Bleak Christmas for Mowana�s forgotten workers
Friday, December 04, 2015
The Cuprum Curse, or the tendency by fledgling copper mines to collapse due to the mineral’s inherently fickle price, has visited African Copper’s Mowana Mine, nine months after erasing 800 jobs at Boseto Mine in Ngamiland.
With copper prices at six year lows and 28 percent down in the year to date, smaller, younger mines, known as juniors, have been unable to withstand the knock on their books, resulting in first, Boseto and then Mowana’s closure.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...