Anthea Jeffery: Time to take Mining Charter from BEE to EED
Off the back of disastrous unemployment figures, where 4 000 jobs were shed in the country’s mining sector, Anthea Jeffery is calling for urgent resolution on the Mining Charter.
Off the back of disastrous unemployment figures, where 4 000 jobs were shed in the country’s mining sector, Anthea Jeffery is calling for urgent resolution on the Mining Charter.
Sibanye Gold criticized the country’s planned Mining Charter, saying some aspects of the legislation are “not acceptable” in their current form.
South Africa issued a draft plan that intends to compel mines to ensure that black people hold at least 26 percent of their shares even after those stakes were sold.
Before relocating to London, Simon Lincoln Reader used to be the Gupta family’s neighbour. In this superbly written piece, he offers a unique perspective.
South Africa’s Chamber of Mines is optimistic that it will resolve a dispute with the government about the requirements for black shareholding in mining companies this year.
A firm that’s almost half-owned by President Jacob Zuma’s son, Duduzane, obtained shares in a company founded by the Gupta family weeks before that firm bought Glencore’s Optimum coal complex in South Africa, share register documents show.
Local stakeholders are hampering the progress of the local mining industry through poor leadership and decision-making, according to trade union solidarity.
ArcelorMittal CEO Paul O’Flaherty says government must decide if the steel industry is a weapon of choice for the country. Industrialise or import, first creates jobs and opportunity, the second decimates industry.
Solidarity’s Gideon du Plessis reopens the Farlam report on Marikana and reveals two key deficiencies.
It took more than 2 years to produce the findings from the Marikana Commission of Inquiry and then a further 3 months for President Zuma to ‘mull over it’, before it was made public. Here it is.