Glencore & Glasenberg: wired to trade
Listing in Johannesburg creates additional demand for the stock, but the company is set up to succeed in places like Africa anyway.
Northam caught in NUM, AMCU cross-fire
Wage disputes threaten three-quarters of South Africa's platinum production with perhaps the strike at Northam the spark that will set national strikes into motion.
SA govt hell-bent on control of the coal
Of all the minerals the state desires, it's coal that it deems most strategic and most important, hence the changes to the MPRDA and the pressure on exporters.
Quo vadis Amplats, Griffith & Cutifani’s Anglo?
It's as if the South African government had nationalised the country's mines after all given the way Anglo American Platinum has bowed to its influence.
PAMDC delivers blow to Shabangu’s invitation
One wonders how Australians view mines minister Susan Shabangu's invitation to feast on South Africa's mineral resources. Dimly, one suspects.
Has Mathunjwa misjudged the power of money?
He rails against capitalism, but surely AMCU's Joseph Mathunjwa knows that in the end money talks, both for Amplats shareholders and for his own members?
New-found pragmatism in iron ore talks
There's three main reasons why Kumba and ArcelorMittal SA think it makes sense to hammer out an iron ore pricing agreement.
Stakes sky high as AMCU, NUM fight to survive
The gold strike underway is perhaps the most critical in decades as the NUM and AMCU fight each other for long-term dominance.
Locking out miners not entirely new strategy
Locking out workers may sound drastic, and it will raise temperatures, but steps like it have been used quite recently, and to good effect.
Weakened NUM would prefer not to strike
The National Union of Mineworkers would prefer not to strike, despite issuing an ultimatum, as calling on members will show it is now a weak organisation.