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The Minerals Council South Africa has formally launched the Khumbul’ekhaya initiative, a CEO-led strategy on health and safety, developed and led by the Minerals Council CEO Zero Harm Forum. The aim of the initiative is to drive and sustain the mining industry’s pursuit of Zero Harm, with a particular emphasis on eliminating fatalities. Read More

As the mining industry tracks towards its safest year in recorded history, a new CEO-led safety strategy, in partnership with government and labour, aims to sustain the gains made in improving the health and safety of mineworkers. Read More

A total 35 miners died in the first nine months of 2019, about half the number recorded in the same period in 2018. Read More

Water scarcity poses a major risk to SA’s mining and other industries and will not only delay projects but cause substantial cost increases, global ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service has warned. Read More

The Minerals Council South Africa has called for the implementation of the Carbon Tax to be delayed until all enabling regulations, and a legislative regime providing for a carbon budget, are in place. Read More

South Africa’s Carbon Tax would cost the country’s minerals sector R5.5bn a year in its second phase of implementation, said the Minerals Council South Africa which has called again on the government to shelve the levy. Read More

The government is looking to unroll administered electricity prices for key parts of the economy, including mining, manufacturing and furnaces smelting minerals, Gwede Mantashe, mineral resources and energy minister, has said. Read More

OSHAfrica’s inaugural Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Conference – triennial conferences that will be held across the African continent – is a Pan-African, collaborative endeavour that is aimed at bringing together stakeholders from South Africa, the rest of Africa and beyond to discuss the challenges in OHS on the continent. Read More

Policy certainty is critical, ‘in particular … in the mining sector’, Minerals Council South Africa chief executive Roger Baxter said. Read More

The Minerals Council South Africa acknowledged rating agency Moody’s decision not to de-rate South Africa, but said it was critical the country’s government took steps to reform the economy, using the upcoming interim budget statement as a platform. Read More