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Unilateral changes in mining charter worry the industry
The Chamber of Mines’s Tebello Chabana tells why the industry is worried about unilateral government changes to the mining charter
Tebello Chabana, head of public affairs at the Chamber of Mines, speaks to us about the DMR’s unilateral changes to the mining charter, and why industry is so worried.
BUSINESS DAY TV: The revised empowerment charter for the mining industry will be released next month and the Department of Mineral Resources says substantive changes made have been made to April’s draft of the legislation. But the industry says changes have been unilaterally made and it’s had very little sight of what they are. Does this set the stage for yet another battle over the "once empowered, always empowered" principle? Joining us on News Leader with more is Tebello Chabana, senior executive of public affairs and transformation at the Chamber of Mines. Tebello ... so do you get the sense that this legislation is being forced through, regardless of the consequences that it has on the industry, perhaps to score political points? Tebello Chabana: Yes ... the process is certainly something that we as the chamber are quite concerned with. If you recall the previous iterations of the mining charter, the 2002 and the 2010 were essentially negotiated documents. So these documents we...
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