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More indications of quality copper in South Africa’s well-endowed Northern Cape 
By: Martin Creamer 17th December 2024 The final assay results from diamond drill holes completed to test strike and down-dip extensions of the high-grade copper mineralisation at the... →
Tshisekedi, Kagame to meet on crucial eastern DRC peace deal
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 13th December 2024 João Lourenço’s Luanda peace deal seems unlikely to resolve the crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Democratic Republic of the... →
Pan African advancing plans for another promising gold recovery project west of Joburg 
By: Martin Creamer 12th December 2024 A feasibility study on the Soweto Cluster gold recovery project, which like the highly successful Mogale Tailings Retreatment (MTR) is also on... →
Pan African’s 2024 gold activity uplifted by year-end share issue
By: Martin Creamer 9th December 2024 Midtier gold mining company Pan African Resources, which has been top of the pops as a South African gold share for the most part of this year, on... →
Premier Lesufi won't remove Gauteng Health head facing SIU investigation
27th November 2024 Gauteng Premier, Panyaza Lesufi will take no action against Gauteng Health’s Head of Department, Mr Lesiba Arnold Malotana despite the proclamation... →
Illegal mining clampdown in South Africa: treating desperate people like criminals is an injustice – legal scholar
22nd November 2024 Illegal artisanal gold mining in South Africa is in the spotlight again. Under Operation Vala Umgodi (“plug the hole”), South African authorities... →
Military rule is on the rise in Africa – nothing good came from it in the past
21st November 2024 In the last few years, there has been a spate of military coups in Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Sudan and Guinea. Military rule, long dormant in... →
The new UPRDA from an environmental perspective
20th November 2024 On 25 October 2024, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa assented to the Upstream Resources Development Bill (now the Upstream Petroleum... →