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There are ample grounds on which to challenge the Mining Charter, but the Chamber of Mines’ intended legal attempt at securing a declaratory order on the "once-empowered, always-empowered" principle may have been overtaken by its latest iteration, lawyers say. Read More

SA is not a dictatorship. If the chamber of mines, representing 90% of the industry by value, believes the new mining charter is unworkable and was gazetted without taking its views into account, the charter is not going to survive in its present form. Unless mineral resources minister Mosebenzi Zwane agrees to reopen negotiations, the charter will be challenged on several legal grounds. Read More

The publication of the amended Mining Charter by the Department of Mineral Resources has sent shivers down the spine of the mining industry. Speaking to Members of Parliament last Wednesday, the Chamber of Mines decried the lack of proper and earnest consultation by the Department of Mineral Resources in amending the Charter. Read More

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa tried to allay fears about radical economic transformation on Tuesday, saying it was the intensification of ANC economic policies. Read More

The controversy dogging the revised Mining Charter continued on Tuesday with Minerals Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane claiming that he had consulted his colleagues in the ANC "up to its top six officials". Read More

Rather than encouraging and stimulating the mining sector, the release of the Mining Charter has deepened divisions, writes Allan Seccombe. Read More

South Africa’s new mining charter, which is supposed to help spread the country’s mineral wealth more broadly, will offer little benefit to mining communities and was written without proper consultation, according to a group formed by Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu. Read More

The long and possibly torturous road in getting the South African government to renegotiate the third draft of the Mining Charter began in earnest today after the Chamber of Mines met the African National Congress (ANC). Read More

Under-fire Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane could be forced to water down or drop his controversial amendments to the Mining Charter because of fears more jobs will be lost in the industry. Read More

Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba may have dumped the language of radical economic transformation but he has beefed up its content. At a news conference on Thursday. Read More