Navigating the complexities of contractor management in South Africa's mining sector

Alvarez & Marsal MD Johan Coetzee

Alvarez & Marsal MD Johan van der Westhuyzn

Mining investment is accelerating across Africa, into critical minerals and the infrastructure to move them. Getting the work done is rarely the hard part.

The harder task is governing it reliably, and that gap is where performance is increasingly won or lost.

South Africa, the continent's largest and deepest mining industry, is the clearest case. The sector directly employs close to 470,000 people, contributes 5,8% of GDP (R439 billion), and accounts for 52% of the country's total merchandise export value - contributing more than R100bn annually to the national fiscus.