

South Africa is missing out on a once-in-a-generation opportunity in gold and other metals by driving investment away through hostile policy choices and regulatory instability.
The country’s mining industry, under Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe, is effectively chasing the world’s most important mining capital out of its borders.
This is the feedback from mining analyst at Modern Corporate Solutions, Peter Major, who explained why this is the…
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Fun South African Fact: Three different destinations make up South Africa’s capital cities. This is to represent the South African government being divided into three sections. Cape Town is the legislative capital, Pretoria is the administrative capital and Bloemfontein is the judicial capital. Interestingly, Parliament meetings take place for six months in Cape Town and six months in Pretoria.