Johannesburg’s JSE once bustled with mining companies over 600 listings in 1987, mining powerhouses making up half of them. Fast forward to today: only 35 mining firms remain, seven with no South African operations, and the sector has officially slipped into recession, with two straight quarters of shrinking output. This plunge is about more than … Continue reading Coal to Chrome: How SA’s Once-Mighty Mining Industry Slipped into Recession