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UFH Vice-Chancellor and Principal Prof Sakhela Buhlungu; AngloGold Ashanti Vice-President of Sustainability & Closure Business, Kgomotso Tshaka; UFH Deputy VC of Research, Partnerships & Innovation Dr Nthabi Taole-Mjimba; UFH Deputy VC of Teaching & Learning Prof Renuka Vithal; and Senior Vice-President of Group Sustainability at AngloGold Ashanti, Ambassador Baso Sangqu.
AMADLELO AGRI

AngloGold Ashanti Research Chair in Dairy Science & Technology launches into a bright future 

The chair is part of UFH’s larger plan to be socially and contextually relevant

  • Elna Schütz
7 min read
Simpiwe Somdyala, CEO of Amadlelo Agri, celebrates the launch of the new Research Chair in Dairy Science & Technology at the University of Fort Hare, emphasising the importance of this partnership in advancing both local and national dairy industries.
AMADLELO

Award-winning dairy producer welcomes new research possibilities 

Amadlelo Agri and UFH are working together to benefit local communities and the broader dairy industry

  • Elna Schütz
7 min read
With the recent launch of the AngloGold Ashanti Research Chair in Dairy Science & Technology at the University of Fort Hare, the Eastern Cape’s potential for growth and innovation is set to expand.
AMADLELO AGRI

Eastern Cape offers importance and potential for SA’s dairy industry

Conditions are perfect for sustainable dairy farming, but with skills development it could yield even greater benefits

  • Elna Schütz
6 min read
A taxidermist shows a find with a fossilized imprint at the conclusion of the 2021 excavations at Bromacker between Tambach-Dietharz and Georgenthal. During this year’s excavations at the globally significant fossil site in the Thuringian Forest, researchers have secured a huge amount of finds. (Martin Wichmann/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images)
ANDRIES ROSSOUW

Investing in critical minerals is the only way for a clean energy transition – report

Due to the move to net-zero carbon emissions, demand for these minerals is surging

  • Anathi Madubela
4 min read
Sipho Pityana has accused the Absa Group and Absa Bank boards of attacking his constitutional right to defend his name in court and of jeopardising the principles of good corporate governance.(Photo credit RODGER BOSCH/AFP via Getty Images)
ABSA

Absa firing is an attack on corporate governance — Sipho Pityana

Absa announced that the businessman was removed from its boards after being accused of acting against the banking group’s best interest

  • Sarah Smit
3 min read
Leon Sadiki/Foto24/Gallo/Getty
ABSA

Sexual harassment accuser claimed she protected ‘overboarded’ Pityana

‘I protected Pityana’s job’

  • Sarah Smit
5 min read
Sipho Pityana. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
ABSA

Pityana palaver exposes AngloGold Ashanti’s cracks

The mining company’s former board chairperson has accused his replacement of engineering a sexual harassment complaint to get him out

  • Sarah Smit
7 min read
Silicosis is a disease that affects people in jobs where they breathe in dust that contains silica – a tiny crystal found in sand, rock or mineral ores, such as quartz.
ABRAHAMS KIEWITZ

Tshiamiso Trust makes due on silicosis payout

Beneficiaries will now be able to apply to get money from the settlement almost two years after the Johannesburg high court ruled on the matter.

  • Tshegofatso Mathe
3 min read
Potential white elephant: The construction site of Gauteng’s emergency Covid-19 hospital in Carletonville on the West Rand. It has cost about R500-million, but equipment for patients will add to that. (Paul Botes/M&G)
ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI

Emergency hospital: Gauteng’s potential R500-million albatross

Construction of an emergency Covid-19 hospital is running months behind deadline, promising to come online only after Gauteng’s peak

  • Sabelo Skiti
  • Pontsho Pilane
5 min read
Golden opportunity? AngloGold Ashanti has recently sold the Mponeng mine (pictured) to Harmony Gold. (Chris Wessels/Anglogold Ashanti)
ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI

Mponeng sale is a lifeline

AngloGold head Kelvin Dushnisky views Harmony’s Gold purchase of Mponeng as a positive step for the future of the mine

  • Thando Maeko
5 min read
Wasted effort: The government’s reliance on the petrol and diesel vehicle export market now looks like a disastrous industrial policy, according to three economists. (Kevin Sutherland/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
AGRICULTURE

The fable of SA’s special economic zones

The country is being pushed to develop more SEZs. But is this a viable strategy, given unemployment and ‘deglobalisation’?

  • Lisa Thompson
  • Patrick Bond
  • Pamela Tsolekile de Wet
7 min read
Miners affected are eligible to get R10 000 to R500 000, depending on the nature and the severity of the disease.(Emile Hendricks)
ANGLO AMERICAN

Money from the silicosis settlement is not fixed

It will give current and ex gold mineworkers an opportunity to receive a medical examination and compensation for those suffering from silicosis

  • Tshegofatso Mathe
2 min read
Indian demonstrators burn an effigy of Vedanta Resources boss Anil Agarwal because of the killings of at least 10 people during a protest about pollution from a copper factory. (Arun Sankar/AFP)
ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI

Activists go for weakened mining

An international forum draws strength from worldwide protests against extraction

  • Patrick Bond
6 min read
Youth unemployment is at an all-time high. Photo: Oupa Nkosi/M&G
ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI

SA unemployment on the rise — Stats SA

Women and young people are the most affected by job scarcity in the country

  • Sarah Smit
3 min read
Major problem: Maintaining social grants spending at the expense of reducing infrastructure investment will reduce poverty but not contribute much in terms of economic growth and employment. Photo: Madelene Cronjé
ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI

SA’s ‘welfare state’ is in trouble

The government has to make tough decisions about social grants in the face of poor economic performance

  • Sabelo Mtantato
  • Sabelo Mtantato Guest Author
6 min read