Toekoms van die mynboubedryf in Suid-Afrika

Abstract

This address stresses the fact that South Africa is endowed with more mineral resources per area unit than any other country in the world; that up to now we have made good use of these resources and that in the future the world will turn increasingly to South Africa to supply its insatiable needs of raw materials. Attention is drawn, however, to a number of problems facing the mining industry, and methods are proposed by which these problems may be overcome in order that we may achieve our objectives, one of which is to develop our principal asset - our people - to such a level of technological and managerial proficiency that South Africa will have an advantage in the international economy.