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Worker safety: Findings by the Karonga district commissioner reveal that drinking water at Kayelekera mine
does not meet acceptable standards. Photo: Supplied

Uranium mine audit flags toxic water and sanitation failures

Lotus Resources’ Kayelekera mine faces scrutiny after an audit revealed water safety and sanitation failures affecting workers

Improving efficiency, reducing waste and emissions, strengthening supply-chain transparency and shifting finance away from harmful activities can all reduce risk while protecting ecosystems.  (File Photo)

Every business depends on nature and most are helping destroy it, landmark report warns

Biodiversity loss has become a systemic risk to the global economy, as businesses continue to profit from nature while failing to pay for the damage

Liquidity challenges: Mantengu’s Langpan Mine has seen production decline. Photo: Supplied

Mantengu workers face salary delays

Financial disclosures and production shortfalls raise questions about the miner’s stability and cash flow

Fighting back: As the Tanzanian case moved into pre-trial stages Patrice Motsepe-linked entities initiated
separate proceedings in South Africa. Photo: Wikipedia

Motsepe firms in $195m mining row

Parallel legal proceedings have unfolded in Tanzania and SA, illustrating the complexity of cross-border litigation in Africa’s minerals sector

Heart of stone: Dumisani Mbebe plays Don Bhengu in season two of the TV series Savage Beauty. Photo: Courtesy of Netflix

Savage Beauty back with a vengeance

The second season of the series offers an expanded cast and more corporate dark deeds

Should you study corporate governance?

Wits Plus offers the chartered programme in convenient short courses

File photo by Marco Longari/AFP

R36-billion: The economic cost of gender-based violence

A new report delves into the view that the private sector is key to combatting violence against women and recommends that companies should include their efforts in corporate…

Hundreds of climate activists from groups including Extinction Rebellion and Insulate Britain march from the Royal Courts of Justice to Lambeth Bridge in solidarity with the nine Insulate Britain campaigners jailed three days previously by a High Court judge on 20th November 2021 in London, United Kingdom. The activists, who claim that the jailed activists are political prisoners, later blocked Lambeth Bridge for around 5 hours in breach of an injunction and Vauxhall Cross for around 3 hours. The Metropolitan Police made over 100 arrests. (photo by Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images)

After COP26, business leaders are warming up to sustainable practices

Chief executives have begun to recognise the importance of sustainability, but we urgently need climate science-aligned policies that provide a new framework for business

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

Good governance requires not only the application of the law, but also its ethics and principles

Principles such as accountability, responsibility, transparency and fairness should form the foundation of the manner in which we all conduct ourselves

In the case of Asher Bohbot his move from chief executive of EOH to chairperson was questionable given the civil claims against him. (Photo by Gallo Images / Business Day / Martin Rhodes)

Governance conundrum: Corporates disregard the King report

Disregard for the King Report is evident in the move of Brian Joffe from CEO of Long4Life to the position of board chairman of the firm

Former Eskom chief executive, André de Ruyter. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Eskom and treasury fight needs urgent attention

Early signs of instability are creeping into struggling power utility as forces fighting for space in the parastatal take battle to the very top at Megawatt Park

Moshopyadi Hannah Hell, Ubuntu.Lab facilitator South Africa. (Photo: Moshopyadi Heil)

Reputation Custodianship through Ubuntu.Lab Hub at Reputation House

Restoring the public’s faith in corporate and government leaders

Former Steinhoff CEO, Markus Jooste. File photo

Holes in Steinhoff’s management led to its corporate scandal

The Steinhoff case highlights weaknesses in the governance structure the company had chosen to operate under.

KPMG South Africa stands accused of advancing state capture and has come under immense pressure.

What the KPMG saga says about shareholder activism

KPMG South Africa sets a potential example of how shareholders can attack the soft underbelly of private sector state capture enablers.

​Workplace change is a social imperative

The persistence of racism in companies and resentment about white control can only be addressed by positive moves to empower workers.

Poor conviction rate results in 50% rise in white-collar crime

People who commit lesser crimes serve time, but bigwigs can afford to buy time outside jail with prolonged court battles.

Zimbabwe’s parastatals ‘rotten to the core’

Ignorance, political interference, corruption and mismanagement cripple state-owned entities.

Reggie Dlamini is senior associate at Spoor & Fisher.

Know the governance rules

You can’t play the game if you don’t know the rules.

Siyabonga Gama guilty, says Transnet

Siyabonga Gama has been found guilty of a serious breach of governance requirements relating to procurement contracts which he approved at Transnet.

Taking CSR into account

For the first time, the King report will include corporate social responsibility, writes Ryan Hoffmann.