It is great that you can only dig up articles so far removed from actual CRND business to try to cast aspersions on them, though. Must mean all is good with CRND!
Room101 -- a typical post of yours. You catch a whiff of something and dump it here, hoping it will give the impression CRND is affected badly by it without specifying why it will have a direct impact on CRND. Here is a quote from a news article about it "South Africa's parliament passed changes to its main petroleum law on Wednesday, giving the state a stake of 20 percent in new gas and oil exploration and production ventures, a move industry said would discourage investment.".....CRND is neither a new venture nor a gas or oil venture, so, another non story from Room101?
News related to the GoldPlat RNS. "Meanwhile, to provide a source of high-grade material for processing at Goldplat’s main plant, in Benoni, the company had obtained the right to mine ore from Central Rand Gold's Crown East No 4 shaft. Mining was undertaken by a third-party contractor. Moritz said the small-scale operation operated profitably for the period under review and the company intended to continue the development and “opening up†of this project. “This constant investment in our recovery operations underpins our commitment to ensuring that we maintain a competitive service offering and stronghold on gold recovery in the area at GPL,†he said." .......Looks like GoldPlat isn't too worried about the rain and electricty and continues to invest their cash in the CRND project.
I see Room101 has been busy! He so far has posted nearly 80 SELL ratings for CRND (yes, eighty, crazy, isn't it? You'd almost think he has an agenda here.....). The AMD pumps will be up and running soon, don't worry. Regarding the ESKOM electricity outages and recent heavy rains news articles you he has dragged up as reasons to sell CRND....I don't see anyone in South Africa exiting mining stock. Indeed, none of the mining companies in South Africa have released an RNS stating this would be an issue, which they would be legally bound to do if there was a material impact. In fact, the CRND listing on JSE was up on Tuesday and is still nearly 100% up from a couple of weeks ago, clearly people in South Africa still think this is a good share to hold or even buy into.