Increase the benefit to the country of our mineral resources by;

Giving clear certainty over property rights (the right to mine) Any kind of discussion on mining, or any mining related beneficiation including that of the manufacturing of jewelry in south Africa brings irrefutably to the open the legacy of the dispossession of land. gems are discovered by people and they then extract them from the ground on the land.so as to who really owns the land and its products has always been what everyone fought about, it became the source of conflict.

Those conflicts and struggles of the dispossession of land and its ownership goes back to the pre-colonial era, with the colonial era which includes the Apartheid years , where indigenous people such as the koi and san , waged a fight against land dispossession.

It has been 101 years since the promulgation of the Natives Land Act of 1913 which saw blacks being forcefully removed away from commercial land of their birth to the outskirts of the country where they were meant to die without enjoying the benefits of owning own mother land. (Deputy Minister Hlengiwe Mkhize [DMHM], 2013) South Africans have been denied the benefits resulting from mining and mining related activities done on the land that they were removed from. they were denied ownership and benefit except they acted as “cannon fodder” for the supply of cheap labor.

Government extended normal labor laws and labor rights to mining.thanks to the dawn of democracy it ended the residential restrictions on Africans that shaped migrant labor. Revenues from taxes the democratic government levy on precious stones and metals production are being used to improve the living conditions for South Africans. A million new houses were built. Before 1994 only half of Africans had electricity, and today, three quarters have electricity. Mining resources have always been the driving force of our economic growth, the government made a billion rand investment on schools and hospitals.