Former petrol attendant to probe perceptions of Mining Charter in PhD thesis
MZWANDILE ANTHONY MAKI Mzwandile, who started working life as a petrol attendant, in 1987, has subsequently achieved his MBA at North-West University
Gold mining company Pan African Resources’ Evander Gold Mines human resources manager Mzwandile Anthony Maki outlined the early-stage development of his PhD thesis, entitled ‘Testing the Perceptions of the Effect of the Mining Charter in the Gold Mining Industry’, at an event in Johannesburg last month.
He was speaking at the Da Vinci Institute’s Curiosita forum – a monthly colloquium for contemporary thinking on the management of technology, innovation and people in a systemic context, which is hosted by faculty at the institute.
Maki, who started his working life as a petrol attendant in 1987, subsequently completed an MBA at North-West University, where he was awarded the best syndicate research project. He is currently completing a PhD through Da Vinci.
The study aims to explore the elements that make up the Mining Charter, including ownership, community development, employment equity and human resource development. He has also touched on the stance of the industry’s professional bodies on the Mining Charter.
Maki explained that he aimed to establish how mines had complied with the Mining Charter and the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, while also establishing industry stakeholders’ perceptions with regard to compliance by mining houses.
He said this was of particular interest to him, as, through his work at Evander, he often faced issues of community and labour unrest.
Maki is on the second chapter of the thesis and hopes to publish it once he has completed the PhD.
“I feel the findings of my thesis could be of interest to all those interested in the South African mining industry and the gold sector, in particular.”
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