Organisational overview and strategy
ABOUT THE MINERALS COUNCIL SOUTH AFRICA
The Minerals Council South Africa (Minerals Council) represents 90% of South Africa’s mining industry by production, and is thus the industry’s primary advocacy and lobbying organisation. The Minerals Council supports and promotes the growth and transformation of the South African mining industry, and serves its members and promotes their interests by providing strategic support and advisory services. A key function of the organisation is to facilitate interaction among mining companies, to examine policy issues and other matters of mutual concern, and to develop and refine positions on key matters related to the industry and the country. These matters frequently need to be taken up at government level: the Minerals Council is the industry’s primary advocacy body tasked with negotiating, consulting and lobbying. The Minerals Council also communicates with the public at large on these matters, and about major policies endorsed by its members.
Member benefits Representations to government and other stakeholders carry more weight when expressed collectively and, thus, the Minerals Council constitutes a body of members more powerful than the sum of its parts. The Minerals Council participates in several international bodies to further strengthen social, environmental and economic performance in the South African mining industry. The organisation is a member of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) and the Mining Industry Association of Southern Africa (MIASA), and engages closely with the World Platinum Investment Council.
The Minerals Council is staffed by a group of professionals who enjoy the confidence and respect of the policy-making community and who actively engage and consult with the legislative and public administration mechanisms of Cape Town and Pretoria, and with all relevant civil society organisations throughout South Africa and beyond the country’s borders. The team operates in areas that include mine health and safety, sustainable development, skills development, legal issues, legacy issues, environmental management, economics, employment relations, community relations and communications.
A further vital function of the organisation is to represent certain sectors in collective bargaining with organised labour.
Repositioning mining in South Africa The Minerals Council, recognising the industry’s legacies in South Africa, has developed a vision to reposition the mining sector in the eyes of its stakeholders and to act as a primary participant creating an environment that is conducive to shaping policy and legislation in a way that will facilitate a significant increase in real investment in the mining sector by 2030. Such an outcome would be a positive and game-changing catalyst in helping the country achieve its economic growth, development and transformation targets as articulated in the National Development Plan (NDP).
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MINERALS COUNCIL SOUTH AFRICA INTEGRATED ANNUAL REVIEW 2019
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