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South Africa is the only African country in China’s top 30 agricultural suppliers, ranked 28 in 2023.

How the Expropriation Act can revitalise South Africa’s economy

This legislation could help unlock the potential of underused assets and abandoned properties, including mines, inner-city buildings and land

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26 January 2022. Tsediso Raleholi shows a photograph of her 10-year old daughter Mapula. Mapula drowned in a mine dam on Durban Deep over the Christmas holidays. (James Puttick)

‘My child would still be alive’ if that dam at the mine wasn’t there

The drowning of 10-year-old Mapula Raleholi is the latest in a series at mining sites in Gauteng

Costly cleanup: Mine waste water is poisoning rivers. (Paul Botes/M&G)

Sisulu: Third of audited mines violate conditions of water use licence

The water and sanitation department has not revoked or suspended water use, ‘but this remains an option’

Families of those lost in the Lily Mine collapse want the search for their loved ones to restart. (Felix Dlangamandla)

Four years on, Lily Mine families want recovery of the bodies of three missing workers to restart

The ground swallowed 90 people, but three died in the tragedy and their bodies were not found

Costly cleanup: Mine waste water is poisoning rivers. (Paul Botes/M&G)

R49bn to rehabilitate 6 000 mines

The state is fixing mines deserted before a 2002 Act, but another law could force owners to pay up

Should you believe the hype about the “foreign threat” to healthcare? (GCIS)

D-Day looms for Lily and Barbrook mines

The mines face provisional liquidation and 900 jobs will be lost – unless the IDC grants a loan

In a desperate attempt to raise cash

Zim government militarises mines

Security officials in Zimbabwe are monitoring the entire mining process in a desperate bid to raise funds.

Families of the dead said they did not agree to the exhumations and now want the remains returned so that they can be reburied

Zim: Govt favouritism irks mines

Platinum mines linked to Robert Mugabe’s government are being excused from funding a $3-billion refinery plant.

Polishing up Zimbabwe’s diamond industry

The Zimbabwe government is tightening controls in the diamond mining sector in a quest to extract more revenue from mining companies.

Top Zim official caught up in land dispute

A functionary’s murky claim to a neighbour’s farm has jeopardised a gold mine on the property.

Where legal and moral liability converge

Sustainability makes commercial good sense for mines and the people who work for them.

Zim: No softening of law for mines

President Robert Mugabe reiterated a hardline stance in response to rumours of the law’s softening for mining firms in the country.

Zim: Mines lose their shine, worries govt

There is growing concern that Zimbabwe’s diamond production has dipped.

Bad idea: A parliamentary committee says Mines and Mining Development Minister Obert Mpofu’s new regulations would discourage investment.

Zimbabwe minister’s mine fees ‘illegal’

The Parliamentary Legal Committee is set to reverse mining fee regulations enacted by Minister Obert Mpofu that it says are unconstitutional.

Southern Africa cracks down on TB in mines

SA’s gold mines are estimated to have the highest number of new TB cases in the world, making the disease a leading export to neighbouring countries.

Anglo American’s CEO Cynthia Carroll blames apartheid legacy for turmoil at South African mines.

Carroll: Mine violence caused by legacy of apartheid

Violence witnessed in the mining sector this year stems from "underlying social problems that remain", says Anglo American’s CEO Cynthia Carroll.

Comet Village residents

Abandoned miners left in limbo

Neither the state nor the private sector will take responsibility for the destitute residents of Comet Village in the East Rand.

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Amcu had called the protected strike after the company on  handed 3 300 employees dismissal notices. (Reuters)

ANC mining ideas not viable

It is unlikely that many of the ANC’s policy proposals on state intervention in the mining sector will come to fruition, a business leader has said.