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South Africa’s industrial policy has a shiny new theme but is making the same old mistakes…
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Mining companies are losing patience as licensing system delays and policy uncertainty threaten South Africa’s revival…
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The industrial development strategy has exposed overlapping departmental ambitions, different mandates and uneven consultation…
Cash-flush Omnia sails through Iran crisis
The fertiliser and chemicals group is a far cry from its over-indebted self of 2019, and is having a good war, so far…
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Sibanye-Stillwater is coining it, but can the gold and PGM producer become a less volatile profit generator?…
The Alphamin investment case
Despite conflict in the DRC, Alphamin is about to post record earnings – and hopes to explore for another 50 years…
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