ANA reports that the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) on Friday said that, while it welcomed the amended Mining Charter gazetted on Thursday, the targets set by the government for black ownership of the country’s mineral wealth could have gone further.
In a statement, the union welcomed the introduction of a 30% black ownership target for all mines, even though its submissions for incremental targets whereby the industry would have achieved 35% as a minimum target by 2022 had not been accepted. The NUM said it was however disappoint that the economic benefit for mineworkers and mining communities had not been increased to 10%. The union slammed the Chamber of Mines of SA’s intention to interdict government from implementing the Charter, saying this was “regrettable and regressive”. The NUM said it would mobilise communities against mining houses opposed to the reviewed Charter.
- Read this report in full at Mining Weekly
- Read the NUM’s comprehensive comments on the amended Charter at Politicsweb
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