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The Minister of  Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources (DMPR) today addressed a press conference regarding the  Cabinet’s approval of South Africa’s Critical Minerals and Metals Strategy, as well as the approval for the publication of the Mineral Resources Development Bill (MRDB) of 2025 for public comments.

Guest: Kagiso Menoe, Director Beneficiation Economics - Department of Minerals and Energy

Judy_Marie van Noordwyk wrote for her PhD dissertation a very interesting research titled “Confronting heritage of shame: Approaches to cultivating anti-racist praxis among younger generations of white Afrikaans speaking South Africans’.

Guest: Judy Marie van Noordwyk, Researcher - Nelson Mandela University

Bhuti Manamela - Deputy Minister of Higher Education

Velenkosi Hlabisa - Minister: Cogta

 Siphumelele Zondi - Technology expert and lecturer

Masela Nhlapho - Chief Executive Officer of the African Rail Industry Association

Guest: Neri Singh, Women’s Space Project Co-ordinator - Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa

Guest: Prof Anthoni Van Nieukerk, Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs.

Guest: Solly Molayi - Acting DDG for Population and Social Statistics - Stats SA 

South Africa’s official unemployment rate increased by one percentage point to 32.9% in the first quarter of 2025. The data shows an increase of 237 000 in the number of unemployed people, bringing the total to 8.2 million

Nonhlanhla Mtshali - Legal analyst