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Ntsiki Adonisi-Kgame is an Executive and Head of ENSafrica’s natural resources and environment practice.  She specialises in all aspects of mining law and has a holistic perspective on mining matters due to her former position as general counsel for a leading mining group, where she was responsible for the group’s entire legal function and related corporate affairs functions. Ntsiki acts for a wide range of mining companies in all mineral commodity sectors, including the base and precious metals, coal, rare earths, sand and diamonds sectors.

Ntsiki’s experience covers a broad range of areas, including mergers and acquisitions; conducting mining and oil and gas due diligences; execution and registration of mining and petroleum titles; advising on the integrity, security of tenure and variation of mining titles; and structuring, drafting, negotiating and reviewing various types of agreements, from project inception to execution. She has experience in disputes in the mining and petroleum  sectors, including judicial review of administrative decisions. She also advises in regard to aspects of mineral royalties, environmental aspects of mining law, and stakeholder aspects in the mining sector.

Ntsiki is an expert in all aspects of local development, including local content regulations, community development, local economic empowerment and black economic empowerment in the mining sector across the Africa continent, in accordance with The Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act 28 of 2002 (MPRDA) and the Broad-Based Socio-Economic Empowerment Charter for the Mining and Minerals Industry (Mining Charter).