Photo by: Dylan Slater
The organising team of last week’s outstanding Junior Indaba, in Johannesburg, are (from left) Resources for Africa Investment Conferences CEO Paula Munsie, Resources for Africa Investment Conferences marketing manager Kevin Mnone, Junior Indaba and Joburg Indaba chairperson and mining luminary Bernard Swanepoel, THINKspiration CEO Tracey Swanepoel, Resources for Africa Investment Conferences conference manager Ros Hinchcliffe and (kneeling) Resources for Africa Investment Conferences head of productions Stuart Alderson-Smith. Announced at the conference by government were the creation of a junior miners fund to provide exploration investment capital for black-owned emerging miners, an investment of R20-billion in the Council for Geoscience to boost exploration and the legitimising of Kimberley’s former illegal diamond mining zama-zamas.