TRANSFORMATION OF RESOURCES SECTOR
Local mining will suffer from radical departure in way charter is redrawn
Department ignores a history of achieving buy-in through vigorous negotiation among a range of stakeholders, writes Tebello Chabana
The first mining charter, signed by stakeholders on October 11 2002, and the first revised version published in 2010, were the products of intense, rigorous and thorough negotiation. On each occasion the government, the department of mineral resources and of trade and industry, representative unions, community stakeholders, the South African Mining Development Association and the Chamber of Mines were locked in serious meetings in which ideas were debated on how to transform the mining sector in a manner that was sustainable and viable and would unlock the economic and transformational potential of the industry and SA’s people. These intense meetings produced a mining charter in 2002 that all stakeholders could be proud of, even though compromises were reached in a number of areas. In essence, the mining industry stakeholders negotiated an outcome similar to the Codesa process in Kempton Park that would help transform the sector in the coming decades. While the 2002 mining charter w...
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