The Council for Geoscience (CGS) has today announced that its data management portal has gone live. The announcement comes after its CEO, Mr. Mosa Mabuza participated in the Annual Junior Indaba conference, which was held virtually. The CGS has been…
In the published amended regulations of the National Disaster Management Act of 2002 on 16 April 2020, Section 11K (3) stipulates that “the monitoring and impact of seismicity through the Council for Geoscience must be intensified with immediate effect”. The…
The Council for Geoscience (CGS) mourns the passing of Professor Maarten de Wit, an internationally acclaimed geoscientist who worked over several decades in numerous fields, including the evolution of the early Earth, Earth system processes and science transdisciplinarity. His contribution…
The Council for Geoscience (CGS) has observed with concern the accusatory statements made by the Boere Krisis Aksie on 20 February 2020 via social media. We accordingly place on record that the statement was issued without consultation with the management…
The Council for Geoscience (CGS) can confirm that an earth tremor occurred roughly 72 km southwest of Durban on 31 October 2019 at 13:19. The earth tremor registered a preliminary 3.7 on the local magnitude scale as recorded by the…
On Thursday, 26 September 2019, the Auditor-General awarded the CGS the much-coveted PFMA Clean Audit award for the financial year 2018/2019. This prestigious award marks the culmination of 16 years of consecutive unqualified audits by the CGS. The Auditor-General’s Business…
The CGS is deeply saddened by the tragic passing of our Deputy Minister of Mineral Resources, Ms. Bavelile Hlongwa, last Friday, 13 September 2019. Ms. Bavelile Hlongwa was an aspiring, young and energetic leader who was passionate about the plight…
On 28 May 2019, the President of the Republic of South Africa, the Honourable Cyril Ramaphosa, announced the merger between the Departments of Mineral Resources and of Energy (now known as the DMRE). Subsequently, and in line with Parliamentary requirements,…
The CGS has donated geological maps and their explanations to the University of the Witwatersrand for the value of R141 000. Professor Gillian Drennan (Dean of Faculty) and Professor Roger Gibson (head of school) accepted the map donations on behalf…
The community of KwaMachi, near Harding on the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal, has recently claimed to have found gold in the area. The Council for Geoscience (CGS), being the custodian of all geoscientific information on the land, was then tasked…
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