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Katya Sumner-Priilaid

Tayla Cooper, LLB Student at the Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town

In Antalya, ‘No Deal’ on Climate Finance Is Not Neutral: Africa Pays the Difference writes Leezola Zongwe

South Africa should generate mineral wealth as a shared inheritance. Considering that our development needs, inequality and governance challenges investing in domestic assets could be beneficial to both current and future generations.

As the seeds for a green future take root, their economic landscaping has uncovered critical questions for South Africa’s prospects of successfully integrating an alternative, green economy.

South Africa does not have a minerals problem. It has a value problem.

Why Mine Rehabilitation Must Be Step One of South Africa’s Economic Future.

Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered safety and productivity systems is transforming modern workplaces by enhancing employee safety and productivity. What would its impact be on mining labour in South Africa.

While the South African mining industry idle forward, South African's that are supposed from its mineral wealth are trapped in systemic poverty – all while sitting atop billions of rands worth of mineral resources.

Without stricter export regulation by and increased downstream beneficiation within developing, mineral-producing countries, such as South Africa, past cycles of historically extractive relationships with the global north will repeat.

Across South Africa’s mineral industry, autonomous drilling, automated drilling haulage, and remotely operated machinery are increasingly reshaping mining operations

The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DOJCD) have just published a raft of new Bills adress illegal mining.