Why South Africa’s 3–5% Dream Is Bullsh*t Until We Unblock The Plumbing A few months ago, in this very newsletter (Edition #7: Stop Digging and Start Building), I wrote about a possible roadmap to get South Africa to 3–5% GDP growth. I laid out what we’d need: investment, beneficiation, infrastructure, skills, and above all, political […]
My re-introduction to Mining Engineering at Wits & the Irony of AI’s Misleading Governance ‘Facts’ Last Friday morning, I had one of those truly humbling experiences. Instead of just ‘lecturing’ to the 3rd-Year Mining Engineering students at the University of the Witwatersrand , I found myself relearning some fundamental lessons. The context, as always, mattered. […]
If you attended the 2025 Resources for Africa Joburg Indaba, you’ll know the conversations were honest, sometimes brutally so. But it was also hopeful; it was truly a conversation amongst the coalition of the willing, those who still have faith in the industry’s future. We didn’t talk about mining as an abstract policy challenge or […]
Launching the ZBS Archive: 13 Years, Hundreds of Conversations, One Dream Yesterday at the Joburg Indaba, I stood on stage and introduced something I have dreamt about for years: the ZBS Archive. Yes, ZBS as in Zero Bullsh*t ! For more than a decade, together with Paula Munsie and Resources for Africa for Africa, and […]
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