The Week Gold Wouldn’t Leave the Headlines, and Why That Matters Far Beyond Gold Gold has been everywhere this week. Not just in the price charts, which seem to reset back to “normal” every few months, but in company results, dealmaking, exploration announcements, and investor conversations that stretch far beyond bullion itself. Even Crypto has […]
If You Felt the Earth Shift This Week…That Was South Africa Shifting Gears. Every now and then, the news lines up in a way that tells a deeper story, not because the events are related by design, but because the world is moving in a direction that drags us with it. This past week was […]
Can Africa Reset the Talent Equation? There’s a statistic that caught my eye recently: nearly 40% of STEM graduates across nine countries are unaware of what modern mining truly entails. And yet, the same survey tells us that 90 %+ of those engineers would consider mining if they believed the sector had a meaningful role […]
Reflections on my conversation with Dr Mteto Nyati at the Resources for Africa Johannesburg Indaba 2025 I didn’t expect a conversation about Eskom to become the most-watched video on the Johannesburg Indaba archive. Yet, it has…and that alone tells us something. In a country overflowing with discussions about the G20, geopolitics, critical minerals, junior miners, […]
When ESG first emerged in the early 2000s, it was not a political cudgel or a moral theatre piece. It started inside institutional investment as a simple, practical recognition that non-financial risks (environment, social externalities, and governance failures) ultimately end up as financial risks. Investors sought a way to value what balance sheets were not […]
Every person, every company, and every country tells itself a story. That story explains where we’ve been, who we are, and why we act the way we do. The same facts, told differently, can be a story of resilience or a story of resentment. The difference lies not in what happened, but in how we […]
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