LETTER: What is Gwede Mantashe smoking?
His assertion that mining is a sunrise industry is easily contradicted by the facts of a dying sector
12 July 2019 - 05:00
I could not believe my ears when I heard the honorable minister of mineral resources Gwede Mantashe telling a crowd that mining is a sunrise rather than a sunset industry.
We all know it’s a dying industry because mines are closing left, right and centre, shafts are being mothballed and thousands of miners are being laid off. ..
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