Carroll has no governance qualms about taking on Anglo Platinum top spot

There are no qualms from Anglo American CEO Cynthia Carroll about taking on the chairpersonship of Anglo Platinum, which several see as a breach of corporate governance. Carroll tells Mining Weekly that she is well aware of the King 3 corporate...

Anglo still talking to Eskom on power plant possibility – Carroll

Diversified miner Anglo American was continuing its power discussions with South Africa's State utility, Eskom, on the possibility of a power plant being built that would make use of Anglo's discard coal. Anglo Thermal Coal has large volumes of...

Acrimonious shareholder polarisation rocks Wesizwe

The Bakubung-Ba-Ratheo community – the empowerment partner and major shareholder of South African junior miner Wesizwe Platinum – is at odds with itself. Wesizwe’s Bakubung-Ba-Ratheo community shareholding was exposed as being vociferously...

Acrimonious shareholder polarisation rocks Wesizwe Platinum

The Bakubung-Ba-Ratheo community - the empowerment partner and major shareholder of South African junior miner Wesizwe Platinum - is at odds with itself.

Troubled platinum junior tightens governance, elects new chair

Troubled platinum junior Wesizwe has restructured its board, tightened its corporate governance framework and elected Dawn Mokhobo as its new chairperson. Temporarily ousted Mokhobo was one of the several directors reinstated at Wesizwe's raucous...

Sacked Wesizwe CEO scrapes back in pyrrhic victory

The sacked former CEO of junior Wesizwe Platinum has been reinstated in a pyrrhic victory that simultaneously exposed corporate governance issues and a polarised community shareholding. Michael Solomon got his job back by a slender 51,7% majority...