The Mining Charter is coming out in June I think. I found numerous articles on this subject. As an aside a MiningMX article highlights the biggest challenges that the industry faces and empowerment is not one of them. One of the key deterrents to investment in South Africa has been the energy crisis, which culminated […]
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Rob Davies has been doing some reading and is now talking about empowerment (after a year's silence). The good news is that he is most concerned important things like ownership – which the mining sector is most concerned about. Rob is worried about things like enterprise development and skills development. It shouldn't be such a
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There is a skill to sending out a press release. You need to write a decent one, have a good mailing list and choose the perfect moment. I did none of the three, well I wrote the basis of the press release, everything else was done by Lesley-Ann van Niftrik of Image Communications. This is
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A few years ago I was invited to speak at a conference in Stellenbosch. I stayed with David Meintjies, who was the former CEO of UUNET South Africa (which is now MTN Business I think). I worked for David for a few years so I know him quite well and I know him to be
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