Ilan Solomons
Ilan Solomons is a Creamer Media Contributing Editor for Engineering News and Mining Weekly.
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Good corporate governance integral to mitigating risk – Manuel
3rd October 2017 The current lack of good corporate governance is negatively impacting on many of South Africa’s State-owned enterprises, according to former... →
Unctad report calls for ‘new New Deal’ policy to address inequalities
14th September 2017 The global economy remains unbalanced in ways that are not only exclusionary, but also destabilising, posing substantial dangers for global peace... →
Radebe calls for acceleration in achieving 2030 Agenda for SDGs, support from private sector
31st August 2017 Countries worldwide are facing many substantial challenges at this critical juncture in history. Therefore, there is a vital need to ensure... →
International project to help Africa tackle illicit financial activities
14th July 2016 Africa needs to take illicit financial flows far more seriously and has to tackle systemic corruption challenges to achieve sustainable development... →
Corruption costing Africa R50bn a year, tougher action needed – Gordhan
14th July 2016 Tax crimes, money laundering and illicit financial flows are part of a complex set of phenomena that are undermining good governance and ethical... →
Outa, Sanral continue to exchange barbs
13th April 2016 Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) stands by its position paper on the Gauteng Freeway Improvement Project (GFIP) and the substantive points... →
Sanral rubbishes Outa’s claim that GFIP was 321% overpriced, questions its motives
12th April 2016 The conclusions reached in the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse’s (Outa’s) recent position paper only served the objective of Outa, namely to... →
Minimum wage no panacea to S Africa’s economic problems – Roodt
15th March 2016 With the South African government intending to soon introduce a minimum wage across all industry sectors to ensure workers receive a “living wage”... →
Civil society needs stronger voice in natural resources sector – Machel
10th November 2015 Civil society organisations must play a greater role in forming the discussion around the natural resources sector in Africa, said Graça Machel... →
Questions raised about govt’s approach to acid mine drainage
23rd October 2015 The Department of Water and Sanitation’s (DWS’s) existing treatment programme involving pumping acid mine drainage (AMD) out of the Witwatersrand... →
Mooted free-trade area seen boosting intra-African minerals trade flows
11th September 2015 Formal negotiations are taking place among the 54 member States of the African Union (AU) to create a free-trade zone on the continent by 2017. The... →
Gauteng 'open tender' system gains momentum with banking-services contract award
4th August 2015 The Gauteng provincial government (GPG) announced on Tuesday that South African banking firm First National Bank (FNB), a division of First Rand... →
Govt, private sector working constructively to tackle acid mine drainage in Wits basin
3rd July 2015 Although acid mine drainage (AMD) in the Witwatersrand basin is the result of a legacy of environmental mismanagement of water resources by mines... →
Q4 manufacturing perceptions mixed, 2015/16 outlook bleak
17th February 2015 Subdued demand, sluggish construction and mining activity, a volatile rand exchange rate, regulatory hurdles and the effects of third-quarter 2014... →
Sustainability programmes, clarity of law in SA desperately needed
6th September 2013 The extraction of minerals from the ground and the corresponding negative environmental impact on the surface involves a complex balancing act that... →
SA’s fragmented mining law system impacting negatively on industry – director
6th September 2013 The lack of clarity in the legislative framework of South Africa’s laws governing the mining industry is causing significant uncertainty for... →
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