The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) says it is shocked and disappointed by the suspension of the implementation of the new Mining Charter as agreed between the Chamber of Mines and the Department of Mineral Resources.The chamber announced the suspension on Friday, saying it would last until judgment is handed down by the High Court on its urgent application for the implementation of the charter to be suspended pending the outcome of a court application for it to be reviewed and set aside.NUM said Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane seemed to have "buckled under pressure in court and conceded in the suspension of the Mining Charter and thus delayed the meaningful inclusion of employees and communities in this exploitative industry". "We expected no less from the Chamber of Mines, [whose actions we feel] have attacked every essence of transformation in the mining industry," the union’s head of transformation, Luthando Brukwe, said in a statement."We will be consulting our l...
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