Cyril Ramaphosa offers SA’s mining industry little succour
In a strangely bland keynote speech at the Mining Indaba, he ignored an impassioned plea for urgent economic action from the industry
02 February 2021 - 17:43
President Cyril Ramaphosa gave the SA mining industry little to no succour in his opening address at Africa’s premier mining conference despite a heartfelt plea from the country’s miners for urgent economic reform.
As keynote speeches go, Ramaphosa’s attempt was light on detail, presented a list of demands on mining companies operating in SA and dealt out a few platitudes, offering very little comfort that he had heard the plea...
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