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The new Mining Charter was destined to end up in court. On Monday, the Chamber of Mines filed papers that tore into the controversial plan. Read More

The Chamber of Mines says the Department of Mineral Resources negotiated in ‘bad faith’ by producing a third iteration of the charter with elements it had never seen. Read More

The Chamber of Mines of South Africa said it had applied for an urgent interdict to stop the implementation of the Mining Charter which it styled “… a most egregious case of regulatory overreach”. Read More

Populist rhetoric is drowning out much of the good work being done to try to restore clarity to the South African situation. Read More

Banks will simply stop financing BEE deals if industry is 'uninvestable' Read More

A well-prepared and equipped state should know that in a battle over ideas, this is the crowd where it's the bloodiest before any breakthrough. Read More

The Chamber of Mines responded with dismay to reported comments by mines minister, Mosebenzi Zwane, that South Africa’s mining industry was negotiating in bad faith by opposing the Mining Charter in the courts. Read More

Coming from a minister of mineral resources who was picked from obscurity to do the bidding of a powerful patronage network, the latest Mining Charter flatters to deceive and, like the story of post-1994 South Africa, leads only to deeper inequalities. Read More

The mining sector's poor economic performance of the past several years will worsen and be a drag on the overall growth rate Read More

Die nuuyse weergawe van die Mynbouhandves, wat wyd gekritisser word, is volgens regskeners waarskynlik nieens wettig nie. Read More