President Cyril Ramaphosa gave the SA mining industry little to no succour in his opening address at Africa’s premier mining conference despite a heartfelt plea from the country’s miners for urgent economic reform.

As keynote speeches go, Ramaphosa’s attempt was light on detail, presented a list of demands on mining companies operating in SA and dealt out a few platitudes, offering very little comfort that he had heard the plea...

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