🇿🇦 South Africa
Jun 14, 2026
Hersov to Mantashe: Fix mining or forfeit SA’s future
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Rob Hersov pulls no punches in this open letter to Minerals Minister Gwede Mantashe, framing South Africa's mining collapse as a policy crime rather than a geological misfortune. Gold output down 86%. GDP contribution halved. 300,000 jobs gone. Exploration spending in freefall. And the Fraser Institute now ranks us below military junta-run states as a mining destination. Hersov's core argument cuts deep: the global green energy transition runs on copper, lithium, cobalt and manganese — minerals
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