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Importance of partnerships between mining stakeholders is emphasised

27th April 2018

By: Simone Liedtke

Creamer Media Social Media Editor & Senior Writer

     

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Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe has stressed the importance of partnerships between mining companies and labour, as well as with communities, for mining to be sustainable.

Speaking at the inaugural KwaZulu-Natal Mining Indaba, in Newcastle, he noted that such partnerships would ensure that the country realised its objective of creating a meaningfully transformed, competitive and growing mining sector.

“It’s not competitiveness and growth versus transformation. Both are required in order for the sustainability of the sector.”

He further emphasised the importance of the rehabilitation of old mining sites, which had the potential to create jobs, while restoring the land that had been mined.

However, nonprofit organisation groundWork last week said it was disappointed that the event had restricted community participation to only three participants, which would result in the true state of mining in the area not being meaningfully discussed.

“With unemployment close to 40% in South Africa, we cannot rely on an apartheid economic model of mining that has caused ill health, violence and destroyed people’s environments.”

Additionally, the organisation highlighted that the meeting was hosted in areas where there were recent forced removals to make way for mining.

Edited by Chanel de Bruyn
Creamer Media Online Managing Editor

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