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A well-prepared and equipped state should know that in a battle over ideas, this is the crowd where it's the bloodiest before any breakthrough. Read More

The Chamber of Mines responded with dismay to reported comments by mines minister, Mosebenzi Zwane, that South Africa’s mining industry was negotiating in bad faith by opposing the Mining Charter in the courts. Read More

Coming from a minister of mineral resources who was picked from obscurity to do the bidding of a powerful patronage network, the latest Mining Charter flatters to deceive and, like the story of post-1994 South Africa, leads only to deeper inequalities. Read More

The mining sector's poor economic performance of the past several years will worsen and be a drag on the overall growth rate Read More

Die nuuyse weergawe van die Mynbouhandves, wat wyd gekritisser word, is volgens regskeners waarskynlik nieens wettig nie. Read More

There are ample grounds on which to challenge the Mining Charter, but the Chamber of Mines’ intended legal attempt at securing a declaratory order on the "once-empowered, always-empowered" principle may have been overtaken by its latest iteration, lawyers say. Read More

SA is not a dictatorship. If the chamber of mines, representing 90% of the industry by value, believes the new mining charter is unworkable and was gazetted without taking its views into account, the charter is not going to survive in its present form. Unless mineral resources minister Mosebenzi Zwane agrees to reopen negotiations, the charter will be challenged on several legal grounds. Read More

The publication of the amended Mining Charter by the Department of Mineral Resources has sent shivers down the spine of the mining industry. Speaking to Members of Parliament last Wednesday, the Chamber of Mines decried the lack of proper and earnest consultation by the Department of Mineral Resources in amending the Charter. Read More

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa tried to allay fears about radical economic transformation on Tuesday, saying it was the intensification of ANC economic policies. Read More

The controversy dogging the revised Mining Charter continued on Tuesday with Minerals Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane claiming that he had consulted his colleagues in the ANC "up to its top six officials". Read More