Miners should focus on community empowerment as nationalism tide rises

Gold Fields chairperson Dr Mamphela Ramphele 

The mining industry should do more to implement sustainable practices and empower local communities, as resource nationalism is evolving into a “tidal wave that threatened” mining, says Gold Fields chairperson Dr Mamphela Ramphele.

“Every week, there are new proposals on mining taxes, environmental obliga- tions, indigenisation measures or other regulations being imposed on the industry somewhere on the globe. Governments, local communities and trade unions are making demands that are seemingly never ending,” she said at the Investing in African Mining Indaba, in Cape Town. Read more here...