The growing use of surveillance technologies, drones and wearables have serious implications for employees’ and individuals’ rights – to privacy, for one – which civil society and the private sector have yet to fully explore, diversified major Anglo American’s international, government and sustainability relations group head Froydis Cameron-Johansson has said. Speaking during a Human Rights Dialogue hosted by the Minerals Council South Africa on March 17, she outlined themes and trends that had emerged post-Covid, including the restriction of civic freedoms, violence and harassment, low-carbon transition risks, corporate accountability and litigation, increasing expectations, labour rights, and technology and human rights.
The council said consecutive tariff increases of about 26%, 20% and 9% over three years were simply unsustainable not only for the mining industry but the country as well.
Minerals Council South Africa on Thursday endorsed the recommendations of the first report of the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture. The Minerals Council said these recommendations, aimed at preventing endemic and corrosive corruption in organs of the state and within the private sector, be speedily implemented.
The gold sector has to date recorded the highest number of fatalities this year, a total of 23, followed by the platinum sector, 14, compared to the previous year.