SA faces challenges in entrenching safety culture – DuPont

US–based training solutions company DuPont, which has a specific focus on industry safety both in the engineering and the mining sectors, reports that South Africa faces challenges when it comes to entrenching a culture of safety.

South African mining industry sprinting towards positive reform

The pace of the legislative reform being implemented for the South African mining sector has quickened into a dash for the finish line.

North American exposition was highly successful – mining stakeholders

The South African mining industry tripartite, between the Chamber of Mines, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the South African Mining Development Association (Samda), reports that it has concluded a successful first leg of an...

NUM president blames production bonuses 
for miners’ ‘disregard for safety procedures’

National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) president Senzeni Zokwana lhas questioned whether South African mines meet the minimum safety requirements to prevent an incident similar to the one in Chile, where 33 miners were trapped underground, after a...

Nationalisation could be a plan to bail out failing companies

National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) president Senzeni Zokwana on Wednesday questioned the sincerity of the nationalisation debate, saying it might be seen as an attempt to bail-out struggling companies. "There have been rumours that the...

Minister Shabangu chooses stick over carrot 
in Mining Charter review

South Africa’s new revised Mining Charter dispenses with the open hand of consensus and replaces it with the clenched fist of the law.

Noncompliance with the provisions of the revised Mining Charter will render mining companies in breach of...

Revised Mining Charter may add to uncertainty – Leon

Although the revised Mining Charter attempts to address a number of its predecessor's shortcomings, in some respects it may paradoxically add to regulatory uncertainty within the South African mining industry, regulatory lawyer Peter Leon said...

Resources Watch

This week: the historic joint declaration aims to grow and transform South African mining; Australia's Resources Generation seeks to raise R4,5-billion for its Waterberg coal mine; and golden treasure arises beneath the skirt of the old Agnes mine.

Historic joint declaration to grow and transform mining

The South African government, three labour unions, big mining business and small mining business have clinched an historic 13-commitment accord to grow and transform South Africa’s still-well-endowed mining industry. While it has become a South...

Mining declaration ‘very important step in right direction' – Leon

The joint mining declaration over which Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu presided on Wednesday was "a very important step in the right direction", regulatory lawyer Peter Leon told Mining Weekly Online in a video interview. Leon, who has...

Govt, business, labour set South African mining on new growth path

At a high-powered Mining Summit in the Drakensberg, the South African government locked in a show of unprecedented unity with business and labour to set the country's underperforming but still well-endowed mining industry on a new growth path,...

SA mining sector expected to shed more jobs

South African mineworkers would face even harsher times over in the coming months as job losses were expected to accelerate in the next quarter, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi warned on...