Mining Indaba – The Mail & Guardian

/ 12 February 2024

Ill workers file class-action suits against coal mining giants

They allege they contracted incurable lung diseases while working on mines and want compensation for the harm caused to their health

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By Lyse Comins

Business

/ 11 February 2024

Sibanye Stillwater job cuts ‘basically done’, says Froneman

In an interview, Sibanye-Stillwater CEO Neal Froneman also refutes the view that South Africa’s biggest mining employer is overextended

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By Sarah Smit

Business

/ 11 February 2024

‘Nervous’ SA miners brace for tough time

Domestic constraints on the industry may be easing, but this will do little to counteract the effect of the commodity price slump

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By Sarah Smit

Business

/ 6 February 2024

Draft Integrated Resource Plan accepts coal reality, says Thungela chief executive

The leading coal exporter is not giving up, even as local logistics constraints and falling prices bear down on sales

By Sarah Smit

Business

/ 6 February 2024

SA scores ‘impressive’ energy revolution

The government’s efforts to liberalise the country’s energy market is nothing to be scoffed at, experts say

By Sarah Smit

Business

/ 5 February 2024

Ramaphosa confident that mining rights backlog will be cleared

Speaking during the opening ceremony of the Mining Indaba, the president emphasised that work is underway to unlock investment

By Sarah Smit

Business

/ 22 February 2023

Workers trapped at Sibanye mine earlier this week due to Eskom power failure

Terrifying example of how the poor functioning of state-owned enterprises – particularly Eskom and Transnet – have negatively impacted the mining sector

By Anathi Madubela

Special Reports

/ 17 February 2023

A new era beckons for mining finance

Both funders and clients need to be able to measure the impact of their credit activities

By Special Reports

Business

/ 10 February 2023

Mining companies aren’t buying what the SA govt is selling — yet

Companies are withholding investment – despite the commodity boom’s bounty – in the face of constraints to exports and exploration

By Sarah Smit and Anathi Madubela

Business

/ 8 February 2023

Coal bulls fight for relevance at Mining Indaba

After a year of energy market volatility lit a fire under demand for coal, lobbyists of the commodity say it is set to stick around

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By Sarah Smit

Business

/ 7 February 2023

Transnet and mine companies have ‘a brilliant working relationship’, says Portia Derby

Chief executive has recently come to blows with the Minerals Council South Africa, which called for her axing in a leaked letter

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By Sarah Smit

Business

/ 7 February 2023

Coal miners knuckle down to find solutions to Transnet failings

According to the Minerals Council, logistical constraints induced by the railway’s setbacks have cost mining industry R51 billion in exports

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By Sarah Smit

Business

/ 6 February 2023

Minerals Council ‘encouraged’ by talks with Transnet after leaked letter

Logistical constraints caused production to fall 6% in 2022, according to the mining industry employer organisation

By Sarah Smit

Opinion

/ 2 February 2023

Africa must reverse the mining resource curse

Its minerals could drive the just energy transition – if governments and investors get it right

By Busisipho Siyobi

Business

/ 23 May 2022

Explainer: Why it is difficult to mine in South Africa

The Fraser Institute’s annual survey of mining companies is not entirely wrong, South Africa is a difficult place to mine, say analysts

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By Anathi Madubela

Business

/ 12 May 2022

Energy transition from coal will cost jobs, Mantashe says

The ‘coal fundamentalist’ energy minister says more research on cleaner coal is needed

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By Anathi Madubela

Business

/ 10 May 2022

Ramaphosa: Government working to cut red tape for registration of new power projects

Even as South Africa grapples with rolling blackouts, the president says there has been progress made in electricity generation by mining and other sectors

By Anathi Madubela

Business

/ 9 May 2022

Mantashe sings praises of clean coal but warns it does not ‘fall from the sky’

The minister of mineral resources and energy has long defended South Africa’s continued use of coal

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By Anathi Madubela

Opinion

/ 6 May 2022

OPINION| Why won’t parliament and Gwede Mantashe listen to mining communities?

The mining resources parliamentary portfolio committee and the department have continued to ignore the interests and rights of communities affected by mining

By Christopher Rutledge, Nester Ndebele, Meshack Mbangula and Fatima Vally

Business

/ 4 February 2021

Mining industry calls for investment during Indaba

Despite the depressed economic environment, the mining industry contributed billions of rands to the economy last year, and can continue to do so if it focuses on environmental, social and governance issues

By Tshegofatso Mathe