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taking place in Cape Town.

Another issue is that of tensions between mining communities and companies over mining rights and inclusive participation. “Mining communities are allocated 0.9% of the total revenue that is generated in the sector. Of the 0.9%, 70% of that is going missing; communities cannot account for it…those in power have systematically through legislation, power influence and power broking, excluded the voice of communities and we are saying that is enough.

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