Welcome to Creamer Media’s Resources Watch, a weekly video round-up of the events and people making and shaping the news in the mining industry.
This week:
Metals sector urged to seize South Africa’s beckoning Steel Master Plan opportunity
Menar says Sipho Nkosi’s red tape cutting role crucial to encourage investment
And, Equivalent of a Koeberg arising in solar projects
The Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa has urged all the sector’s employer bodies to roll up their sleeves on May 19 and 20 and get their teeth into the Steel Master Plan, which is seen to have promising reindustrialisation elements.
Seifsa CEO Lucio Trentini:
The appointment of mining stalwart Sipho Nkosi to cut red tape is crucial to encourage new investment and expand existing investment in South Africa.
Menar MD Vuslat Bayoglu:
The equivalent of a Koeberg power station is arising in the form of new largely mine-linked private-sector solar power photovoltaic projects across Southern Africa.
AmaranthCX director Paul Miller:
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