Africa mines minister, Gwede Mantashe, declared the negotiating team discussing changes to the country’s Mining Charter was “80% there”, and would be concluded with the process of shaping an improved regulatory framework for the sector by end-May. Read More

Talks on a new Mining Charter are about 80% completed and the new document guiding transformation of the South African mining sector will be ready and gazetted in May, giving the industry greater policy confidence, says Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe. Read More

THe first report back from the stakeholders negotiating the Mining Charter is due on April 10 so it’s probably worth setting down some preliminary observations from the first round of negotiations over the last few weeks. Read More

In South Africa’s crazy news cycle we tend to move on from important issues way too quickly. Read More

African Rainbow Minerals and Anglo Platinum bosses held urgent talks with unions and concerned stakeholders on Tuesday in an attempt to establish the motive behind the killing of six Modikwa platinum mine workers in Driekop near Burgersfort, Limpopo. Read More

The Chamber of Mines has enlisted the services of the Deloitte Tip-Offs Anonymous, an anonymous reporting channel for unethical behaviour in the workplace. Read More

Last weekend’s talks on the Mining Charter, initiated by Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe, were quite robust. Read More

Last weekend’s talks on the Mining Charter, initiated by Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe, were quite robust. That should be no surprise to anyone. Read More

The South African mining industry has in recent times been experiencing serious safety challenges. Vodacom has announced its intention to join forces with the Mining Precinct@Carlow Road and mining sector in general to make use of its technology in order to help solve some of the critical challenges identified by the mining sector. Read More

The mining industry on the African continent has a bad history when it comes to exploitation of workers, and the mineral wealth of countries and South Africa is no exception. Read More