Chamber of Mines president Mike Teke acknowledged its brutal past on Wednesday as the mining industry faces empowerment regulations, wage negotiations and South Africa's largest class action case, and is under continuing scrutiny for its past treatment of workers, and Marikana. There are no answers for some of the damage caused, he said, but there's hope for the future. By GREG NICOLSON.
Mike Teke was speaking at the annual general meeting of the Chamber of Mines at the end of his second term as president. He said South Africa's 130 years of mining "has mostly been bleak, caught in violent storms". Teke, deviating significantly from his 2015 speech, which focused on the state of mining, its challenges and opportunities, said it's time for reflection.
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