“When these metal prices are suppressed, it actually badly impacts some of the key industries in South Africa. It impacts people’s jobs and pensions and the livelihoods of individuals and families. 

It is an important consideration that people do not  frequently think about.

In the western world, we are delighted when commodity prices go lower as it means we can consume more stuff and we can buy more things and inflation is kept low.

But for emerging markets, they do not have the product and service driven economies that we have, they are more dependent on the value of their raw materials and their natural resources and therefore it is important they get a far price for them and fair value for them.

If they do, a lot of the poverty in the world that we seen in the world would be greatly alleviated …

It is one of the key issues in the gold market and we think that it is an important angle to look at …”