It is often said that every difficulty signals an opportunity. The challenges facing South Africa’s coal mining sector are not an exception to the dictum. Three difficulties have the potential to give rise to opportunities in coal mining.
Continue reading “City Press | We have an abundance of coal, why not use it?”
Within a few months President Cyril Ramaphosa has done his best to tackle investor negativity in South Africa. However, creative ways to engage the unemployed must be developed.
Continue reading “Fin24 | Good start tackling investor negativity, Mr President – but a key stakeholder was absent”
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s undertaking in his stimulus package to restore confidence in the mining sector, after former Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane nearly destroyed it, is a welcome development. South Africa’s economic fortunes have always been linked to miningWhenever mining boomed, the rest of the economy was in better shape. Continue reading “Fin24 | Mining is central to Ramaphosa’s stimulus package – so business must support him”
TWO years ago, just over 1 300 workers in KwaZulu-Natal were about to lose their jobs.The workers who faced this gloomy future were employed by the Zululand Anthracite Colliery and the companies contracted to the mine. Continue reading “Desire to grow can turn things around”
You have to be made of stone not to be touched by the piercing questions posed by the “lowly newspaperman” in his piece “We need to stop spitting on our legacy”. Continue reading “News24 | A thriving SA is not a ‘government only’ job”
In the late 19th century, when reports emerged of the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand, Paul Kruger, the president of the Transvaal in colonial South Africa, was dismayed. Continue reading “Business Day | Leaders must inject hope into mining to unlock jobs and investment waiting in the wings”
The ascendency of Emmerson Mnangagwa as the president of Zimbabwe has rekindled hope among the country’s resilient neighbours for a future anchored on human rights, democracy, economic growth and jobs. Continue reading “The Star | Mnangagwa needs a delicate balancing act to revive Zim economy”
STATE capture has hit South Africa like a ferocious hurricane. The storm – I can find no better way to characterise the magnitude – has swept away reputations of big international and local firms as well as some of their managers. Continue reading “The Star | Entrenching business ethics”
January 16, 2014. Harvard graduate Siyabulela Xuza has developed micro fuel cells that can be used to power small devices like cell phones. Continue reading “Sowetan | Innovation helps uplift the poor, ensures real radical economic transformation”
The apple in that well-known old story. Human beings living in opulence in the Garden of Eden bite this apple and are banished from heaven on earth. When we were launched into the world, we neither had a suitcase or a backpack. We had nothing. Continue reading “The history of mining starts with an apple”
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