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10 March 2010
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Miner digs in on winelands application
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Bheki Mpofu
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A major row is brewing between some Western Cape wine estate owners and African Exploration Mining & Finance Corporation (AEMFC) over the state-owned company’s plans to start mining on farms in the Stellenbosch and Cape Town municipal areas. News last week of an application by AEMFC for rights to prospect for and possibly mine tin, zinc, lead, lithium, copper, manganese and silver on the farms angered wine farmers, residents and environmental groups.
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Business Day
Monday, March 01, 2010
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Nationalising mines is not government policy — Zuma
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Wyndham Hartley
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President Jacob Zuma yesterday reassured investors that nationalisation was not on the government’s agenda. In his reply to the debate on his state of the nation speech in the National Assembly, Zuma, for the first time, addressed concerns expressed by opposition leaders on African National Congress (ANC) Youth League leader Julius Malema’s strident call for the nationalisation of mines.
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Business Day
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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World boom in mining listings expected
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Bheki Mpofu
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Global initial public offering (IPO) activity in the mining sector is expected to gather pace this year as companies seek alternative ways of funding after the devastating credit crunch a year ago, according to a report by auditing firm Ernst & Young. Ernst & Young said a healthy pipeline of IPOs was likely to come to fruition this year as fund raising in the mining sector is expected to shift to IPOs and mine finance.
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Business Day
Monday, February 15, 2010
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Gold diggers see glitter outside SA
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Jim Jones
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While global gold production is continuing to rise, South Africa’s is continuing to fall. The country has the world’s most mature gold industries and after nigh on a century and a quarter, resources are rapidly being depleted. December-quarter reports from some of the country’s principal gold companies have confirmed the trend. Take Harmony.
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Business Times
Sunday, February 14, 2010
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Mining new areas
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Matthew Hill
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Department of mineral resources deputy DG Jacinto Rocha's resignation came as a surprise this month. Matthew Hill asks him about current developments in the sector. Why have you quit? I didn't quit, I decided to leave. It's very simple - I have been in the department for 13 years. The positions that I've held have always been stressful ones. You get to a position where you say, do I still have the stamina to continue?
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Financial Mail
Friday, February 12, 2010
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The dune bug bites
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Matthew Hill
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Taking a stroll through the Namibian coastal town of Swakopmund, you'd be forgiven for thinking you're in Germany. The architecture has a distinct colonial flavour. But just south of the centre, dozens of modern houses are springing up in what appears to be the makings of a boom town. Property prices have shot up. A three-bedroom house that cost N$300 000 three years ago now sells for nearly $1m ($1 is worth R1), one local says.
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Financial Mail
Friday, February 12, 2010
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Mining charter ‘champion’ calls it quits
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Kgomotso Mathe
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The main architect of the mining charter, the deputy director-general of the Department of Mineral Resources, Jacinto Rocha, has quit his position. Rocha earned a reputation for being confrontational with the mining sector, and was instrumental in the formation of a state mining company and the Minerals and Petroleum Resources Development Act, aspects of which the industry took issue with.
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Business Day
Friday, February 05, 2010
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Lack of power top risk for mines
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Carli Lourens
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Threats of nationalisation are less of a risk to mining companies in SA, the biggest platinum, ferrochrome and manganese producer, than the lack of power in the country, says consulting company Control Risks. “We’re very sanguine about political risk in SA,” James Smither, associate director for consulting projects, said in an interview at the Mining Indaba conference in Cape Town yesterday.
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Business Day
Friday, February 05, 2010
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Who's being disingenuous?
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Dave Marrs
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Mining Minister Susan Shabangu told a media conference that the nationalisation of mines would not take place in her lifetime. The African National Congress Youth League responded that she is “disingenuous, dishonest and does not understand the ANC”. How this statement makes her “dishonest” is an open question, but the league may be right on the third count.
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Business Day
Thursday, February 04, 2010
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Output up
Financial Mail
Friday, January 22, 2010
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Black Economic Empowerment (“BEE”) was meant to have found itself on more certain ground with the gazetting of the Codes of Good Practice in 2007. After all the years of anticipating an end to the moving targets and constantly shifting playing fields, the South African business community had cause to celebrate the birth of a decade of BEE certainty as the Codes superseded the plethora of sector charters and corporate self regulation.
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