The SA Ministry of Minerals and Energy has contemptuously
fobbed off requests to justify a claim that less than 1% of mining
ventures in the country are "black" owned. Communicating through
journalist cum spin doctor David Barritt, Departmental officials told
Miningweb to do its "own calculations".
A June 23 statement by the Minister, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, prepared
by the Harry Potter quoting Barritt, stated: "Locally, black people
own less than 1% of mining ventures and they want this to change."
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