Mining Review discusses “The good and bad of mining skills development” in South Africa

Not a week passes without coming across some dramatic reference to the shortage of skills in South Africa. The latest I have just read is a prediction that South Africa will go through the same social upheaval taking place in some of Africa’s Mediterranean rim countries. This is predicted, in part, because of an exodus from the country of professionally skilled individuals of all ethnicities.

But that is not the complete picture. Recently I conducted an interview with Professor Fred Cawood, the head of South Africa’s largest mining school, the Witwatersrand School of Mining. He gave me some interesting data on the education of mining engineers in South Africa and globally.