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Mining Weekly reports that the proposed new broad-based black economic-empowerment Mining Charter could mean devastating consequences for the ailing mining industry, Solidarity believes.
The trade union strongly denounced the draft charter in a statement on Wednesday. The proposed draft, which was discussed in Parliament on Tuesday during Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane’s budget speech, was gazetted and released for public comment by the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) last week. The new charter’s proposed black representation levels and lack of focus on sustainability and occupational health and safety were among the concerns listed by Solidarity general secretary Gideon du Plessis. He was particularly worried about the timing of the new proposed charter, considering the prevailing “retrenchment bloodbath” in the mining industry.
- Read this report in full at Mining Weekly
- Read Solidarity’s press statement in this regard at Solidarity online
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