Instead of building bridges and mending the trust deficit, the minister`s consultations have alienated communities writes Christopher Rutledge.
The systemic exclusion of communities is based on a rather simple semantic discursive tone, writes Christopher Rutledge.
As mining-affected communities, we have always raised our concerns about the corruptive, divisive and patronising nature of mining development in our country.
So in contrast to the Western paradigm that suggests we need grand and glorious leaders; perhaps we need fewer leaders and more inclusive processes.
Finance minister's medium-term budget meant very little to those it should have benefited, writes Christopher Rutledge
Dispossession of communities is a systemic crisis resulting from mechanisms meant to overcome inequality, writes Christopher Rutledge.
Most of the points in government's deal over mining are designed to protect shareholder profits, writes Christopher Rutledge.
The Ruth First Lecture was a slap in the face of the true bearers of racial and economic inequality, says Christopher Rutledge.
The mining sector needs urgent structural change to enable small-scale miners, writes Christopher Rutledge.
Christopher Rutledge writes that the driving focus of the current mining "crisis" is not jobs.
With a focus on profits and not mining’s legacy, South Africa will continue to face crises, writes Christopher Rutledge.
South Africa emerged from the moral morass of apartheid as the ethical and moral beacon of a new world order.
Twenty years after the dawn of democracy, black Africans are still not afforded their rightful place in the making of laws and their administration.