The Minerals Council always launches its annual facts and figures booklet before the Investing in African Mining Indaba in Cape Town, helping to provide a frame for conversations about SA’s mining industry.

This year the launch came just days after the national energy regulator granted Eskom a 12.7% tariff increase for this year (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2025-01-30-p1side-nersa-carves-r250bn-chunk-out-of-eskom-revenue-application/), an outcome which Minerals Council chief economist Hugo Pienaar described as “bittersweet”...

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