As the mining industry debates the consequences of the 21-day lockdown and its possible extension, one of the main unions suggested heightened safety regulations to apply across the sector to clear the way for restarting mines.
“As Amcu, we will not support any ramp-up of operations at mines before these regulations are agreed upon and gazetted accordingly,” the union’s president, Joseph Mathunjwa, said. The meeting of about 24 people at a long table in the department’s offices in Pretoria shows many attendees without masks, including Minerals Council SA CEO Roger Baxter, but with people sitting in every second seat, prompting questions why it was necessary to have the meeting in person and not on a digital platform, keeping captains of industry, union leadership and government officials safe.
This has resulted in limited operations in platinum group metals, gold, iron ore, chrome and manganese, especially at those companies with open pit mines. Mantashe has said these mines had to operate with up to half their normal workforces. It said mining companies were paying R7bn in wages during the lockdown and this did not include the cost of putting mines into care and maintenance, which are programmes to keep mines pumped free of water, ventilated and safe, incurring expenditure while no or limited revenue was coming in.
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