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Mining licence approval must be speeded up in a one-stop regulatory environment

16th August 2024

By: Martin Creamer

Creamer Media Editor

     

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Mines have a propensity to create widespread economic activity well beyond the mine gates, which is why government must not be allowed to take so excessively long to approve mine licensing.

South African mining needs a one-stop regulatory environment to ensure that an applicant is not sent from one department to the other but goes to one place where the application is submitted and the applicant receives communication from one source. A copper mine in the Northern Cape, which is really a revived mine rather than a new mine, began working on licensing 16 years ago.

That same mine is now even planning to add as much value locally to copper by producing copper wire and copper pipe, which could have been achieved ages ago with government efficiency. Inefficiency must be fully exposed and roundly condemned because of the way it is worsening joblessness, inequality and poverty.

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Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

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