{"id":853567,"date":"2026-03-11T09:11:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=853567"},"modified":"2026-03-11T09:11:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:11:44","slug":"south-africas-largest-gold-miner-scores-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/853567\/south-africas-largest-gold-miner-scores-big\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa\u2019s largest gold miner scores big"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s\u00a0Harmony\u00a0Gold\u00a0said its half-year profit rose 13% on higher bullion prices, helping the miner boost its dividend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harmony&#8217;s headline earnings per share came in at R14.31 ($0.8827) in the six months to December 31, from R12.70 previously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The biggest\u00a0gold\u00a0producer in South Africa declared an interim dividend of R5.30 per share, up from R2.27 previously, making a record payment of R3.38 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The price of\u00a0gold\u00a0soared by about 60% in 2025, driven by geopolitical and economic uncertainty, expectations of U.S. interest rate cuts, and increased purchases by central banks amid a global de-dollarisation trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year has seen further momentum, with&nbsp;gold&nbsp;prices gaining almost 30% to a record high near $5,600 an ounce at the end of January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>($1 = 16.2118 rand) (Reporting by Nelson Banya; Editing by Tom Hogue)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harmony Gold has declared a record interim dividend payout of over R3.3 billion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":815225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[21850],"class_list":["post-853567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-harmony-gold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853572,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853567\/revisions\/853572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}