Elite-friendly Mining Charter flatters to deceive, favouring patronage networks

25 June 2017 - 00:03

By Christopher Rutledge

Coming from a minister of mineral resources who was picked from obscurity to do the bidding of a powerful patronage network, the latest Mining Charter flatters to deceive and, like the story of post-1994 South Africa, leads only to deeper inequalities.

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