Government aims to set up artisanal mining sector, says Gwede Mantashe
24 January 2020 - 11:15
Mineral resources & energy minister Gwede Mantashe says his department will soon start compiling fatality and injury statistics of illegal miners to give society a hard look at the human cost of the activity.
Illegal mining is rising in SA, with the miners known as zama zamas presenting a big risk to themselves and to the health and safety of the employees of legal mining operations, often threatening them and their families to assist in the crime...
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