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(L) IDC CEO Ms Mmakgoshi Lekhethe, (C) DTIC Minister Paks Tau and FPI Director General Claude Ntumba Batubonke,
at yesterday’s MOU signing ceremony

Reflections from the 2026 Mining Indaba

Critical Minerals, partnerships, and transformation were the key underlying themes to our participation at the just-ended Mining Indaba. Mining’s significance to SA’s economy…

Mining Indaba 2025: A Turning Point for Africa’s Mining Future

The Mining Indaba 2025 conference, held in Cape Town from 9-12 February, marked a defining moment in the evolution of Africa’s mining industry, with a renewed focus on…

The mining industry has the potential to grow if there is more investment in exploration projects. (Michele Spatari/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Mining has life, in spite of hitches

The industry has the potential to grow if there is more investment in exploration projects

Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe.(Rodger Bosch/AFP)

No minerals for the US if aid is cut, Gwede Mantashe threatens

The mineral and petroleum resources minister also told the mining indaba that the African continent must take charge of its mineral wealth

The mining industry has the potential to grow if there is more investment in exploration projects. (Michele Spatari/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Confluence of geopolitics, energy and trade can drive change in Africa’s mining industry

The theme of the February 2025 Mining Indaba, Futureproofing Mining Today, underscores the urgency of aligning policy, investment and local development to secure sustainable growth

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde delivers a sermon during the National Prayer Service at Washington National Cathedral on January 21, 2025 in Washington, DC.  (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

What would Bishop Marianne Budde say if she was invited to the Mining Indaba?

Glencore, Anglo American, South32, BHP Billiton and Exxaro – the mining companies cited in coal class action – need to show corporate compassion for sick mine workers

Working together, governments, the private sector and regional bodies can solve the infrastructure problems hobbing the growth of the mining sector in Africa. Photo by Emmanuel Croset/AFP

Ill workers file class-action suits against coal mining giants

They allege they contracted incurable lung diseases while working on mines and want compensation for the harm caused to their health

Still mine: Neal Froneman, chief executive of Sibanye-Stillwater, says that the retrenchments due to the multinational mining company restructuring have been ‘minimal’. Photo: Robert Tshabalala/Gallo Images

Sibanye Stillwater job cuts ‘basically done’, says Froneman

In an interview, Sibanye-Stillwater CEO Neal Froneman also refutes the view that South Africa’s biggest mining employer is overextended

The mining industry has the potential to grow if there is more investment in exploration projects. (Michele Spatari/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

‘Nervous’ SA miners brace for tough time

Domestic constraints on the industry may be easing, but this will do little to counteract the effect of the commodity price slump

South Africa, the world’s seventh-largest coal producer, faces a climate challenge that has largely flown under the radar: methane emissions from coal mines.  (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Draft Integrated Resource Plan accepts coal reality, says Thungela chief executive

The leading coal exporter is not giving up, even as local logistics constraints and falling prices bear down on sales

Developing countries that are the most vulnerable to climate change are angry about a new text released at COP29 on Friday, which says developed countries must pay $250 billion a year until 2035 for climate action.(Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

SA scores ‘impressive’ energy revolution

The government’s efforts to liberalise the country’s energy market is nothing to be scoffed at, experts say

President Cyril Ramaphosa. Photo: Leon Sadiki/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Ramaphosa confident that mining rights backlog will be cleared

Speaking during the opening ceremony of the Mining Indaba, the president emphasised that work is underway to unlock investment

File photo by Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Workers trapped at Sibanye mine earlier this week due to Eskom power failure

Terrifying example of how the poor functioning of state-owned enterprises – particularly Eskom and Transnet – have negatively impacted the mining sector

Absa has been a major supporter of domestic mining projects, and, as the industry ushers in a new sustainability-focused era, a variety of innovative transactions are expected to come to fruition.

A new era beckons for mining finance

Both funders and clients need to be able to measure the impact of their credit activities

With South Africa’s low employment rate, particularly among young people, mining continues to make a valid contribution towards job creation, amid a tough economic operating climate. Photo: Supplied

Mining companies aren’t buying what the SA govt is selling — yet

Companies are withholding investment – despite the commodity boom’s bounty – in the face of constraints to exports and exploration

South Africa, the world’s seventh-largest coal producer, faces a climate challenge that has largely flown under the radar: methane emissions from coal mines.  (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Coal bulls fight for relevance at Mining Indaba

After a year of energy market volatility lit a fire under demand for coal, lobbyists of the commodity say it is set to stick around

Portia Joy Derby, chief executive officer of Transnet SOC Ltd., at the Africa CEO Forum in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Transnet and mine companies have ‘a brilliant working relationship’, says Portia Derby

Chief executive has recently come to blows with the Minerals Council South Africa, which called for her axing in a leaked letter

Transnet is falling well below its target of shifting 200 million to 220 million tonnes of freight a year, at which point — it is estimated — it will begin to make a meaningful contribution to the economy. Its current target is 170 million tonnes a year. Photo: (Karel Prinsloo/Bloomberg)

Coal miners knuckle down to find solutions to Transnet failings

According to the Minerals Council, logistical constraints induced by the railway’s setbacks have cost mining industry R51 billion in exports

In its budget review, the treasury flagged Transnet’s high debt levels, saying it needs to make faster progress on its plan to improve operations and finances

Minerals Council ‘encouraged’ by talks with Transnet after leaked letter

Logistical constraints caused production to fall 6% in 2022, according to the mining industry employer organisation

Opportunity: Zambian women break stones to sell along the road. The country’s copper could boost industrialisation. Photo: Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images

Africa must reverse the mining resource curse

Its minerals could drive the just energy transition – if governments and investors get it right