Saftu says sections of SA’s mineral wealth remain controlled through private accumulation [SOUND]

# The South African Federation of Trade Unions says more than three decades after apartheid, enormous sections of South Africa’s mineral wealth remain controlled according to the logic of private accumulation. Saftu’s Asive Dyani says mining communities frequently remain poor while wealth extracted from beneath their feet flows to corporations, shareholders and financial markets. She says South Africa cannot remain an economy that digs minerals from the ground, exports them in raw or insufficiently beneficiated form and then imports manufactured goods at enormous cost: