14th March 2023

“Let us re-pursue the exploration investment that catalysed South Africa’s economic growth more than a century ago as a means of helping to rebuild South Africa’s struggling economy.”

That is among the ardent messages put over by mining sector performance enhancer Dilley Naidoo, the director of business development at Rifle-Shot Performance, who spoke to Mining Weekly in a Zoom interview.

Naidoo recalled how it was investment in gold and diamond exploration more than 100 years ago that led to so much mining and non-mining growth in subsidiary industries across the value chain and a myriad of mining catalyzed services – all of them collectively creating an enormous number of jobs.

And it all began with exploration, funded from outside the country.