If SA’s mining sector is a barometer of the social pressures facing the country, the current situation is disturbing, to say the least.
Far from the unreality of middle-class metropolitan life, mines have long had a finger on SA’s pulse.
For years, important events in the country’s democratic passage have played out on the mining stage: unionisation in 1982, the Mining Charter of 1994 and the 2012 Marikana massacre, which presaged a new, disturbing chapter in SA’s history...A subscription helps you enjoy the best of our business content every day along with benefits such as articles from our international business news partners; ProfileData financial data; and digital access to the Sunday Times and Sunday Times Daily.
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