Transnet insists balance sheet is tough enough as economy falters
TRANSNET, the state-owned logistics and freight moving company, insisted it was under no pressure despite a sovereign rating downgrade earlier this year, saying it...
JP Morgan sounds the alarm on Tanzania’s proposed mining laws
The draft legislation published by the Tanzanian government recommending changes to the legal framework governing the country’s natural resources sector contains a number of...
CoM interdicts “egregious” Mining Charter in scathing assessment
THE Chamber of Mines of South Africa said it had applied for an urgent interdict to stop the implementation of the Mining Charter which...
Anglo expected to resume dividend payments at half-year
RATINGS agency, Moody's, recent comment that South Africa's Mining Charter redraft is likely to be credit negative for companies such as Anglo American -...
Charter roadshow off to chaotic start as Zwane flees imbizo
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...
Will BHP and others pay for ditching progressive dividends?
ONE of the observations regarding the investor activism being encountered by BHP – the mining firm that reaffirmed its Australian roots by dropping the...
Zwane to “take the Charter to the people” as miners absorb...
SOUTH African mines minister, Mosebenzi Zwane, is to embark on provincial roadshows in the next two weeks in order to "take the Charter...
CoM embarks on long road to Mining Charter negotiating table
THE long and possibly torturous road in getting the South African government to renegotiate the third draft of the Mining Charter began in earnest...
SA mining in crisis as CoM takes Govt’s Mining Charter to...
SOUTH Africa's mining sector as represented by the Chamber of Mines (CoM) is to turn to the courts in order to contest elements of...
‘Once empowered, always empowered’ not recognised as 30% target set by...
THE redrafted mining charter will not recognise past empowerment deals and has given the mining sector a year to comply with a new ownership...