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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

South Africa’s mining industry is ringing alarm bells over the incoming carbon tax. Like so much on the policy front here, concerns centre on uncertainty. And unlike other sectors, the mining industry cannot pass on the anticipated costs to its customers. It has to take them on the chin with a direct hit to the bottom line. Read More

Various sectors of the economy, including the motor, mining and tobacco industries, voiced their concerns in parliament on Tuesday over a raft of proposed tax changes by the National Treasury. Read More