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UFH Vice-Chancellor and Principal Prof Sakhela Buhlungu; AngloGold Ashanti Vice-President of Sustainability & Closure Business, Kgomotso Tshaka; UFH Deputy VC of Research, Partnerships & Innovation Dr Nthabi Taole-Mjimba; UFH Deputy VC of Teaching & Learning Prof Renuka Vithal; and Senior Vice-President of Group Sustainability at AngloGold Ashanti, Ambassador Baso Sangqu.

AngloGold Ashanti Research Chair in Dairy Science & Technology launches into a bright future 

The chair is part of UFH’s larger plan to be socially and contextually relevant

Simpiwe Somdyala, CEO of Amadlelo Agri, celebrates the launch of the new Research Chair in Dairy Science & Technology at the University of Fort Hare, emphasising the importance of this partnership in advancing both local and national dairy industries.

Award-winning dairy producer welcomes new research possibilities 

Amadlelo Agri and UFH are working together to benefit local communities and the broader dairy industry

With the recent launch of the AngloGold Ashanti Research Chair in Dairy Science & Technology at the University of Fort Hare, the Eastern Cape’s potential for growth and innovation is set to expand.

Eastern Cape offers importance and potential for SA’s dairy industry

Conditions are perfect for sustainable dairy farming, but with skills development it could yield even greater benefits

A taxidermist shows a find with a fossilized imprint at the conclusion of the 2021 excavations at Bromacker between Tambach-Dietharz and Georgenthal. During this year’s excavations at the globally significant fossil site in the Thuringian Forest, researchers have secured a huge amount of finds. (Martin Wichmann/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Investing in critical minerals is the only way for a clean energy transition – report

Due to the move to net-zero carbon emissions, demand for these minerals is surging

Sipho Pityana has accused the Absa Group and Absa Bank boards of attacking his constitutional right to defend his name in court and of jeopardising the principles of good corporate governance.(Photo credit RODGER BOSCH/AFP via Getty Images)

Absa firing is an attack on corporate governance — Sipho Pityana

Absa announced that the businessman was removed from its boards after being accused of acting against the banking group’s best interest

Leon Sadiki/Foto24/Gallo/Getty

Sexual harassment accuser claimed she protected ‘overboarded’ Pityana

‘I protected Pityana’s job’

Sipho Pityana. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Pityana palaver exposes AngloGold Ashanti’s cracks

The mining company’s former board chairperson has accused his replacement of engineering a sexual harassment complaint to get him out

Silicosis is a disease that affects people in jobs where they breathe in dust that contains silica – a tiny crystal found in sand, rock or mineral ores, such as quartz.

Tshiamiso Trust makes due on silicosis payout

Beneficiaries will now be able to apply to get money from the settlement almost two years after the Johannesburg high court ruled on the matter.

Potential white elephant: The construction site of Gauteng’s emergency Covid-19 hospital in Carletonville on the West Rand. It has cost about R500-million, but equipment for patients will add to that. (Paul Botes/M&G)

Emergency hospital: Gauteng’s potential R500-million albatross

Construction of an emergency Covid-19 hospital is running months behind deadline, promising to come online only after Gauteng’s peak

Golden opportunity? AngloGold Ashanti has recently sold the Mponeng mine (pictured) to Harmony Gold.  (Chris Wessels/Anglogold Ashanti)

Mponeng sale is a lifeline

AngloGold head Kelvin Dushnisky views Harmony’s Gold purchase of Mponeng as a positive step for the future of the mine

Miners affected are eligible to get R10 000 to R500 000, depending on the nature and the severity of the disease.(Emile Hendricks)

Money from the silicosis settlement is not fixed

It will give current and ex gold mineworkers an opportunity to receive a medical examination and compensation for those suffering from silicosis

Indian demonstrators burn an effigy of Vedanta Resources boss Anil Agarwal because of the killings of at least 10 people during a protest about pollution from a copper factory. (Arun Sankar/AFP)

Activists go for weakened mining

An international forum draws strength from worldwide protests against extraction

Youth unemployment is at an all-time high. Photo: Oupa Nkosi/M&G

SA unemployment on the rise — Stats SA

Women and young people are the most affected by job scarcity in the country

Major problem: Maintaining social grants spending at the expense of reducing infrastructure investment will reduce poverty but not contribute much in terms of economic growth and employment. Photo: Madelene Cronjé

SA’s ‘welfare state’ is in trouble

The government has to make tough decisions about social grants in the face of poor economic performance

Silicosis is a disease that affects people in jobs where they breathe in dust that contains silica – a tiny crystal found in sand, rock or mineral ores, such as quartz.

Miners can register for silicosis, TB claims online

Potential claimants and their dependents are encouraged to also contact the call centre

Mthobeli Gangatha is a litigant in the class action brought against 29 mining companies. He worked on a gold mine for 16 years.

Suffering litigants rejoice over mining houses’ R5-billion silicosis settlement

Mthobeli Gangatha has learnt to accept that nothing, not even part of the R5-billion settlement announced by lawyers, will ever reverse his condition

(Anesh Debiky/Gallo Images)

Formal rules are needed for class action lawsuits

A number of cases brought before the courts have started to build a fram​ework to guide class actions. But there is still a gap

The central executive committee of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union has unanimously passed a vote of no confidence in the union’s suspended deputy president Nkosikho Joni.
(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Mining industry on alert over violence on the platinum belt

The recent outbreak of violence on the platinum belt has the industry fearing a repeat of Marikana

Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown.

Numsa scores from NUM battles

While union officials in the Klerksdorp area fight for control, its majority is being whittled away

EFF leader Julius Malema. (David Harrison/M&G)

It’s NUM vs NUM as leadership scuffle hits branches

Mines in the North West have become contested ground for National Union of Mineworkers.