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‘There needs to be a national disaster declared in the City of Joburg, and it's not a climate national disaster, it's an infrastructural disaster,’ says Dr Ferrial Adam, executive director of WaterCAN.

Bonus row leaves Joburg’s water system under pressure. Mining disasters aren’t accidents, they’re warnings ignored, says expert. And what youth employment really needs from this year’s Sona.

‘I signed one of the agreements the other day, so we will see these private operators also making use of the network. We’re hoping that as a country, we can get to 250 million tonnes by 2030,’ says Transnet CEO, Michelle Phillips.

Warmer reception for Transnet at Mining Indaba: ‘No time to get complacent’ says CEO. Beyond the war rooms, what it will really take to fix SA’s broken infrastructure.

‘Our view as the Minerals Council is that government can meet us halfway by incentivising exploration. That's what's happening in other jurisdictions, such as Canada and Australia, which are key mining jurisdictions,’ says Bongani Motsa, acting chief economist at the South African Minerals Council.