Settling Down

 South Africa having still elements of a first world economy,has returned to normal after the recent turbulent months. The economy marches on and by and large with little racial tension which seems to produce so many problems for the rest of the world.

Of course we have the resources to thank for this situation as they produce most of the taxes ,for our rather inept government to waste on social schemes that will see them re-elected rather than stimulating the economy to produce stable jobs that will grow the non mining sectors .

We produce most of the platium group metals in the world . Other metals and minerals are in good supply such as coal,gold,chrome,diamonds,iron ore and many rare minerals as well.

As minerals and metals are now coming into their own as uses increase and special ones needed for clean air etc we are on a good recovery path.

At the moment major mining groups have paid exceptsionaly good pay outs ,which then usually drops the capital price of those shares by that amount. No need to rush in to buying, but good to nibble at extra lower prices. We feel in our opinion that the future is very bright. 

At the moment Palladiun and Rhodium are at very high prices,but as Palladium is connected to petrol and diesel the future uses for these minerals might be limited. On the other hand  for Platinum and Lithium the sky is likely to be the limit, as clean air is the now thing gowing forward!

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THE FUTURE !

The future remains tricky ,in ourSouth African sense. 

The riots were part political and part because of poor economic prospects. Luckily the political part was led by only one main tribe,mostly the Zulus  to reverse the outcome not to their liking of their former state president showing contempt of court and being jailed after FAILING TO ANSWER SUMMONESSES TO APPEAR IN COURT.

This lit the fuse on a nation already finding difficuly in the work situation ,made worse many times buy Covid lockdowns, calling on their tribe and the rest of South African tribes to loot shops ,blow up electrical pylons an disrupt commerce on main roads etc. the police in Natal 80% ZULUS just stood by and did nohing.Almost the same when the army was called in.

How ever when the more educated middle class saw that stores burnt down left them with out work ,all stood together with Europeans ,Indians and Africans to guard their homes,work places and added to that private securiity companies stopped the bad actions to a large extent as home guards etc were formed which could have led to full scale civil war.

Thank God,what finally led to  a victory of law and order was the vast TAXIS ASSOCIATIONS COUNTRY WIDE THAT CAME UP ARMED AS THEY REALISED THAT THEY WOULD LOOSE THEIR LUCRATIVE INCOME OF TRAVELLERS TO AND FROM WORK.They organised private armies which they mostly paid for. They also gave the police and military thorough talking to to bring them into the action ,pointing out they would loose their jobs if anarchy  was going to rule.

The final answer is of course to educate more people and have schemes to uplift the middle class to be more productive. The government is now starting to work in this direction,hopefully an on going process in future.

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SELL IN MAY !

   DURING THE NORTHERN  HEMEPHERE SUMMER PEOPLE IN THE PAST USED TO TAKE

 TIME OFF FROM ALL TYPES OF WORK

.COVID LOCKDOWNS HAVE NOW UPSET

 EVERYTHING. AND GO AWAY RHYMES VERY NICELY WITH SELL IN MAY

  THE MARKET HAS IN ANY CASE BEEN VERY MECURIAL THIS YEAR, UP TO THE 15 OF

 MAY THEN WAY DOWN AGAIN HERE IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE. OUR OWN 

 MARKET IS LANGUISHING IN THE DOLSRUMS,WITH POLITICIANS MAKING DUMB

 REMARKS,BEST TO IGNORE THEM NOW. FROM THIS YOU WILL SEE THAT WE REALLY HAVE LITTLE TO WRITE ABOUT   IN THE COLDEST PART OF THE YEAR

 I READ SOMEWHERE THAT THE EARTH HAS CHANGED ITS ORBIT AROUND THE SUN,BUT HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO CONFIRM THIS RUMOUR! THAT SAID IF IT IS NOW IN A TIGHTER ORBIT,COULD IT LEAD TO HOTTER SUMMERS AND COLDER WINTERS? ON THE OTHER HAND IT IS CLAIMED THAT WE ARE DRIFTING AWAY FROM THE SUN, ALL VERY CONFUSING. 

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REAL ESTATE

MINING AND RESOURCES NEWS

The covid reverse spike!

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 1 .MY SPECIALIST STOCK UPDATE

2. REAL ESTATE UPDATE

3. THE NEW MEDIUM CAP LIST

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APRIL 9 ,2021 UPDATE

 Platinum group metals ,have done the best, in increases of capital of late and will definitely pay the best dividends. We still favour stocks in Britian as this economy is likely to out strip the rest of Europe as being nimble not weighed down by 27 countries having to give the go ahead to get anything done !

As an example they are far ahead with their covid 19 campaign. The European Union has made a muck of theirs and is still struggling to get off the ground.

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MY SPECIALIST RESOURCES UPDATED 13/4/21 AND ALL OTHER UPDATES

THE TRENDING METALS OF THE MOMENT !

 THAT IS OF COURSE ,THE PLATINUM GROUP METALS. NO OTHER SECTORS OF OUR  SEEMS                  

 ABLE TO PUT IN A SUSTAINED RUN AND THE WHOLE REST OF THE MARKET

 USUALLY FALLS BACK AFTER A COUPLE OF MONTHS DUE TO FATIGUE CAUSED BY

 PROBABLY THE COVID THING!

Here are some updates worth knowing about.

.1)  A great blow to exposing the world to fuel cell technology has been struck ,by the Japanese government by excludung spectators from actually been present at the games. ALL TRANSPORT FOR TOURISTS  WOULD HAVE BEEN BY CARS AND BUSSES USING FUEL CELLS THAT GIVES OFF NO POLLUTANTS.

OBVIOUSLY  FUEL CELLS ARE BECOMING WELL ESTABLISHED ,HOW EVER THIS KNOWLEDGE WILL TAKE LONGER NOW TO FILTER THROUGH.

2.) Palladium's price has skyrocketed now. This has been caused by Russian mines been flooded ,from storms and a shortage building up. This seem to happen at least once or more in every decade! Speculators then have driven the price higher as well. Surely there will be  downward pressure at some time causing prices to fall to more reasonable levels.

3.) Platinum is our personal preferred metal ,in the years to come. Do read our past posts for a good indsight.

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