The review of South Africa’s Mining Charter would be 
released to the public by March, at the latest, said Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu.

The review had been com-
pleted in November but the 
matter had been referred to all stakeholders for participation and comment, she said at a media briefing in Cape Town.

Shabangu said that government wanted to provide stakeholders with sufficient time and opportunity to comment on the reviewed Charter.

When government, labour and business created the Charter in 2004 as a transformation blueprint, it was agreed that its provisions of social and labour plans, skills development, employment equity, beneficiation and preferential procurement would be 
reviewed five years later.

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