The Adansi North District Health Director, Isaac Odame Awuku, has urged stakeholders involved in the fight against malaria to put in place strategies that will help in living beyond global support by focusing on internally generated resources. Speaking at a durbar in Dompoase in the Adansi North District in the Ashanti Region to mark this […]
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AngloGold Ashanti provides scholarship for 50 tertiary students
Management team of Iduapriem with some beneficiaries AngloGold Ashanti Iduapriem Mine has awarded scholarships to 50 students from its host communities towards their tertiary education as part of efforts to provide a sustainable future for the youth through education. The beneficiaries will have their school fees, accommodation fees and all other related costs paid in […]
‘What we have is an Executocracy not a democracy’ – Sam Jonah calls for review of 1992 constitution
A statesman, Sir Sam Jonah, has reiterated the need for a review of the 1992 Constitution to completely make changes to powers granted the Executive arm of government. The Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) noted that the Constitution in its current state has “created a monstrous Executive which looms large over the […]
AngloGold Ashanti Iduapriem Mine awards scholarship to 50 tertiary students
As part of efforts to provide a sustainable future for the youth through education, AngloGold Ashanti Iduapriem Mine has awarded scholarships to 50 students from its host communities for their tertiary education. All the scholarship beneficiaries will have their school fees, accommodation fees, and all other related costs paid in full by the Mine until […]
May R499m Covid hospital be a lesson for KZN donations
The R499 million spent on the hospital that was inaccessible to communities happened during the revelations about the PPE scandal. Health worker seen at the Nasrec Field Hospital for Covid-19, 25 January 2021. Picture: Michel Bega A R499 million health facility is shutting down in Carletonville, Gauteng. The cost of the AngloGold Ashanti covid field […]
Silicosis claimants paid R320m to date in class action settlement
PHOTO: iStock The Tshiamiso Trust, set up to disburse funds, has handled 3 600 claims, and is paying out over R3 million a day. It’s been a decade since gold miners afflicted by the lung disease silicosis first launched a class action suit seeking compensation from 30 gold mining companies on the grounds that the […]
Silicosis claimants paid R320m to date in class action settlement
Claims date back to 1965, with mineworkers who carried out risk work at the relevant mines up to December 10, 2019 potentially able to claim. Image: Waldo Swiegers, Bloomberg It’s been a decade since gold miners afflicted by the lung disease silicosis first launched a class action suit seeking compensation from 30 gold mining companies […]
Anglogold Ashanti Holds 19th Annual Non-denominational Thanksgiving Service
Jpeg Anglogold Ashanti Iduapriem Mine, has held its 19 th annual non-denominational thanksgiving service to thank God for his protection and the preservation of the Mine. With songs of praise and dance, employees of the Mine and their families, host communities, and government officials expressed their gratitude to the Almighty God for the successes achieved […]
Minerals Council SA follows its members’ exodus from the Joburg CBD
The old Mineral Councils building. (Photo: Supplied) “Fathered by gold and mothered by money,” is the memorable way the historian Charles van Onselen described Johannesburg in his book New Babylon . The offspring of that union included the Chamber of Mines, which at one time employed a staff of 7,500. The Minerals Council South Africa […]
Victims In Dompim Rain Disaster Receive Support From MP, Assembly
Photocollage X Mr George Mireku Duker, the Member of Parliament (MP) of Tarkwa-Nsuaem constituency, has donated items worth thousands of cedis to people who were recently displaced by a rainstorm at Dompim. The items included 100 packets of roofing sheets, 100 mattresses, 1000 stoves, 100 bags of rice and cash sum of GH¢20,000. The Tarkwa-Nsuaem […]