In a dark, smoke-filled mine shaft, a group of South African rescue trainees heave and gasp after crawling through a narrow steel pipe — but commands shouted by an instructor urge them onwards. Read More
These men are preparing for their test at South Africa’s Mines Rescue Services (MRS), an elite unit dedicated to saving lives in a country with the deepest mines in the world. Read More
Mining Weekly interviews Ambrose Vusumuzi Richard Mabena, Senior executive: transformation and stakeholder relations, Chamber of Mines of South Africa Read More
The government and the mining industry had reached agreement on most of the sticking points in the new draft Mining Charter and would now deal with the "nitty-gritty", Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane said on Wednesday. Read More
The mining industry’s journey has lasted more than 130 years so far. It has been mostly bleak, caught in violent storms. It has mostly moved forwards, sometimes backwards, sometimes marching in directions it should never have taken. Read More
Mining lawyer Hulme Scholes and his firm Malan Scholes Inc have failed in their attempt to have the Chamber of Mines’s legal challenge around empowerment clauses in the Mining Charter joined with their action to have the document declared invalid. Read More
Workers’ Day, May 1 or May Day, (celebrated today, May 2) provides us all with a time to reflect. To reflect not just on the more obvious roles of the 6.6 million workers in the formal sector of the South African economy and of the 450,000 in the mining sector alone, but also on the contributions that these often unsung individuals have made to our country, to our people and to our mining industry on which so much of our economy and welfare depends. Read More
After waiting more than a month, the Chamber of Mines has instructed its lawyers to approach the high court to find out about the status of its application for a declaratory order around the ownership clauses in the Mining Charter. Read More
When Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane published a "draft reviewed Mining Charter" on April 15, he said it was meant "to enhance the ease of doing business, create regulatory clarity, predictability and certainty". Read More
Investors are ringing alarm bells over the radical new draft mining charter, with confusion over why mineral resources minister Mosebenzi Zwane released the undercooked document now. Read More
Page 106 of 110
This site uses cookies to enhance your website experience. By clicking the Accept All button,
you consent to these cookies. You can learn more about cookies and how we use them by viewing
our Cookie
Policy.