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SA’s “corrupt, violent & instant society”

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; line-height: 12.75pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 12.75pt;">South Africa has reached a crossroad where the nation’s great Constitution and legal framework and prospects of being a successful country were being offset by persistent poverty, inequality and a scourge of unemployment. <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; line-height: 12.75pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The website miningweekly.com reports from Johannesburg that this proverbial crossroad has caused and “instant society which takes short-term decisions and apply violence and destruction becoming populist and media-attention seeking. The website’s Natasha Odendaal quotes National Union of Mineworkers general-secretary<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Frans Baleni</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> (above) who </span>told delegates at the Joburg Indaba that SA’s “instant” society is greedy and accustomed to abnormalities, has a deficit of empathy and no respect for the law. Businesses were rife with corruption, collusion and anticompetitive behaviour.

by Grant Foster
2014-10-10 03:35
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SA’s “corrupt, violent & instant society”

Further, South Africa’s mining industry held a collapsed management system and weak leadership, with the tactics of organised labour being questionable.

 

“There is an inability to stand for what is right,” he said. He also warned that it was imperative that the current mistrust between workers and companies be resolved.

He says much needs to be done to create a globally competitive and sustainable mining industry and a stronger, more inclusive dialogue could bolster growth efforts.

“We need a new framework for dialogue,” Baleni said, adding that the “bread and butter” issues affecting mineworkers and communities needed to be urgently – and honestly – addressed.

Companies needed to fully comply with the letter and spirit of transformation imperatives and legislation, while organised labour needed to look beyond its own needs and become the voice of those that require it.

Further, information sharing between labour and management must be promoted with the sustainability of the industry developed in the best interest of the workers and other stakeholders.

Baleni emphasised the need for a people-first approach, with greater respect for human rights.

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