Harnessing the powr of change

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Water personality What is your role in the water and mining industry in South Africa? The reality is that South Africa is a mining-based economy, which for the last 120 years of mining has been largely unregulated. As a result there are now a number of unintended consequences. Mining is useful, but it has been harmful in the past due to inadequate oversight and governance. The work that I am involved in is to assist the mining sector, to reposition themselves in a way whereby they can harness the overall benefits of mining, which are many. In doing so, this will ultimately decrease the dis-benefits, in other words, the environmental footprint and associated impact. This will result in redistributing the benefits to society in a more equitable manner. It is about understanding how to reinvent a business case that will enable you to still raise capital in mining, but in areas that are water constrained, and in many cases environmentally sensitive, as well as both culturally and extremely significant.

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