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South Africa has regained competitiveness in mining because of partnerships between the public and private sector to tackle regulatory issues and structural bottlenecks, according to billionaire Patrice Motsepe.<\/p>\n
Policy uncertainty together with vandalism, power outages and logistics bottlenecks have weighed on South Africa\u2019s mining industry for more than a decade. President Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s government partnered with business groups including B4SA to address the nation\u2019s sub-standard transport and energy infrastructure and operations.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve done very well over the last few years in ensuring\u201d South Africa becomes a destination for investments, Motsepe said at the sidelines of a conference in Kenya\u2019s capital, Nairobi. \u201cPart of what should take place in those partnerships is for the CEOs of the mining industry to keep telling the government what are the changes, the improvements and the areas that will ensure that South Africa is a globally competitive destination.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The end of rotational blackouts and improvement in transport logistics have put South Africa in a better place to capitalise on higher commodity prices. Johannesburg\u2019s industrial metals and mining gauge has climbed 30% this year, compared with just a 2.4% increase in the benchmark FTSE\/JSE All Share Index.<\/p>\n
Still, South Africa\u2019s investment in mineral exploration dropped for a seventh straight year, despite the government\u2019s ambitions to arrest the decline.<\/p>\n
Exploration spending in South Africa fell 5.3% to R738 million ($44.8 million) in 2025, according to data published in March by the government\u2019s statistics agency using 2015 constant prices. Investment in prospecting has slumped more than 85% in the past three decades, the data show.<\/p>\n
Motsepe, South Africa\u2019s wealthiest Black person who made his fortune in gold mining in the 1990s and 2000s, said his company plans to invest several billion dollars in the country\u2019s mining sector, without providing any timeline.<\/p>\n
His African Rainbow Minerals has interests in coal, iron ore, and platinum-group metals. The firm also owns 10% of Harmony Gold a top producer of the precious metal in his home nation.<\/p>\n
Motsepe is the South African president\u2019s brother-in-law.<\/p>\n
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