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/ 22 January 2009
Winner — Best Corporate Employee Involvement Programme Award: FirstRand.
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/ 22 January 2009
Winner — Sports Development category: Transnet Foundation.
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/ 6 November 2008
South Africa has positioned itself as a hub to service the oil and gas industry in Africa.
South Africa’s 2006 total mineral sales of R195,6-billion represented a more than 34% increase over the previous year’s figure of R145-billion and illustrates the industry’s more effective exploitation of the global commodities boom, heard the Chamber of Mines of South Africa’s annual general meeting in November last year.
Mining has been the mainstay of African economic development from an agrarian to an industry-based continent. Rod Pickering, president of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, said in his New Year’s message: "The end of 2007 marks the close of one of the most exciting years in the history of the mining industry."
The Mineral and Petroleum Resources Royalty Bill initiated intense debate at its inception a few years ago. However, at the Mining Indaba in Cape Town recently Minister of Minerals and Energy Buyelwa Sonjica said significant progress has been made to date in consultation with stakeholders.
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/ 19 December 2007
The Vuna Awards, which took place this week, provide an incentive for municipalities, rewarding those that give their communities excellent services and governance. In keeping with its name (Vuna means “harvest together” in the Nguni family of languages), “the awards seek to encourage service excellence and to celebrate municipalities, which are sowing the seeds of genuine development."
There has been much interest recently in mine-contaminated water, with media reports highlighting the issue and concern mounting that environmental and health risks are not being managed effectively. Africa’s variable and unreliable water resources have been a source of conflict for centuries.