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Standard Bank enables China market access to African exporters, reinforcing a key trade corridor
Standard Bank enables China market access to African exporters, reinforcing a key trade corridor
2nd July 2025

African businesses reinforced their commitment to global trade diversification and commercial connectivity with China, at the recently concluded 2025 China–Africa Economic and Trade Expo (CAETE). A... 


Sars records trade balance surplus of R21.7bn in May
30th June 2025 By: Darren Parker

According to the South African Revenue Service (Sars), South Africa recorded a preliminary trade balance surplus of R21.7-billion in May, which was attributable to exports of R175.7-billion and... 


AECI CEO Holger Riemensperger
AECI mulling future of historic Modderfontein site after difficult few months
30th June 2025 By: Terence Creamer

Explosives and chemicals group AECI is expecting an operational recovery at its iconic Modderfontein plant in the second half of 2025, following a difficult first few months to the year when output... 


Plastics SA appoints Samuel Kumbula as new Sustainability Project Coordinator
Plastics SA appoints Samuel Kumbula as new Sustainability Project Coordinator
30th June 2025

Plastics SA is proud to announce the appointment of Samuel Kumbula as its new Sustainability Project Coordinator. Based at the company’s Head Office in Midrand, Sam joins the team with more than... 


Japie du Plessis, Managing Director of Cementation Africa
Cementation Africa: A new name for a new era in underground mining
30th June 2025

In a defining moment for one of Africa’s most respected underground mining contractors, Murray & Roberts Cementation has officially rebranded as Cementation Africa. This new name signals the start... 


NATURAL ALLURE With the closure of its laboratory-grown diamond jewellery business – Lightbox – De Beers Group’s focus in the jewellery sector will return solely to mining, selling and marketing natural diamonds
Major doubles down on natural diamonds after synthetics closure
27th June 2025 By: Donna Slater

Following the early-May announcement of its intention to close its laboratory-grown diamond (LGD) jewellery business – Lightbox – diamond major De Beers Group’s focus in the jewellery sector will... 


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Pump solutions boost diamond mining efficiency, recovery
27th June 2025

As the diamond mining industry continues to face growing challenges such as resource depletion, rising operational costs and increasing competition from synthetic diamonds, pump supplier Schurco... 


South Africa to put in place online mining rights portal in July
26th June 2025 By: Bloomberg

South Africa plans to unveil a new online mining registry next month, a long-delayed move toward greater transparency that should help boost investor interest in funding exploration projects. The... 


Absolute Aviation to take equity stake in Century Avionics
26th June 2025 By: Rebecca Campbell

South African general and executive aviation group Absolute Aviation has announced that it has signed a memorandum of agreement (MoA) with another South African enterprise, avionics sales,... 


Aterian appoints strategic adviser for asset transactions
24th June 2025 By: Sabrina Jardim

London-listed Aterian has appointed Arron Smyth as strategic adviser for asset transactions, with immediate effect. In this newly created role, Smyth will support the Aterian management team in... 


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WFDB lauds Luanda Accord
24th June 2025 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

Association the World Federation of Diamond Bourses has expressed its full support for the Luanda Accord, the agreement reached among major diamond-producing countries and trading centres to fund... 


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Cranes for sub-Saharan Africa
20th June 2025

Crane and hoist manufacturer Condra supplies a range of equipment to authorised agents across sub-Saharan Africa, including an innovative unpack-and-go machine delivered in containers that become... 


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Vision Sugar launches leadership roadshow
20th June 2025 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

New African-led agribusiness Vision Sugar has launched a leadership roadshow to engage stakeholders in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Botswana. Vision Sugar was formed through the... 


Shipping containers used as gantry support
20th June 2025 By: Natasha Odendaal

A one-off “shipping container” crane is currently under manufacture for mine maintenance by overhead crane and hoist manufacturer Condra’s authorised agent, Lynx Supply and Services, in Tanzania.... 


Auto policy roll-out, affordable mobility top list of priorities for new AAAM CEO
20th June 2025 By: Irma Venter

The African Association of Automotive Manufacturers’ (AAAM’s) new CEO, Victoria Backhaus-Jerling, says she has four main priorities for her tenure at the industry body. Before her appointment on... 


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Jwaneng underground project, Botswana – update
20th June 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

Diamond miner Debswana is looking to international capital markets to help fund the underground project. 


Mangenese ore from the K. Hill project
K.Hill battery-grade manganese project, Botswana – update
20th June 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

Battery metal development company Giyani Metals Corporation has received a nonbinding letter of interest from the US government's export credit agency for up to $225-million in financing to support... 


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Letlhakane uranium project, Botswana
20th June 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

A study has confirmed the project’s potential to become a significant uranium operation. 


New research maps optimal locations for climate-fighting reforestation
17th June 2025

New research from the Future Ecosystems for Africa program at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, has created the most accurate maps yet of where reforestation can effectively... 


Equipment in use at the K.Hill project in Botswana
Giyani receives LoI from Exim for potential $225m financing
17th June 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Giyani Metals Corp, the developer of the K.Hill battery-grade manganese project, in Botswana, has received a nonbinding letter of interest (LoI) from the US government's export credit agency the... 


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Botswana's Debswana to approach capital markets to fund Jwaneng underground project
17th June 2025 By: Reuters

Botswana's Debswana Diamond Company is looking to international capital markets to help fund its $6-billion Jwaneng underground project, a director said on Monday, as dwindling revenues have... 


De Beers CEO Al Cook alongside other officials at WFDB's president meeting 2025, including Botswana President Duma Boko
Angola starts process to join WFDB
13th June 2025 By: Marleny Arnoldi

Angola has through its newly established Angola Diamond Exchange started the process of joining the World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB), which marks a significant milestone in the country’s... 


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Entry-level crushing plant under development by original-equipment supplier
13th June 2025 By: Trent Roebeck

Despite economic headwinds and infrastructure bottlenecks, turnkey crushing and quarrying solutions company Gold Rock Projects is expanding its product offering to the quarrying sector with the... 


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K.Hill battery-grade manganese project, Botswana – update
13th June 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

Battery metal development company Giyani Metals Corporation has completed the first shipment of high-purity manganese oxide samples. 


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Khoemacau mine, Botswana
13th June 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

A copper mine in the Ngamiland and Ghanzi districts of north-west Botswana. 


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Monte Muambe rare earths and fluorspar project, Mozambique – update
13th June 2025 By: Sheila Barradas

Altona Rare Earths is seeking a strategic investor to co-fund a prefeasibility study phase, following the identification of potentially economic gallium grades. 


Okavango Diamond Company enhances Traceability of its diamonds as it joins the Tracr platform
11th June 2025

Okavango Diamond Company (ODC), a Botswana-based rough diamond marketing company, and Debswana Diamond Company, one of the world’s leading diamond producers, today announced the onboarding of ODC’s... 


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DA says BBBEE risks derailing economic diplomacy efforts, asks Lamola to account
9th June 2025 By: Thabi Shomolekae

The Democratic Alliance (DA) wants Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Ronald Lamola to account for what it describes as the continued promotion of the African National Congress’s... 


Premium rebrands as NexMetals to reflect critical metals focus
9th June 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

Toronto-listed junior Premium Resources has changed its name to NexMetals Mining, reflecting plans to become a key supplier of copper, nickel, and cobalt from Botswana. The rebranding was approved... 


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PPC turnaround strategy delivers ahead of schedule as FY25 metrics improve
9th June 2025 By: Natasha Odendaal

JSE-listed PPC on Monday reported a step change, ahead of expectations, in key financial metrics such as its margins, profitability and cash generation for the year ended March 31, which reached... 


Haul trucks at a Debswana-owned mine
Botswana's Debswana curbs diamond production as weak demand persists
6th June 2025 By: Reuters

Botswana's Debswana Diamond Company is temporarily pausing production at some of its mines, cutting output in response to prolonged weakness in the global diamond market, it said on Friday. The... 


GALLIUM TARGET
Altona Rare Earths, in its quest to find gallium in Mozambique, has drilled about 8 000 m, completed a scoping study and published a maiden Joint Ore Reserves Committee-compliant mineral resource estimate of 13.6-million tonnes at 2.42% total rare earth oxides for its Monte Muambe project
Gallium discovery at Monte Muambe spurs investor search
6th June 2025

LSE-listed junior exploration and critical minerals company Altona Rare Earths is seeking a strategic investor to co-fund a prefeasibility study (PFS) phase, following the identification of... 


Giyani appoints new chairperson, director
5th June 2025 By: Creamer Media Reporter

TSX-V-listed Giyani Metals Corp, developer of the K.Hill battery-grade manganese project, in Botswana, has appointed Nigel Robinson as chairperson and Martin Botha to its board of directors.... 


Demand spikes for locally made Freedom Won megaTower energy storage solution
Demand spikes for locally made Freedom Won megaTower energy storage solution
2nd June 2025 By: Tracy Klückow

Since starting production early last year of its high-capacity, modular energy storage solution, the megaTower, South Africa’s largest and oldest lithium battery manufacturer Freedom Won has needed... 


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BPC, Debswana partner on renewable energy
30th May 2025 By: Tasneem Bulbulia

Power utility Botswana Power Corporation (BPC) and Debswana Diamond Company recently announced the signing of a memorandum of agreement (MoA) on renewable energy certificates (RECs). Debswana is... 


Health for the few
30th May 2025 By: Martin Zhuwakinyu

A pet peeve of mine is the woefully low levels of investment in Africa’s public healthcare sector – a reality that doesn’t seem to trouble the ruling elites, who hop on the next overseas-bound... 


DRDGOLD CEO Niël Pretorius
South Africa needs more junior miners, Junior Indaba speakers say
28th May 2025 By: Marleny Arnoldi

With South Africa’s share of global exploration expenditure in mining having dropped below 1% in recent years, the longevity of this legacy industry in the country depends on encouraging more... 


The Kamfers Dam was previously home to many flamingos
Lesser flamingos lose one of their only four African breeding sites to sewage
26th May 2025 By: Reuters

Until the last half-decade, the majestic lesser flamingo had four African breeding sites: two salt pans in Botswana and Namibia, a soda lake in Tanzania, and an artificial dam outside South... 


Unctad calls for US to spare tariffs on vulnerable countries to protect development
23rd May 2025 By: Schalk Burger

The United Nations Trade and Development (Unctad) agency has called on the US to spare vulnerable countries from high tariffs that might result in vital exports dwindling. These vulnerable... 


Africa Day: 62 years on
23rd May 2025 By: Martin Zhuwakinyu

Two days from today, Africans at home and abroad will mark the sixty-second anniversary of Africa Day, which commemorates the 1963 founding of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was... 


A generic image of an open-pit diamond mine
Addressing challenges before diversification
23rd May 2025 By: Lumkile Nkomfe

The potential for Botswana’s mining industry to diversify into minerals, such as copper, nickel, coal and other critical minerals, cannot be effectively pursued without meaningfully addressing the... 


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Event highlights future imperatives for mining in Botswana
23rd May 2025 By: Lumkile Nkomfe

Sustained efforts aimed at mineral diversification are necessary for safeguarding the future of Botswana’s mining economy, highlights Botswana Mining and Energy (BME) Conference and Expo event... 


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Scientifically engineered liners enhance beneficiation
23rd May 2025

Among other countries, minerals processing equipment manufacturer Multotec supplies scientifically engineered rubber mill and scrubber liners to mining operations in Botswana. These liners have... 


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