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The hostile and uncertain investment environment for mining has seen its contribution to employment and the broader economy shrink – a concern that will doubtless be at the heart of the imminent engagement between mining and Cyril Ramaphosa’s administration. Read More

The South African mining industry has welcomed the national budget as a tough but necessary one that reinforces President Cyril Ramaphosa’s drive to stabilize the economy and get crucial sectors of the economy back on track. Read More

South African finance minister, Malusi Gigaba, said he welcomed a decision by the Chamber of Mines on February 18 to postpone a High Court hearing into the 2017 redraft of the Mining Charter in favour of negotiations with the government. Read More

In a development that surely represents the death knell of mines minister, Mosebenzi Zwane’s political career, South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has agreed with the Chamber of Mines to postpone a High Court application to review the Mining Charter, the June 2017 document that had Zwane as its vanguard. Read More

Cape Town - The day before it was supposed to start, an application by the Chamber of Mines for a judicial review and setting aside of the reviewed Mining Charter has been postponed. Read More

The Presidency issued a statement saying it has been in discussion with the Chamber of Mines to resolve the impasse over the implementation of the charter.  Read More

Chamber agrees to give negotiations a chance after talks with the Presidency and an undertaking to rework the controversial third iteration of the Mining Charter. Read More

As the court process between the South African Chamber of Mines and Minister of Mineral Resources Mosebenzi Zwane is set to be heard by Deputy Judge Sulette Potterill next week, trade union Solidarity says it has filed court papers to have the latest mining charter set aside and abolished. Read More

South Africa's bleak employment outlook underscores the pressing need for the country to revisit its policy on mining with a view to generating investment-led growth in one of the few sectors of the economy with the potential to absorb large numbers of unskilled labour. Read More

The Chamber of Mines confirms that it communicated via a letter to the ANC president shortly after his election… The Chamber has received acknowledgement of the receipt of the letter but no meeting has been set,” said a chamber of mines spokesperson. Read More