Below, please find ENSafrica’s Mining Indaba ENSight, covering trends and recent developments impacting South Africa’s mining industry in the coming year; and the controversial issue of artisanal mining in South Africa:

• South Africa: legislative developments in mining in 2020 and their relation to optimising growth and investment in the digitised mining economy (Lloyd Christie)
• Calls to decriminalise artisanal mining (interview with Ntsiki-Adonisi Kgame, first aired on 702 on 2 February 2020)

Year in review:ENSafrica’s mining news highlights:

• Mine Health and Safety Act, 1996 – new guidelines and guidance notes published
• Publication of the Draft Mine Community Resettlement Guidelines, 2019 (Ntsiki Adonisi-Kgame)
• Publication of draft amendments to the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act Regulations (Lloyd Christie, Edwin Berman and Ntsiki Adonisi-Kgame)
• Navigating mine health and safety obligations (Willem le Roux, Pieter Colyn, Celeste Coles, Warren Hendricks and Tyla Foster)
• Mining green metals in a low-carbon economy (Lloyd Christie)
• Lawfulness and proportionality of actions taken by inspectors in mining industry (Willem le Roux, Pieter Colyn and Celeste Coles)
• How will the 2019 Proposed Financing Provisioning Regulations affect mining companies? (Edwin Berman, Ntsiki Adonisi-Kgame and Zinzi Lawrence)
• Mining and local communities: free, prior and informed consent in South Africa? (Carlyn Frittelli Davies)