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13 Feb 2017

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Alternative Mining Indaba 2017 (South Africa)

Declaration of the 8th Alternative Mining Indaba

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...Conscious of the increasing deterioration of the quality of life of communities living in the shadows of mining projects...Concerned with the increasing scale and extent of Illicit Financial Flows [IFFs] from Africa as further demonstrated by the Panama Papers and recent court rulings against major Multinational Corporations (MNCs) and their tax dodging practices which deprive the continent’s resource-rich economies vital investible capital...Hereby call for:

  • We call on our governments to recognise that the economic value of local ownership of mining rights is higher than foreign MNCs... 

  • We encourage communities and their allies to develop alternative environmental impact assessment studies/reports to compare and challenge those prepared by companies...

  • We urge our governments to legislate Corporate Social Responsibility programmes and not view them as philanthropic practices by the private sector...

  • Decriminilisation and regulation of the Artisanal Mining sector...

  • We call on our governments to be transparent and involve the broader nation when negotiating contracts on the extractive sector...

  • We urge companies to recognise that traditional leaders are not community members and therefore they need to carry out proper and thorough consultation. We call on communities to build linkages with strategic key resource professionals such as lawyers and accountants to assist them in their engagement with governments and companies... 

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