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Business Report writes that Minister of Women in the Presidency, Susan Shabangu, last week urged the mining industry to do more to integrate women in mining, saying, while the representation of women had improved over the years, it was not enough.
Speaking at a luncheon on women in mining at the Mining Indaba, Shabangu, who is a former Minister of Mineral Resources, said the government was committed to changing the fabric of the mining industry. “We still need to do more to ensure women feel the mining sector is one in which they have a career and a future, one in which they can develop their talent,” said Shabangu. She went on to argue that the representation of women in mining was central to transformation in the sector as envisaged in the hotly contested Mining Charter between the government and mining companies. Shabangu also said integrating women into mining was highly challenging “for cultural as well as operational reasons. As a traditionally male-dominated industry, there has been a huge cultural shift for women to start working side-by-side with men.
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