The legal framework that has driven investors and jobs out of South Africa’s mining sector can be fixed – but only by fundamentally reforming how mining rights are granted and held.
This is the message delivered by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) in a webinar today on its draft Growth and Employment in Mining (GEM) Bill. In the webinar, IRR Head of Policy Research Dr Anthea Jeffery and Projects and Publications Manager Terence Corrigan set out the case for overhauling the legislation that governs this sector.
Mining’s contribution to GDP has slid from 21% in 1980 to around 7% today. The sector shed an estimated 55,000 jobs between 2008 and 2025, while exploration spending…
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Van der Merwe goes to Paris to watch the Boks take on the Brits at the world cup.
Whilst in Paris, he walks around, gaping and staring at everything – so much so that he walks smack bang into a fire hydrant which hits him so hard on the family jewels that he has to be rushed to hospital where the doctors tell him they have to remove his testicles.
Van goes berserk, he bites and snarls at every one and he won\’t let anybody within 10 metres of him. Eventually they find a South African doctor in the hospital and get him to talk to Van.
He walks up to Van and tells him \”Hey Van, die ouens moet jou knaters uithaal.\”
Van replies \”O, okay, ek dog die bliksems wil my test tickets vat.\”