Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe has called for the marketing of South African natural diamonds across ...

South Africa's cabinet has approved participation in an international effort to boost the marketing of real diamonds, responding to the increasing appeal of lab-grown gems and funded by a 1% levy on ...

The exploitation of South Africa’s large mineral endowment explains the relative development of its economy; at the same time ...

After attending a high-level Ministerial roundtable in Luanda, Angola, in June, Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister ...

Africa’s rich natural resources present a golden opportunity for economic transformation. However, the over-reliance on raw material exports, weak value addition, and governance challenges have ...

There are areas in South Africa known as sacred sites because of their cultural, spiritual, or historical value, often linked to ancestral beings, religion and traditional beliefs.

With the theme, “Africa, Environment, globalization”, the springboard of the event is the apparent absence of real solidarity in handling the economic doldrums of developing countries by the ...

Natural gas production in South Africa was one of the major themes at last week’s Africa Gas Forum. And then there’s the fact that the 20 trillion cubic feet estimate might be off--WAY off.

Melissa Hansen abc, Mine Islar ab, Torsten Krause ab, The Politics of Natural Resource Enclosure in South Africa and Ecuador, Conservation & Society, Vol. 13, No. 3 (2015), pp. 287-298 ...

Laws and regulations South Africa is one of 17 mega-diverse countries identified by the United Nations. The country is rich in natural resources, especially plant diversity.