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Mining Charter set to worsen stakeholder relations – Bench Marks

30th June 2017

By: Martin Creamer

Creamer Media Editor

     

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The new Mining Charter is the flawed outcome of inadequate consultation with communities, the Bench Marks Foundation said last week, when it warned that the document is poised to worsen stakeholder relations.

Bench Marks executive director John Capel condemned the new charter as a weakened piece of legislation that would result in more protest action.

“It’s as dangerous to South Africa as an abandoned mine shaft.”

The foundation accused the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) of being entirely disingenuous in its claim that it had consulted.

“It boggles the mind that the DMR believes that speaking to a small number of chiefs in one mining area is representative of the views of mining-affected communities in South Africa,” Capel stated in a release to Creamer Media’s Mining Weekly.

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Magazine Managing Editor

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