THE directors of Tshipi é Ntle Manganese Mining, a new mine that is under development near Hotazel in the Northern Cape, are confident the project will secure scarce railway capacity for production that will start in the first half of next year.

Kathu, Northern Cape – One- time Robben Island prisoner Saki Macozoma is at the forefront of South Africa’s newest mine in an impoverished part of the Northern Cape province and Mining Weeky was in the sands of the Kalahari with him, as was mining luminary Brian Gilbertson , who has joined him in the manganese […]

South African manganese mining entered a new era today with the ceremonial sod turning of a majority black-owned managnese mine. The Tshipi Borwa mine near Mamatwan in the Northern Cape is one of the first mines to bring to fruition the government’s policy of distributing mining rights to a broader ownership for the benefit all […]

The Ngwao Ya Tshona Traditional Dancers from the tiny Northern Cape village of Batlharoshave been selected to perform at the official sod-turning for the new Tshipi é Ntle manganese mine. The sod turning will take place on September 14, 2011.