South Africa’s mining sector has many challenges — the list is as deep as a Witwatersrand gold reef — but a closer focus on mining safety sees the country marking the first fatality-free month in its history.
South Africa’s mining sector faces many headwinds and it is becoming an increasingly hard sell to the investors who are in Cape Town for the Investing in African Mining Indaba from 6 to 9 February.
It’s a premier chance to promote South Africa as a destination for mining investment, which the government has often squandered even as attendees have enjoyed aOne emerging ray of light is the improving performance of South Africa’s mining industry on the health and safety front. Since we are talking about human lives, the importance of this issue cannot be overstated.Matters of health and safety are high on the investor radar screen these days.
In January 2023, not a single miner in South Africa was killed at work, the first time this has happened in a calendar month. The fact that it is a milestone underscores the sheer scale of the carnage.Among many initiatives, a concerted effort to address fall-of-ground incidents is bearing fruit. There were six fall-of-ground fatalities last year — six too many but a remarkable achievement in the hazardous setting of South Africa’s platinum and gold mines, which are the world’s deepest.
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