Laid back stance persists on security problems in mining

Mining officials in session at the workshop

Years of feverish negotiations between government and the local mining community over enhanced protection for the sector from an increasingly bold and ruthless criminal element is yet to pay any major dividends, according to some miners who attended the discourses on the industry during the Mining Week think-in held at the International Convention Centre at Liliendaal.

Separate discourses between this newspaper and individual miners during the Mining Week forum found