MINING INDABA 2026 Loaded for Bear: Coal waste is the new frontier in the critical minerals scramble 4 min 1 By Ed Stoddard
MINING INDABA 2026 AI, automation and robots will have a seismic impact on the mining industry 4 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
MINING INDABA 2026 Sibanye, Valterrra and JM team up to find new applications — and markets — for PGMs 3 min 1 By Ed Stoddard
MINING INDABA 2026 From speculation to science as Wits research centre turns Africa’s mineral wealth into measurable opportunity 6 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
BUSINESS ANALYSIS Loaded for Bear: SA wheat farming may be on the brink of collapse — what can be done? 5 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
WETLAND WARNING The Blesbokspruit wetland: a national ecological treasure under siege 3 min 2 By Ed Stoddard
TOXIC TAILINGS Exposed: The sordid tale of a dubious mine tailings operation that threatens critical wetlands in Gauteng 8 min 0 By Ed Stoddard and Felix Dlangamandla
STORM IMPACT Severe weather affects Sasol’s Mozambique operations but gas supplies remain uninterrupted 2 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
MEGAFAUNAL AFTERMATH Part 3: Ecological Aftershock: The longue duree and the animals in our history 8 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
BUSINESS REFLECTION Loaded for Bear: After deluge cometh drought - El Niño will likely return in 2026 and SA needs to prepare 4 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
ORIGINS OF THE ANTHROPOCENE Part 2: Human-wildlife conflict, the ‘overkill’ hypothesis and megafaunal extinctions 8 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
FREIGHT REVIVAL Richards Bay Coal Terminal exports rise over 10% in 2025 in latest sign of Transnet reboot 3 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
PRICE SURGE Gold surges past $5,000 as strengthening rand boosts rate cut hopes 2 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
INFLATION EASES SA consumer inflation averages 3.2% in 2025, well inside Sarb’s new target range 3 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
FROSTY UPGRADE IMF raises SA’s 2026 GDP growth forecast as Team SA takes sales pitch to Davos 2 min 1 By Ed Stoddard
ROBOT RUSH Rise of the Machines: 2025 ‘genesis’ year for humanoid robot production with 16,000 installed 3 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
BUSINESS REFLECTION Loaded for Bear: Retail investors to bear the brunt if the gold and equities rallies burst like a bubble 4 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
FACTORY SWOON Carnage: Absa PMI falls in December to lowest level since pandemic 3 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
KERNEL CRUNCH SA maize futures at four-year lows, good news for inflation, mixed outcomes for farmers 3 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
JSE, RAND 2025 Rand, JSE and SA bonds made solid gains in 2025 in defiance of moribund economy 3 min 0 By Ed Stoddard
