Amcu's "clarion call": Zuma must convene mining indaba urgently

Addressing reporters at a resort in Rustenburg, Amcu president Joseph Mathunjwa said Zuma had to convene an urgent, all-inclusive mining indaba to review the situation in the embattled sector.

"We make a clarion call to the President of the Republic of South Africa to call a mining indaba on the state of the mining industry," Mathunjwa said, adding that the mining sector is the biggest contributor to the South African economy, "yet it is the worst when it comes to paying workers and improving working conditions."

Mathunjwa said the indaba would have to deal with issues including minimum wages, housing, skills development and a mining victims fund for the sector, TimesLIVE reports.

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