Minerals companies attributes and corporate governance

This paper analyses the relationship between the attributes of minerals companies and corporate governance in South Africa. This is achieved by augmenting and comparing corporate governance ratings of companies in the minerals sector to that of the companies in the other sectors of the economy. The results show that autonomous corporate governance as well as the measures of transparency, namely required disclosure and additional disclosure, of the sampled companies have a statistically significant positive relationship with corporate governance. The results have also shown that the companies’ attributes that include economic activity, market value, market performance and financial performance do not have a statistically significant relationship with corporate governance. The paper, nevertheless, recommends continued encouragement of good corporate governance to all companies, including companies in the minerals sector, given the devastating consequences of the recently experienced corporate scandals.