https://www.biznews.com/rational-perspective/us-ambassadors-public-spat-with-pretoria https://media.assettype.com/biznews/2026-06-26/ifut0o22/Untitled-design.png biznews en 2026-06-26T10:55:38.674Z Twitter diplomacy backfires: Why the US ambassador's public spat with Pretoria damages both sides Dr Joan Swart, diplomacy, USSA, foreignpolicy, DIRCO, USAfrica, twitterdiplomacy, publicdiplomacy, nonalignment, strategicautonomy, geopolitics, middlenpowers, globalrelations https://www.biznews.com/miningweb/sas-mining-abandonment https://media.assettype.com/biznews/2026-06-26/poy9b58l/Untitled-design-1.png https://media.assettype.com/biznews/2026-06-26/m09l1v9q/Screenshot-2026-06-26-at-12.16.16.png https://media.assettype.com/biznews/2026-06-26/w7dp6mfe/unnamed.jpg Production (navy bars, tonnes, left) against the gold price (gold line, US$/oz, right) — annual averages to 2025, then the line traced to its $5,589 record on 28 January 2026 and back to ~$4,000 by mid-June. For most industries a falling price explains a falling business; here output dropped through, and kept dropping past, the largest gold bull market in history. https://media.assettype.com/biznews/2026-06-26/tfa5586d/unnamed-1.jpg Indexed to 1980 (log scale). Price compounds; output decays. The shaded wedge is the divergence on which this entire paper turns. https://media.assettype.com/biznews/2026-06-26/26c9c4cr/unnamed-2.jpg Three distinct, additive categories — never nested. The sulphide-hosted resource is in addition to the surface tailings, not a subset of it. biznews en 2026-06-26T10:53:52.144Z The gold did not run out — the owners did: Duarte da Silva's devastating case against SA's mining abandonment Duarte da Silva, Dr Duarte de Silva, gold, SA gold, mining, gold price, gold mines, Witwatersrand, Harmony, tailings, mining news, gold reserves, abandoned mines, mining reform https://www.biznews.com/tech/ai-labs-eye-consultants-they-despise https://media.assettype.com/biznews/2026-06-26/5z5tfvrc/20260627WBD000.jpg biznews en 2026-06-26T10:23:39.474Z AI labs eye the consultants they despise - and SA's professional services sector should take note AI consulting boom 2026, OpenAI Anthropic revenue, AI business adoption, Silicon Valley white collar, Palantir AI competition, Accenture AI partnership, AI model monetisation, Enterprise AI strategy, AI labs profitability, Future of office work https://www.biznews.com/sa-investing/sas-enclave-economy https://media.assettype.com/biznews/2026-06-26/julf1j9t/Untitled-design.png biznews en 2026-06-26T10:22:20.817Z SA's quiet break-up: Why the enclave economy is now the most important investment thesis in the country South Africa, municipalities, bankruptcy, corruption, Ramaphosa, local govt, governance, audits, enclaves, Western Cape, state failure, DA https://www.biznews.com/global-citizen/andy-burnham-enters-no-10 https://media.assettype.com/biznews/2026-06-26/ik32npn4/459388682.jpg Andy Burnham biznews en 2026-06-26T10:06:10.988Z Andy Burnham enters No. 10: Is Britain's new PM a class warrior or Blair 2.0? 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