Genesis was retained by the Public-Private Growth Initiative (PPGI) to demystify and increase adherence to regulations on how to re-open the economy safely after lockdown and to remain open using insights from behavioural economics.

Genesis was retained by the IDC to conduct an assessment of the operations and viability of one of the companies in which it has a major shareholding. The company has faced significant challenges over recent years due to the volatile market in which it operates and the nature of its core business lines.

TechnoServe Botswana commissioned Genesis to conduct an audit of the impact assessment of its Tokafala Enterprise Development programme. 

A global mining major asked Genesis to assist with the conceptualisation of a new value proposition for mining communities for the mining industry

De Beers commissioned Genesis Analytics to quantify and assess the impact that the Venetia Mine has had on communities of Blouberg and Musina for 23 years of operations.

Genesis was asked by a global mining company to conceptualise a new future for black equity ownership in the South African mining sector.

The Shared Value team was engaged by a large global mining house to assess the feasibility and design of a national economic summit in South Africa.

De Beers, the world’s largest diamond miner, has been in partnership with the government of Botswana for 50 years - arguably the world’s most successful public-private partnership. The company asked Genesis and PwC to produce an independent report to analyse the economic contribution of the partnership to Botswana.

Genesis was retained to provide expert economic analysis in an international merger between cement producers Holcim and Lafarge. The objective of the assignment was to assess the Competition Commission’s requirement that Holcim divest its minority shareholding in a competing South African cement manufacturer as a condition for the approval of the merger.

Genesis was engaged by a global mining house, as part of its long-term investment planning process, to provide analysis on the state of the political economy and how the mining industry would be affected by the likely direction of policy and politics.

Genesis was hired by Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) to assess the corporate social investment spending by the mining sector in Lesotho.

Genesis was hired by the International Council on Mining and Metals to evaluate the impact of the mining sector on South Africa.

A global mining house asked Genesis to prepare a corporate position and response to proposals by the ruling party to introduce more state intervention in the mining sector.

A global mining house asked Genesis to assist in preparing a response to proposals by the ANC for more state intervention in the mining sector. 

Genesis Analytics, working with PwC, was asked to quantify the economic contribution of Anglo American on South Africa. The work included an economic impact assessment and a large stakeholder engagement process.

Genesis was commissioned to provide economic analysis in the merger between Chlor-Alkali Holdings and Botswana Ash, the only two suppliers of industrial grade salt in South Africa.

Genesis was retained by the legal advisers to ArcelorMittal South Africa to assist in providing expert input on economic issues raised in litigation with Kumba Iron Ore over the transfer of mining rights and subsequent iron ore price hikes. Ultimately, a settlement was reached between the parties.

Genesis was commissioned to assist one of the largest suppliers of mining support products, Bedrock Mining Support, in its bid to oppose a Competition Commission prohibition of its acquisition of hardwood plantations owned by Mondi.

Genesis was commissioned to provide expert economic testimony before the Competition Tribunal in an ultimately unsuccessful hostile takeover bid for Goldfields by Harmony in the gold mining sector. The focus of the project was on the social dimensions of mining mergers, with particular reference to employment losses.  

Genesis was commissioned to provide expert testimony and a report in a landmark competition case involving Botswana Ash and the American Natural Soda Ash Corporation (ANSAC), a cartel of American soda ash producers who had successfully opposed similar legal challenges in other countries.