Mines exploit child labour in Africa and the world is doing little about it. This is the clear message from mining entrepreneur Bridgette Radebe, executive chairperson of Mmakau Mining, after the inaugural United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) breakfast round table, in the shadow of Table Mountain, running alongside the Mining Indaba. “I don’t want my daughter, nephew and nieces to stand up at my age and say we didn’t do enough,” says Radebe... Social impacts such as poor living conditions, forced labour in unregulated mining and sexual exploitation remain prevalent issues according to Lindiwe Mokate, Commissioner of the South African Human Rights Commission... "...We have complaints from schools failing to be relocated, to environmental degradation of toxic water in Gauteng. Closed mines have caused houses to cracker and sink holes where children have drowned...,” says Mokate.