Business

Deputy Minister of Mineral Resources Godfrey Oliphant says he is to meet mining giant De Beers regarding its eviction of artisanal miners at Northern Cape’s coastal town of Kleinzee in Namaqualand. Scores of artisanal miners were forcibly removed from the diamond mining area and have been forced to sleep in the open after their shacks were…

Kimberley – Despite it being early days of their operations having been legalised, Kimberley’s artisanal mineworkers trading through the Batho Pele Mining Primary Co-operative Limited have already raked in R1, 6 million in August and could amass same amount in turnover for the month of September. In early June this year, Deputy Minister of…

A Northern Cape business forum that has been upfront in advancing the interests of black-owned local businesses – Northern Cape Progressive Business Forum - has been launched in Kimberley on Tuesday, 10 July 2018. The launch also ushered in a new executive for the forum. Lawrence Letselebe and Kagisho Nkomo have retained their positions as…

Wine drinking has always been associated with an upper class lifestyle of the pre-meal sip, during meal nutrients enhancer and the overall post-meal merrymaker. Wine not for all of society and the expansion of the consumption base in a South Africa and Northern Cape with a growing black middle class? It is a double thumbs up for young…

Indigent households in Kimberley are being ripped off by third party vendors such as tuckshops in the selling of electricity. Despite the Sol Plaatje Municipality having granted relief through the provision of free 50kWh per month to the individual indigent household; the tuckshops selling electricity within their living spaces are setting them…

DAVIES OPTIMISTIC OF THE IMPACT THAT THE JAPAN-AFRICA PUBLIC PRIVATE ECONOMIC FORUM WILL HAVE ON FUTURE GROWTH BETWEEN AFRICA AND JAPAN The Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob Davies says that he is optimistic of the impact that the JAPAN-AFRICA Public Private Economic Forum will have on future growth between African countries and Japan.…

Kimberley - Kimberley’s illegal miners, known as zama-zamas, are now legalised.  Deputy Minister of Mineral Resources Godfrey Oliphant issued the artisanal miners with mining permits and an agreement allowing for the mining of diamond rich land covering 500 hectares of three dumbs around Kimberley. The legalising follows bloody battles between…