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Afrimat’s move into mining pays off big time

May 21, 2022 Ciaran Ryan 0

Seven years after diversifying into iron ore mining, Afrimat rides the commodity wave. From Moneyweb. Though listed on the JSE as a construction company, Afrimat’s […]

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10-bagger Transaction Capital casts its eye abroad after 10 years on JSE

May 21, 2022 Ciaran Ryan 0

After delivering another set of blistering financials. From Moneyweb. Mobility and digital services group Transaction Capital is a 10-bagger over eight years, depending on how […]

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‘Boring’ gold vs heart-stopping Bitcoin

May 20, 2022 Ciaran Ryan 0

Sometimes boring is better. From Moneyweb. It was fascinating to listen to gold miners debate the merits of gold versus Bitcoin as a store of […]

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Mines count the human cost of Covid and work-related fatalities

May 20, 2022 Ciaran Ryan 0

Covid claims 749 miners’ lives; work-related fatalities increase, but better news in controlling diseases such as TB. From Moneyweb. Covid claimed the lives of some […]

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TerraUSD’s stablecoin meltdown holds the crypto market hostage

May 14, 2022 Ciaran Ryan 0

There’s red everywhere this week as TerraUSD’s peg to the US dollar snapped, dragging other cryptos with it. From Moneyweb. The big crypto news of […]

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Open up rail network to private operators or miss commodity boom

May 12, 2022 Ciaran Ryan 0

70% of it is underutilised. That must change, and fast. From Moneyweb. Miners were in good spirits at the Mining Indaba in Cape Town this […]

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Mining Indaba: For SA it’s about the bottlenecks strangling growth

May 12, 2022 Ciaran Ryan 0

Lack of exploration, a dysfunctional licensing system, Eskom and lack of transport capacity. From Moneyweb. The Investing in African Mining Indaba got underway in Cape […]

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Mining Indaba: South African lawmakers get schooled by the masters

May 12, 2022 Ciaran Ryan 0

Resource nationalism, once an anti-mining rallying cry across the continent, has now given way to a kinder, more accommodative approach by governments from Zambia to […]

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Oligarchs trade insults over crypto

May 6, 2022 Ciaran Ryan 0

Billionaire Peter Thiel named Warren Buffett, Larry Fink and Jamie Dimon as ‘enemies’ of Bitcoin. Buffet fired back with insults of his own. From Moneyweb. […]

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CompCom wants more small businesses on banks/insurers’ supplier panels

May 5, 2022 Ciaran Ryan 0

‘Practice note’ aimed at promoting greater competition among suppliers to banks and insurers should benefit more smaller companies. From Moneyweb. A Practice Note recently published by the […]

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