Article: Mining must transform: minister

It is time for leaders in the South African mining industry to make transformation a reality, Deputy Mineral Resources Minister Godfrey Oliphant said on Wednesday.

"I know that we have the best of leaders but the leaders must rise to the sophistication of the challenges in the mining industry," he told the 2013 mining lekgotla in Johannesburg.
 
So basically all the things that the mining houses are trying to do already.... and alot of stuff the government has to do but is to boneass lazy and useless to do.
 
seems like every year, the same old same old...and nothing gets done...business complains, the industry is becoming less profitable, workers complain, they not getting paid enough...analyst predict collapse of the industry...and the following year, we just pick up again with the same thread...question is, when is something actually going to be done...?
 
ToxicBunny said:
So basically all the things that the mining houses are trying to do already.... and alot of stuff the government has to do but is to boneass lazy and useless to do.
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Something like that.

They were showing graphs on how South Africa is trailing behind other African nations in the mining sector, and this is all attributed to labour unrest and fence sitting on Governments part.

Government has acknowledged these issues, but whether this is all talk to impress the international delegates and investors, or they if they are actually gonna do something is another story.
 
genetic said:
Government has acknowledged these issues, but whether this is all talk to impress the international delegates and investors, or they if they are actually gonna do something is another story.
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Sure they'll do something! Something involving blaming apartheid/colonialism/white people/rich people for all the problems then sitting back in their air-conditioned BMWs and congratulating themselves, while actually doing nothing related to the job they were hired to do. After all, that would require hard work, and hard work is a colonial invention.
 
The_Assimilator said:
Sure they'll do something! Something involving blaming apartheid/colonialism/white people/rich people for all the problems then sitting back in their air-conditioned BMWs and congratulating themselves, while actually doing nothing related to the job they were hired to do. After all, that would require hard work, and hard work is a colonial invention.
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To be honest, arpartheit or race hasn't been mentioned once. The biggest debate today is strikes, the sheer violence of strikes, union monopolies and the resulting skyrocketing labour costs...
 
"I know that we have the best of leaders but the leaders must rise to the sophistication of the challenges in the mining industry," he told the 2013 mining lekgotla in Johannesburg.
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I got as far as that before thinking .. idiot in the house!
 
genetic said:
To be honest, arpartheit or race hasn't been mentioned once. The biggest debate today is strikes, the sheer violence of strikes, union monopolies and the resulting skyrocketing labour costs...
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Why are people so apologetic about mentioning Apartheid? Our current deformed labour system was created by Apartheid and we are still reeling from that design. There I said it.
 
Redeemed said:
Why are people so apologetic about mentioning Apartheid? Our current deformed labour system was created by Apartheid and we are still reeling from that design. There I said it.
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Who instituted our communist "like" labour unions? What exactly have they brought to the table to improve labour relations? All I can see are corruption and violence increasing...
 
Redeemed said:
Why are people so apologetic about mentioning Apartheid? Our current deformed labour system was created by Apartheid and we are still reeling from that design. There I trolled it.
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FTFY.
 
genetic said:
To be honest, arpartheit or race hasn't been mentioned once. The biggest debate today is strikes, the sheer violence of strikes, union monopolies and the resulting skyrocketing labour costs...
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the violence what really happens you will never see on the news. take marikana, what they did the strikers murdering a few guards and police members that you wont see on the news.
 
genetic said:
Safety for mine workers, equality for women in business. Better integration of private and government sectors. Less red tape to do business. etc...

I have to be at this conference, so that's how I know :)
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How can you create equality for women when they aren't equal? These mining houses have very generous maternity leave policies - women are able to leave their job for six months, the job that their employer has spend time and money training them for, and no one is allowed to bat an eye. You want equality? Give men 6 months paid leave every so often, to work on their own pet projects. Otherwise stop whining about people who have the legal right disrupt a company's structure being treated more cautiously.

And that's just the legislated stuff. I wont even get into the actual differences between men and women.

Redeemed said:
Why are people so apologetic about mentioning Apartheid? Our current deformed labour system was created by the fact that the masses have a room temperature average IQ and the work ethic of Homer Simpson. An education system, and superfluous jobs suitable for these untrainable, unemployable people was created by Apartheid and we are still reeling from that design. There I said it.
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FTFY
 
The_Assimilator said:
Transform? Like, into a giant robot? That would be pretty cool.
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You know how in Transformers the smaller bots link up into a bigger being?

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Ta Da!
 
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