Court-sanctioned trust starts accepting claims following 2018 settlement with mining companies.

With greater assets than the company had five years ago, ‘we certainly are in a much better space,’ says CEO Peter Steenkamp.

Peter Steenkamp – uitvoerende hoof, Harmony Gold

Reinstates dividend.

Profitability will have increased on the back of the high gold price, weak rand and good production.

Mia Kruger of Kruger International on markets bouncing back. Anashrin Pillay of Risk Insights unpacks the local mining ESG report and Matthew Brownell on the latest Yoco Small Business Turnover Index showing the impact of the December lockdown.

Gold mines do better than the rest of the industry with regards to environmental, social and governance issues.

And higher dividends.

Risk-off sentiment was evident in early trade, with 91 of the 141 listed companies declining, while 37 traded higher.

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Covid vaccine boosts markets.

Gold output rose 38% to 313,725 ounces compared with 226,632 ounces quarter-on-quarter.

Foreigners were net sellers of South African stocks Tuesday, disposing R695 million of local equities.

Saying it was a minority shareholder and the mine was nationalised in 1970.

Continues to benefit from external factors.