Mining companies with higher environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings outperformed the broader market during the peak of the Covid-19 crisis...
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in South Africa fell by almost half in 2020, in line with the world-wide downturn caused by the global Covid-19 pandemic...
Wessel Badenhorst 8 Jun 2021
Thungela Resources started trading on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) today, marking the completion of its demerger and separation by Anglo American's South African thermal coal assets...
Despite the tragic deaths, suffering and sadness that it has caused, the pandemic could go down in history as the event that rescued humanity. It has created a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reset our lives and societies onto a sustainable path...
Ian Goldin 2 Jun 2021
Like the mining companies they service, mine suppliers and technology providers should be looking beyond the customer demands of today to remain relevant to the investors of tomorrow...
Joe Keenan 11 May 2021
The Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) is collaborating with companies in the energy sector to carry out a feasibility study to create a hydrogen valley...
The notoriously cyclical nature of mining, particularly the low commodity prices and weak equity markets of recent years, have made it difficult for junior and exploratory mining companies to secure financing...
Jason Wilkinson, Wandisile Mandlana, Adéle de Jager & Ivan Vorster 1 Apr 2021
More than half of African companies are delaying their energy transition targets, leaving them in danger of missing the Paris Agreement target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050...
The company launched its first Enterprise and Supplier Development (ESD) Hub in Rustenburg on 1 March 2021...
Recent moves to incentivise renewable energy development in designated areas are welcome, but a new requirement has been introduced which may prove onerous and cause significant delays...
Kirsty Kilner & Gillian Niven 9 Mar 2021
The collaboration between the South African government and the mining industry led to the sector's rapid recovery from the lockdown restrictions of last year...
Africa has the potential to harvest 1,000 times more than the continent's projected demands for electricity in 2040 from renewable sources...
Nicci Botha 2 Mar 2021
If the continent dealt with its access to electricity challenge with the same gusto it is applying to fighting the Covid-19 pandemic, the problem would already be solved...
Nicci Botha 1 Mar 2021
The debate around procuring new nuclear capacity for South Africa's unreliable power grid carries on...
