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Dr Duarte da Silva: The richest beggar on earth

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Dr Duarte da Silva: The richest beggar on earth
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South Africa holds 83% of the world’s platinum-group metal reserves and mines 81% of its new rhodium, yet it sets the price of none of them. That leaves miners, workers and the Treasury carrying the full cost of every price collapse, from thousands of lost jobs to royalties that fell 37% in 2024. In the second part of his platinum paper, Dr Duarte da Silva argues that the country should stop acting as a price-taker. He proposes eight lawful tools, among them a Johannesburg price, a sovereign met

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