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‘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.

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‘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.

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‘They're going to have to risk that base in favour of building a bigger party, as Maimane was trying to do 10 years ago, that has black voters from the middle class and lower middle class,’ says Richard Calland, political commentator, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.