Road Trip rolls through SA’s historic gold belt

Road Trip rolls through SA’s historic gold belt

WhyAfrica kicks off its inaugural Southern Africa Overland Road trip in a brand-new Toyota Landcruiser apply named Gondwana by our Gold and vehicle sponsor Remote Exploration Service this morning.  

Our first stop is a crushing and aggregate operation close to the mining town of Stilfontein on the gold belt of the Witwatersrand, west of Johannesburg in South Africa.

Although production in the most prolific gold mining region the world has ever known, has been dwindling of late, enough gold is still produced here to make it significant on the world stage.

Nevertheless, interesting secondary and tertiary business activities have sprung up and feeds off the once thriving mining industry.

These operations continue to provide opportunities for those left behind when lucrative deep underground mines close shop.

Remining old dumps and crushing waste rock for aggregate material to put in place crucial infrastructure, not only provides jobs in a country beset by unemployment but plays an important role in environmental rehabilitation and can be extremely lucrative for those entrepreneurs that grab the opportunity.

Continue following WhyAfrica, we take our readers places they’ve never been. WhyAfrica Southern Africa Overland Road Trip will take us through five countries in 44 days. During this time, we will drive more than 9700km on the good roads, the bad roads, dirt roads and tarred roads, to visit close to 30 projects in the mining, agriculture, energy, infrastructure, tourism, conservation, and development sectors.

Image credit: Leon Louw for WhyAfrica

This trip is made possible by:

• Our premier gold and vehicle sponsor Remote Exploration Services(RES) who does spectacular work as a service company to exploration outfits across the continent
• Our premium sponsor BME who, as an explosive and blasting expert, has extensive experience in dealing with unique African challenges
• Our silver sponsors Minrom Consulting,Rham Equipment, law firm NSDV, and mining company Osino Resources.
• WhyAfrica’s partners (who have been there from the very start) Releaseby Scatec, SRK Consulting, Kal Tire, Menar Holdings, NSDV, and Cable Technology

Image credit: Leon Louw for WhyAfrica

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