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- Title
Community development at the coal face: networks and sustainability among artisanal mining communities in Indwe, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.
- Authors
Nel, Etienne; Binns, Tony; Gibb, Matthew
- Abstract
Artisanal, or small-scale mining, is widely recognised as a key, but often controversial, survival strategy adopted by low-income communities in the global South. This paper examines how members of one community in South Africa, that of Indwe, in a desperate effort to create self-employment, have initiated micro-level coal-mining enterprises, which have had the downstream effect of supporting local transportation and brick-making operations. Government concerns over the legality of these activities overlie the recent depletion of the local resource and the involvement of a mining corporate in the region. In terms of the way forward, the paper explores the uneasy compromise which has emerged between the corporate's social responsibility initiatives and the suspicions of the artisanal miners.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; INDWE (South Africa); COAL mining; SOCIAL responsibility of business; SOUTH Africa economic development; SOUTH African economy; INFORMAL sector; TWENTY-first century; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Geographical Journal, 2014, Vol 180, Issue 2, p175
- ISSN
0016-7398
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1111/geoj.12022