{"id":7715,"date":"2012-02-07T13:47:01","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T11:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/s-africa-adopts-strategy-to-add-value-to-minerals\/"},"modified":"2012-02-07T13:47:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T11:47:01","slug":"s-africa-adopts-strategy-to-add-value-to-minerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-adopts-strategy-to-add-value-to-minerals\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa adopts strategy to add value to minerals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">CAPE TOWN<\/span> Feb 7 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa will<br \/>\nencourage companies to process raw minerals before they are<br \/>\nexported, the mines minister said on Tuesday, to increase<br \/>\nvalue-added jobs in the resource industry.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Africa&#8217;s largest economy is keen to diversify its mining<br \/>\nsector through the processing of raw minerals before export,<br \/>\nknown as beneficiation.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A beneficiation strategy has been adopted by government.<br \/>\nFive minerals which will be a priority are manganese, iron ore,<br \/>\ncoal, platinum and titanium,&#8221; Susan Shabangu told a news<br \/>\nbriefing on the sidelines of an annual mining conference.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>She said the strategy would not lead to a &#8220;complete ban on<br \/>\nexports&#8221;, but did not give futher details.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa accounts for about 80 percent of global<br \/>\nplatinum supply, so any move to add value to the precious metal<br \/>\nwill be keenly watched by markets.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Saddled with an official jobless rate of 25 percent, South<br \/>\nAfrica is desperate to create jobs.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Ed Stoddard; editing by David Dolan)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE TOWN Feb 7 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa will encourage companies to process raw minerals before they are exported, the mines minister said on Tuesday, to increase value-added jobs in the resource industry. Africa&#8217;s largest economy is keen to diversify its mining sector through the processing of raw minerals before export, known as beneficiation. &#8220;A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-7715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}