The DMR placed an ad in some Sunday newspaper asking for comments on the Mining Charter. I was really hoping that I would be invited to Parliament to have a yak about it – but it seems as though the process is taking place without me. Anyway – now that I have dealt with the […]
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Typepad has this amazing feature called Blog It which is an app that allows you to highlight text on a page and then send it through to your blog. It also allows you to post the same content to Facebook and Twitter. My blogging has gone up as a result of this. But sometimes you
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My numerous and (in some cases) somewhat sycophantic requests to numerous players in the minerals industry for an advance copy of the minerals charter fell on deaf ears. So I. like everyone else who is not in the industry had to wait for the document to be published. I got my copy off the Business
How long will it take for the ultimate ANC-defender (Joey Shaarky) to make some snide racist comment on Facebook. Much is happening on the ANC front. We have the Mining Industry that is in a complete shambles, such that they have actually placed a moratorium on receiving new applications for prospecting rights. And then there
Actually we need to be a little more than a little concerned. This ArcelorMittal-ICT thing could be the face of how business is going to be conducted in the future. I am so sickened by the rent(boy) nature of this fuck-up that I am not going to go out of my way to post too
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Two articles caught my eye on the mining charter. Tim Cohen wrote a piece yesterday on the mining charter and how the industry has descended into a corrupt mine field. In the new South African mining strategy , the industry managed to include the notion of “sustainable growth” along with the requirement of “meaningful transformation”,
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If anyone does have a copy it would be very appreciated if you could sent it through to me. That is before the final one is published in August (ish). I did mention Peter Leon in an earlier post today. Mining Weekly conveniently interviewed Peter today. Leon said that the important aspect of the historic
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The department of mineral resources will be stepping up its monitoring and evaluation of the mining industry to ensure that transformation does take place, Minister Susan Shabangu said. "We cannot have… an industry controlled by a Mickey Mouse, we have to be serious. One of the things we are going to do is increase monitoring
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South Africa unveiled the country’s new mining plans today, but stuck with the previous mining charter’s target of transferring 26% of the ownership of mines to black people by 2014. The revised plans will seek to speed up black ownership, skills development, employment equity, procurement, housing and living conditions, and mining beneficiation. “The 26% target
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From Reuters South Africa will launch a new mining charter on Wednesday to increase black ownership in the sector after the previous agreement failed to do so, the department of Mineral Resources said on Tuesday. "The leaders of government, business and labour will be signing a declaration as a sign of their support for the
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