African governments need to act together on energy transition or risk...
AS the global market continues to pivot toward a low-carbon economy, African governments can no longer afford to ignore the energy transition. The shifting...
7 things SA’s Govt can do to encourage mineral exploration and...
ONCE the greatest mining country on earth, South Africa now attracts less than 1% of annual global mineral exploration spend. Ongoing mineral exploration is...
South Africa’s energy storage opportunity lies in the value chain
IN a year when African economies are battling to stay on course due to a global pandemic, it has become urgent for South Africa...
Gender diversity is about hard-wiring the mining industry
THE South African mining industry matters as it touches millions of lives directly and indirectly. Despite its current structural decline, it does have the...
Mining faces an historic reckoning; the time is now for leaders...
IT is not easy to be a mining executive these days, faced with a global virus pandemic, an economy in recession, a climate crisis...
ANC will be a battleground over policy and prosecutions in 2021
A TOUGH political and economic year lies ahead. Perhaps in the forefront of the questions is how the balance of power between the state...
Trajectory of ‘progressive’ Charter changes will keep foreign investors wary of...
DESPITE the increasingly strident efforts of Minister Mantashe and his officials to have us believe "regulatory certainty" is ubiquitous, the mining regulation landscape in South...
Is the SA Govt’s proposed new mining cadastre already a metaphoric...
THE answer to the question posed by the headline to this article is, sadly, almost certainly: 'Yes'. Not only a metaphoric cadaver, but one...
Pandemics are not ‘black swan’ events, the SA mining sector must...
THE COVID-19 pandemic has been a challenge beyond anything that has struck us in living memory. But is COVID-19 truly a black swan event...
We want to see women comprise more than 40% of SA’s...
This is Nolitha Fakude's prepared address given at the launch of Minerals Council's National Day of Women in Mining.
MINING plays a critical role in...