Panel calls for policy changes to boost South Africa’s mining industry

Governments that have implemented positive policy changes, such as the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia, have contributed to exponential growth in the mining production of their countries in the last ten years, but South Africa is lagging far behind, Cadiz Corporate Solutions head of mining Peter Major said on Wednesday. “We haven’t had a policy change here since 1994, which will keep pushing our production down, which does not make it a good investment destination,” he noted during a panel discussion at Deloitte’s Africa Outlook 2017.