Impending Explosives Act to improve outdated regulations

The introduction of the Explosives Act of 2003 is expected to align South Africa’s explosives regulations with global best practices when it replaces the inadequate Explosives Act of 1956 and1972 Explosives Regulations next year or, at the...

Nationalisation won't help poor – Nzimande

Nationalisation was an attempt by the ANCYL to save black economic empowerment "elements in crisis", and would not help the poor, SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande said on Tuesday. "The call for nationalisation by elements within the ANCYL,...

Moeletsi Mbeki's medium-term view of the SA economy

Moeletsi Mbeki talks to Creamer Media's Polity on the medium-term view of the South African economy where he sees a contradiction between a projected future decline in mineral exports and increasing state debt driven by welfare obligations. Mbeki,...

BHP deal reworked, Anglo recalcitrant, says SA power utility

Eskom has reached an in principle deal with BHP Billiton that will release it from a long-term tariff agreement that triggered book value losses of billions last year, acting CEO and chairman Mpho Makwana said on Tuesday. However, attempts to...

Company Announcement: COSATU finds Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s tirade against Jacob Zuma despicable

Attached please find a press release on: The Congress of South African Trade Unions considers itself a great ally of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. We have admired his heroic stand against the brutality of the apartheid regime. We hailed his stance when...

Daily podcast – 3 February, 2009

In today's podcast: the plan to merge JCI and Randgold & Exploration fails; and Buyelwa Sonjica releases the long-awaited national Mine Safety Audit.

Audit shows ‘gaps’ in SA mine safety standards – Minister

South Africa’s Minister of Minerals and Energy, Buyelwa Sonjica, on Monday released the long-awaited national Mine Safety Audit, which was ordered by past President Thabo Mbeki, to investigate compliance with safety regulations in mines across...

Harmony reports fatality at Free State gold mine

A chairlift accident at Harmony Gold’s Tshepong operation has claimed the life of one its workers at the Free State mine, the company said on Wednesday. The accident occurred early on Tuesday, and a local inspection was completed on the same day.

Two fatal accidents claim more lives in SA mines

South Africa’s mine death toll rose further on Tuesday, with two gold mining companies reporting fatalities. Gold major AngloGold Ashanti confirmed that a miner has died in a locomotive accident at the company’s Moab Khotsong mine, near...

Political party calls for release of mine safety report

South African political party the Democratic Alliance (DA) on Tuesday submitted an application in terms of the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) to compel the presidency to release the presidential mining safety audit report to the...

Trapped Driefontein worker confirmed dead

The body of an employee trapped underground at Gold Fields' Driefontein mine has been found, the company reported on Thursday morning. Gold Fields halted all operations at the mine on Wednesday, after a seismic event in which one worker was...

Daily podcast – October 7, 2008

In today's podcast: the Gauteng Provincial Legislature is set to elect the African National Congress chairman in the province, Paul Mashatile, as its new premier, the financial crisis in developed economies threatens to slash capital investment...