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There are two ways of looking at mining in South Africa. The first is to see it as a sunset industry plagued by rising costs, technical difficulties, and political hostility. Read More

Mining is a long-term game, but in southern Africa dramatic political changes have transformed the investment mood for the better in the space of a year. Read More

We need ethical leaders, people who stand for what is good and uphold what is good and who are also being transparent on issues,” he said. Read More

If Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane is getting a lot of sleep at the moment, he must be a man of unusually thick skin. Read More

Despite South Africa no longer being a significant producer of gold on a global scale, gold mining remained a key part of the South Africa economy by providing jobs for more than 112 000 people who earn R30 billion a year, Chamber of Mines of South Africa CEO Roger Baxter said on Monday. Read More

Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane on Monday spoke of good relations and positive meetings with global mining firms operating in South Africa‚ even as some delegates attending the 2018 Mining Indaba signalled they want him removed from the post. Read More

A third of South Africa’s largest mining companies are not considering any new investments in the sector in 2018 while one of them may even decide to pull out of the country, according to an industry survey unveiled by the Chamber of Mines on Monday. Read More

In his keynote speech delivered at the 2018 Mining Indaba this morning, Minister Mosebenzi Zwane again failed to address the ongoing regulatory uncertainty bedeviling the South African mining industry. Read More

A little over an hour before mines minister, Mosebenzi Zwane, was expected to make his keynote address at the Mining Indaba, a conference in Cape Town, Chamber of Mines (CoM) CEO, Roger Baxter, laid into the minister’s department [of Mineral Resources] for forging ahead with the controversial Mining Charter last year. Read More

The narrative of treating communities as partners rather than beneficiaries has found its way steadily into the mining sector’s approach, but the difficulty has been to put that idea into action, says Tim Hart, SRK Consulting’s corporate social and development consultant. Read More