Red tape and bureaucracy shafting SA mining industry
Minerals Council SA says there is an urgent need for regulatory certainty and faster rights approvals
It is not only South Africa’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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