Poverty among miners a worry

SOUTH Africa is sitting on a ticking time-bomb, and if it does not ask moral and ethical questions regarding the sociopolitical landscape around the mining sector, it will explode. This is according to Bishop Jo Seoka, chairman of the Bench Marks Foundation. He was speaking at the organisation’s fifth annual conference in Joburg yesterday. He said the majority of South Africans were still compromised by inequality, unemployment and poverty. “The new dispensation has not succeeded in eliminating these ills. The gap between the poor and the rich has widened,” he said. – Staff Reporter