It is a good thing that not too many serious investors turned up to hear Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane’s sales pitch in the question-and-answer session he hosted at the Mining Indaba in Cape Town on Monday. Zwane, it appears, lives in a parallel universe to the rest of us, and says when it comes to the mining industry, he has "created an enabling environment" in the past two years. His door was always open and he was always ready to listen when anyone had "an issue" with him. Without any irony at all, Zwane also boldly stated that since becoming minister the awarding of mining licences had been accelerated and that he granted 30 licences in the past two years. He did not mention his failed attempt to place the awarding of all rights on ice until the court case over the Mining Charter had been resolved. Most of the session was tightly controlled by a programme director who asked the minister a series of sweetheart questions on the success of his international roadshow an...
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