Minerals Council South Africa warns that the current form of the contentious bill is not encouraging for the mining sector's ...

THERE’S a long-standing view around town that the South African Government gaslights its mining industry with horror ...

Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe gazetted an erratum to the Mineral Resources Development Bill, initially published for public comment on May 20. The correction removes the ...

Activists and experts have accused Mantashe of bowing to pressure from powerful mining companies. David van Wyk, a respected researcher in the field, questioned the minister’s intentions. “Prospecting ...

Zondo, whose tenure at the Constitutional Court ended last year, deposed an affidavit at the Johannesburg High Court on 16 ...

Mantashe’s changes to mining legislation have provoked backlash for favouring the industry over public interest.

Department of Minerals and Petroleum Resources (DMPR) Minister Gwede Mantashe has opened a criminal case against a social ...

Mantashe’s U-turn on BEE for Prospecting Rights and listed companies is too little, too late.The Bill deepens legal uncertainty, threatens investment ...

Mining is now officially in recession after two quarters of declining output. The minister’s answer to this is more ...

Mining activist Zakhele Zuma says he will lay a perjury charge against Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe for allegedly giving false testimony in a police complaint over R40 million owed to ...

Exploration is an extremely risky business, and BEE ownership rules on the activity would be a major obstacle to the deployment of capital on this front.

Minister of Minerals and Petroleum Resources, Gwede Mantashe, has opened criminal charges against Zakhele Zuma over claims that the minister stole R40 million.