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SA’s largest gold miner raises R20bn to drive copper gains (opens the original)
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Harmony Gold has secured a multicurrency funding package worth more than R20bn to back its copper-focused growth strategy and refinance its acquisition of MAC Copper. The package includes loan facilities of $500m, A$500m and R7bn, which will be used to refinance the MAC Copper acquisition bridge facility, as well as existing dollar and rand syndicated facilities entered into in 2022, the company said on Tuesday. Harmony’s $1bn acquisition of MAC Copper last year gave it control and full ownershi
Grim six months triggers week-long safety reset at Implats Rustenburg (opens the original)
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Impala Platinum (Implats) has put mining on hold at its Rustenberg operations for eight days as a series of fatal accidents raised safety concerns. The company said that the move came amid persistent concerns about the severity of injuries resulting from underground accidents at the Rustenburg operations, prompting a “safety reset” across the complex. Though there were no fatalities in the six months to end-December 2025, the “subsequent increase in serious safety-related incidents at Impala Rus
As Trump’s tariffs hit, the message is clear: SA must find new markets (opens the original)
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South Africa’s economic growth trajectory is expected to escape the latest round of US tariffs relatively unscathed, with businesses having weathered a far harsher 30% tariff shock last year. But the announcement last week of a sweeping 12.5% tariff shows that the US administration is committed to its protectionist policy agenda, escalating calls for South African traders to diversify away from America. “While US-SA economic relations obviously remain significant for both countries, it is plain
End of an era as Dis-Chem co-founder Ivan Saltzman bows out (opens the original)
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Ivan Saltzman, who founded Dis-Chem with his wife, Lynette, in 1978, has stepped down from the board after 48 years at the company, marking the end of the family’s involvement in its management. On Friday, Dis-Chem announced Saltzman had resigned from his position as nonexecutive director, having stepped down as executive director last month. The news came a week after Saul Saltzman, son of Ivan and Lynette, announced his resignation from nonexecutive directorship. In a statement, Dis-Chem said
Patrice Motsepe’s ARM bets about R15bn on a big platinum shortage (opens the original)
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Patrice Motsepe’s African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) plans to spend R15.2bn over the next seven years to upgrade its platinum group metal (PGM) operations, as it bets on a PGM supply deficit. The diversified miner does not expect the growth of battery electric vehicles, which do not use platinum, to hurt overall demand in the long term, as a “structural decline” in the world’s biggest PGM suppliers continues to tighten the market. More than 70% of global PGM supply, used primarily in non-electric ca
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