On Wednesday, the Cabinet endorsed appointing Thabo Mokoena as director-general of the Department of Mineral Resources from April 1. "Everyone is scrambling to find out more about him. We really know nothing about him at all," said a mining industry figure who declined to be named. The position of Department of Mineral Resources director-general has been vacant for more than a year. David Msiza, the chief inspector of mines, has doubled as acting director-general since Thibedi Ramontja stepped down at the end of 2015. The department said Mokoena was an advocate and former secretary of the Free State legislature. He had a law degree from the University of the Western Cape and a postgraduate diploma in law. Mokoena’s most pressing tasks would include the finalisation and gazetting of the third iteration of the mining charter by the end-March deadline, which Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane set at the Mining Indaba in February. He will also have to steer the finalisation of t...
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