If SA’s mining sector were a character in a Jane Austen novel it would be the unloved rector, or the middle sister whose dance card yields only disappointment. Or something like that, writes davidaamckay.
If SA’s mining sector were a character in a Jane Austen novel it would be the unloved rector, or the middle sister whose dance card yields only disappointment. Or something like that.
In this conceit, Roger Baxter, CEO of Minerals Council SA, is a struggling suitor. He used the Joburg Indaba conference this month to list the ills the mining sector believed it could resolve, if only its partner-in-waiting could be located. Unfortunately, that partner — the government — wasn’t even in the room...
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