Platform to grow SMMEs
Clive Govender at Adapt Digital Solutions. Image credit: Mining Indaba One of the challenges for Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) in the mining sector is to gain access to, and be visible [...]
Hope for Botswana
Botswana’s over-reliance on the diamond sector resulted in the country being hard hit when Covid-19 struck last year. Although Botswana hosts a range of excellent mineral deposits, diamonds have been the mainstay in a growing [...]
Mines show resilience in the time of Corona
The overall feeling amongst speakers at this year’s virtual Mining Indaba has been that the mining industry’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been exceptional, and that, in fact, the handling of the pandemic has [...]
Sierra Leone committed to partner with mining
Julius Mdaa Bio, President of Sierra Leone, Image credit: Wikipedia In his keynote address, the President of Sierra Leone, Julius Mdaa Bio, said his government was committed to exploring all opportunities to foster [...]
Ramaphosa positive about mining
Cyril Ramaphosa, president of South Africa. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Mining contributes about 8% to the South African GDP and although there are many challenges, the President of South Africa remains optimistic about [...]
Ramaphosa and Bio praise mining industry’s fight against Covid-19
Even though this year’s Mining Indaba Virtual did not draw the same number of delegates as previous occasions, the first day of the virtual event was worth getting excited about. Even though Gwede Mantashe, South [...]