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Probably Maortians...:aliena:
Were you aware of the Sovereign risk associated with PEN's South African Karoo project?
"A SENIOR South African government adviser says investor worries about nationalisation of the mining industry are justified.
Sandile Noxgina, a former director-general of mines and now adviser to Mines Minister Susan Shabangu, said it would take almost a year for the African National Congress government to decide on nationalisation.
Some have played down talk of nationalisation, which is supported by the hardline ANC Youth League, but Mr Noxgina disagrees.
The concern "is justified", he said yesterday at the Africa Downunder mining conference in Perth."
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"Malema has no direct policy-making power but is one of the ANC's most popular politicians and has won admiration among millions of poor South Africans and alarmed investors with his calls to nationalise the mines.
Some in South Africa fear nationalisation could bankrupt the country and destroy its credibility among investors. But the idea resonates with the country's poor black majority who see it as a way to spread the wealth from a sector that grew powerful along with white-minority apartheid rule"
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I thought that whole saga is over now, but I haven't been keeping up with SA news as much.