Mining

More on the mining charter

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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Caird Code Rule #1 – Is BEE applicable to you

A while ago I was doing a presentation to the American Chamber of Commerce on Equity Equivalents. One of the delegates was an apparel manufacturer who asked my why his company should consider the programme I was proposing. I was a little surprised that such a company would even consider equity equivalents as an option.

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Namibia’s BEE is getting closer – so they say

Namibian Mines and Energy Minister Erkki Nghimtina announced that Government was nearing completion of the long-awaited Transformational Economic and Social Empowerment Framework (TESEF) that would compel mining companies to empower communities within which they operate.Addressing an annual general meeting of the Chamber of Mines in Windhoek a fortnight ago, Nghimtina said TESEF would compel all

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