Beyond the struggle
Skyways|February 2017

Small steps are being made towards equality in the mining industry.

Sisiwe Mthethwa
Beyond the struggle

The concept of women in mining in South Africa is a fairly new one – newer than our democracy. It was only in 2002 that our government took a meaningful stand behind women and introduced the Mining Charter which, among other conditions, required mining companies to ensure that at least 10% of their workforce were women by 2009. This target was only achieved in 2014.

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