EDITORIAL: Zwane and Co: SA’s dead men walking
The withdrawing tide of the Zuma administration is further exposing Mosebenzi Zwane and other incompetent and possibly corrupt ministers like him
Mosebenzi Zwane, the minister in charge of mining in the dying days of the Jacob Zuma administration, is the perfect emblem of the ANC’s constipated leadership transition. The mining industry was disappointed and angered by the speech Zwane made at the Mining Indaba in Cape Town. But what did they expect? He has been a worse than useless minister from the start, with his recklessly destructive approach to the mining charter and a refusal to engage properly with the industry, which he clearly regards as an enemy. Zwane has done nothing to show even the most basic understanding of this complex and vital sector. The Chamber of Mines, after being routinely ignored and insulted by the minister, refuses to talk to him. Chamber CEO Roger Baxter, not a man given to intemperate language, has said: "The challenges in the regulatory environment in 2017 were arguably the worst the mining industry has ever experienced." Zwane’s unilateral implementation of the charter in June last year did "imme...
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