South Africa: Why Mining Communities Will Take Government to Court

Mining companies and the government are ignoring the interests of the communities that should be benefiting from mining, writes the author. Now civil society organisations intend to take legal action.

The Chamber of Mines (CoM) at its recent AGM was adamant that the "mining industry has done more for transformation than any other component of the private sector since the advent of democracy". This bold assertion was in response to claims by the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR), which suggests that among other failures of the industry to meet its own commitments made in the Mining Charter, that only 36% of the industry has met the targets of community development.

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