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Justin Brown
Justin Brown is an award-winning journalist with more than 26 years’ experience. He has led City Press’s business desk and served as deputy editor of Citywire South Africa, bringing sharp financial insight and curiosity to stories that matter. With degrees in both journalism and accounting, he has a knack for turning complex subjects into clear, compelling copy.
Policing illegal miners isn’t working. What will?
WHEN 87 illegal miners died underground at Stilfontein in 2024 – and 1,826 surfaced from abandoned shafts – the event was a symptom, not an aberration. The uncomfortable truth…
ARM singles out vanadium as long term battery metal investment target
AFRICAN Rainbow Minerals (ARM) intended to broaden its commodity reach into more battery metals such as vanadium, said the group’s CEO, Mike Schmidt. “I think it will be a…
ARM doubles capital outlay for 2022 as commodity price gains boost cash balance
AFRICAN Rainbow Minerals (ARM) has announced a 50% increase in capital expenditure for its 2022 financial year in the first of three years of heightened expenditure, largely in…
Fallout continues at Heaven-Sent after manager found “grossly negligent” of gold sales
A SENIOR manager at Heaven-Sent Gold SA, the parent company of Village Main Reef (VMR), has been found to be “grossly negligent” – a development that comes just over a week after…
Heaven-Sent’s Dong denies “gross misconduct” allegations, but leaves questions unanswered
THE CEO of Chinese-owned South African gold mining company Heaven-Sent has dismissed allegations made by whistleblowers of “gross misconduct”, nepotism, and fraud levelled…
Allegations of R257m in fraud, theft and tax evasion levelled at Heaven Sent managers
Subsequent to the publication of this article as per the article time stamp, the attorney for Johan Janse van Vuuren and Mattheus Pieterse referred to in the article has informed…
Harmony sets 2021 gold target of 1.3 m oz as looks to emerge stronger from Covid-19 crisis
HARMONY Gold estimates that it lost about 160,000 ounces of gold production worth more than R5bn due to the national lockdown. Harmony Gold CEO, Peter Steenkamp, said during a…
Judge finds evidence of criminal acts by lawyer first implicated in Kumba/ICT scandal
A HIGH court judge found evidence that a lawyer, with a history of alleged fraudulent mining deals, guilty of criminal conduct related to another Northern Cape mineral rights…
Assmang facing R89m lawsuit from Eskom after allegedly failing to make energy savings
ESKOM is suing mining company Assmang for R89m in damages. The power utility alleges that the company failed to achieve the energy savings at Assmang’s local operations required…