South Africa has been asked to explain how the
mineral-rights-permitting process can be made ‘more
transparent’ because ‘there have been allegations of
corruption in the granting of tenements’.
The disturbing ‘corruption’ com-ment is made in a
highly-critical article in the latest edition of the Australian
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mining publication Pay- dirt, which staged the Africa Down- undersand mining plant supplier
conference in Perth earlier this month.
Editor Barry Avery makes the ‘allegationsrussia tin ore crushing plant of
corruption’ comment on the very first editorial page of the
magazine, which is being widely distributed to prospective
investors, high commissioners and African government
representatives at the conference, which has previously praised
South Africa’s new minerals legislation.
In the article, Avery writes of reports that Canadian and
Australian prospective investors have been abandoning South Africa
and returning to Canada, South America and West Africa because of
South Africa’s regulations being ‘too onerous’,
its timeframes ‘too long’ and its impediments
‘too unrealistic’.
He complains that South Africa’s Department of Minerals and
Energy has still to implement its promised Web-based
permit-tracking and permit-area systems, and asks how the
permitting process can be made more transparent, given the
‘allegations of corruption’.