Rip up charter, provide tax incentives, back junior miners – Maimane
Opposition Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane, addressing delegates at the Joburg Indaba conference. Camerawork: Nicholas Boyd. Editing: Lionel da Silva.
Mining Charter III should be ripped up, proper tax incentives introduced and junior mining enterprises supported to restore investment in the mining industry, which is a stimulator of the South African economy as a whole, opposition Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane said last week.
Delivering a keynote address on the first day of the fifth Joburg Indaba conference, Maimane said it was an indictment against South Africa and the mining industry that the country’s last significant diamond discovery was at Venetia 40 years ago.
He noted that Canada and Australia had far more listed mining companies than South Africa and the vast majority of these were relatively small mining companies.
He said Johannesburg should be the big mining capital, and not Perth, but it was not, because South Africa had shut the door on new mining development through discouraging policy.
New mining developments were virtually nonexistent, despite thousands of mining rights having been issued to people with no interest or expertise.
“This is how we kill an industry,” he said, adding that, in countries other than South Africa, investors were able to gain mining rights information online.
Ninety per cent of mining students are black and they should be the mining entrants of the future.
In the early eighties, mining accounted for 21% of South Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP), but, currently, both mining and manufacturing have dropped out of the top three, with mining contributing only 5% of GDP.
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