The price of gold has reached a lifetime high of 930 dollars an ounce on fears that supplies are running low.
That's in part been fuelled by power cuts in South Africa which have forced the world's three largest gold-mining firms to shut down their operations.
The government's being blamed for ignoring warnings that record growth, and ageing infrastructure, would see the country's power run out.
Now the state power company, Eskom, is saying it will boost electricity supplies to the mines by up to 90 percent by the end of the week.
Nyasa Times "Minister of Women and Child Development Kate Kainja-Kaluluma has passed away in United Kingdom. “Indeed Hon Kate Kainja Kaluluma has died,” confirmed family friends in London. The 57-year-old minister was admitted to a North England hospital – York Hospital. Diplomatic sources at Malawi High Commission in London have said arrangements are being made to send her remains to Malawi. Kainja who was Dedza South West Constituency parliamentarian flew to United Kingdom for medical attention after a long-illness. She is survived by a husband, Emanuel Kaluluma and three children."