ALLAN SECCOMBE | Red tape and bureaucracy shafting SA mining industry
Minerals Council SA says there is an urgent need for regulatory certainty and faster rights approvals
30 May 2021 - 19:47
It is not only SA’s enormous backlog of unprocessed mineral rights, which mineral resources and energy minister Gwede Mantashe describes as a “nightmare”, but the bureaucratic red tape and time to get approval that is holding the industry back...
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