David McKay writes that, in an interesting illustration of how the increasing number of safety audits on SA’s mines by the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) was getting out of hand, .AngloGold Ashanti CEO, Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan, has compared them to a freeway accident where the authorities had resolved to check the brakes of every car on the freeway instead of just the cars involved in the accident.

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