SOCIAL AND LABOUR PLAN

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• SOCIAL AND LABOUR PLAN
• Ms B. Mabusela

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OUTLINE

• Objectives of Social and Labour Plan
• Challenges of Social and Labour plan
• Conclusion

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Objectives of the Social and Labour Plan

• Promote employment and advance the
• social and economic welfare of all South
• Africans
• Promote economic growth in the Republic
• Ensure that holders of mining rights
• contribute towards socio-economic
• development and poverty of the areas in
• which they are operating and labour
• sending areas

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CONSTITUTION

• CHAPTER II (BILL OF RIGHTS)
• Refers to various rights
• Section 26 Housing
• Section 27 Healthcare, Food, Water, and Social
• security
• Section 27 (2)
• The State must take reasonable legislative and
  other measures, within the available resources,
  to achieve the progressive realisation of each of
  these rights

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Local economic development

• Purpose
• Change the quality of lives of the people
• Eradicate poverty through sustainable projects
• Address an identified need within a community
• Share the wealth as South Africans

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STAKEHOLDERS

• Relevant stakeholders are not consulted
• Non / minimal participation in the formulation
  and
• review of IDP
• Intention is to assist government in
  implementing
• projects where there are no / limited funds but
  
• applicants provide projects that are adequately
• planned and budgeted for
• Collaboration and cooperation is crucial to
  avoid
• e.g. duplication of efforts

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HRD challenges

• Targets provided not specific on race and gender
• Women at the mine vs women in mining
• No mentorship for JV and service providers
• Lot of training without looking at the end
  product i.e placement-undermines the objectives
  of the SDA

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Downscaling and Retrenchment challenges

• Reactive vs Proactive
• Lessons learned during the Gold Crisis era not
  taken into cognizance
• Job losses still not reported on time to allow
  proper planning for management thereof
• Future Forum reduced to a retrenchment tool
• Measures to save jobs not spelled out in the
  plans- Little effort towards the realization of
  the concept

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Financial Provision Challenges

• The provision in many instances
• does not tally with the plan
• The amount provided in the SLP
• does not link with what is on the
• cash flow-leads to replacing approved
• projects.
• Provision for re-skilling of employees at
• the time of retrenchment treated as
• optional

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Conclusion

• The MPRDA is a better piece of legislation than
  Minerals Act, 1991,
• The MPRDA has rejuvenated the mining industry,
• There is still a long way to go.
• SA belongs to all who live in it.

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