The Department of Mineral Resources, headed by controversial minister Mosebenzi Zwane, has been rapped over the knuckles by Parliament’s mining committee for what it called its failure to do all it can to prop up the struggling industry.The committee’s budgetary review and recommendation report, which is prepared after interrogating the 2015-16 annual reports of the department and the entities over which it has responsibility, was tabled in Parliament on Thursday.The review notes despite the mining industry being in a great crisis due to the unfavourable economic climate, the department has not done everything in its powers to assist."The question is whether the Department of Mineral Resources is doing all that possibly could be done in its role as the custodian of the nation’s mineral wealth. Many initiatives to address problems in the sector seem to be perpetually delayed," the report notes."The need for important, additional amendments to the mining law were acknowledged in 2010 ...
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