Let Mining Grow. Let South Africa Grow.

Mining in South Africa is not just another sector. It is one of the foundations of our economy. It brings in export earnings. It attracts investment. It supports jobs. It drives infrastructure. It generates taxes and royalties. It creates the conditions for wider growth far beyond the mine gate.

Let Mining Grow. Let South Africa Grow.

When mining succeeds, South Africa succeeds.

But for too long, South Africa’s mining laws have worked against mining growth.

Instead of creating certainty, they create delay.
Instead of encouraging investment, they drive it away.
Instead of rewarding production, innovation, and job creation, they empower politicians, bureaucrats, and connected insiders to control, obstruct, and extract.

The result is plain to see: less exploration, less investment, fewer new projects, fewer jobs, and a weaker economy.

South Africa is sitting on extraordinary mineral wealth. Yet bad policy has stopped us from turning that wealth into broad-based prosperity.

Enough is enough. It’s time to build #WhatSACanBe.

The IRR’s Fairness, Growth, and Jobs in Mining Bill

This Bill is about far more than mining law. It is about helping to restore one of South Africa’s most important growth engines.

Let Mining Grow. Let South Africa Grow.

When mining succeeds, South Africa succeeds.

But for too long, South Africa’s mining laws have worked against mining growth.

Instead of creating certainty, they create delay.
Instead of encouraging investment, they drive it away.
Instead of rewarding production, innovation, and job creation, they empower politicians, bureaucrats, and connected insiders to control, obstruct, and extract.

The result is plain to see: less exploration, less investment, fewer new projects, fewer jobs, and a weaker economy.

South Africa is sitting on extraordinary mineral wealth. Yet bad policy has stopped us from turning that wealth into broad-based prosperity.

Enough is enough. It’s time to build #WhatSACanBe.

The IRR’s Fairness, Growth, and Jobs in Mining Bill

This Bill is about far more than mining law. It is about helping to restore one of South Africa’s most important growth engines.

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It would:

Bring back certainty for investors – secure mining rights, clear property protections, and fixed rules over the life of a mine.

Cut political discretion and red tape – objective licensing, firm deadlines, deemed approval where the State delays, and fewer opportunities for obstruction and rent-seeking.

End race-based mining rules – no more destructive racial compulsion and insider enrichment dressed up as empowerment.

Replace fake empowerment with real empowerment – a non-racial Economic Empowerment for the Disadvantaged (EED) model that rewards investment, jobs, skills, innovation, safety, and direct upliftment.

Unlock growth, jobs, and exports – by making South Africa a more attractive place to explore, invest, mine, and expand.

Fight corruption – through transparency, written reasons for decisions, a public cadastre, and anti-corruption safeguards that make it harder to rig outcomes.

Support safer, more modern mines – by encouraging mechanisation, innovation, and rational safety enforcement.

Protect the environment credibly – with proper closure rules, realistic rehabilitation obligations, and clear standards that protect nature without destroying investment.

This is not a Bill for mining companies alone.

It is a Bill for every South African who wants a faster-growing economy.
For every worker who needs more jobs and better opportunities.
For every family that depends on a stronger economy to build a better life.
For every community that needs growth instead of stagnation.
For every citizen tired of watching South Africa underperform while its potential lies buried in the ground.

A country that cannot get mining right will struggle to get growth right.

Your support for the Fairness, Growth, and Jobs in Mining Bill makes a real and immediate difference.

Every signature helps build momentum for reform. The more South Africans who support this Bill, the stronger the case for replacing decline, delay, and political discretion with growth, investment, and opportunity.

🚨 The people who benefit from the current system of confusion, delay, and insider dealing want this Bill to fail. You must not let them win. Team #WhatSACanBe is on your side in this fight.

Sign the petition now — help unlock mining growth, create jobs, and build a freer, fairer, more prosperous South Africa.

Let Mining Grow. Let South Africa Grow.

When mining succeeds, South Africa succeeds.

But for too long, South Africa’s mining laws have worked against mining growth.

Instead of creating certainty, they create delay.
Instead of encouraging investment, they drive it away.
Instead of rewarding production, innovation, and job creation, they empower politicians, bureaucrats, and connected insiders to control, obstruct, and extract.

The result is plain to see: less exploration, less investment, fewer new projects, fewer jobs, and a weaker economy.

South Africa is sitting on extraordinary mineral wealth. Yet bad policy has stopped us from turning that wealth into broad-based prosperity.

Enough is enough. It’s time to build #WhatSACanBe.

The IRR’s Fairness, Growth, and Jobs in Mining Bill

This Bill is about far more than mining law. It is about helping to restore one of South Africa’s most important growth engines.

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I support the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Bill and agree to receiving further information

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Why Sign?

📌 Support growth where it matters most – Mining is one of South Africa’s core economic sectors. If it grows, the country grows.

📌 Back real reform – Support a mining system based on certainty, transparency, investment, and non-racial opportunity.

📌 Help create jobs and expand opportunity – A stronger mining sector can help drive broader economic growth across South Africa.

What Happens After You Sign?

✅ Your name will be added to the growing list of South Africans backing #WhatSACanBe.

✅ You’ll receive updates and action steps to help build support for real mining reform.

✅ You’ll be part of a movement fighting for growth, jobs, investment, and a better future.

FAQs

❔Is this petition affiliated with a political party?
No. This is a values-based campaign to unite South Africans around freedom, growth, investment, and non-racial opportunity. #WhatSACanBe is a project of the IRR.

❔Why focus on mining?
Because mining remains one of South Africa’s core economic sectors. It is central to export earnings, investment, employment, and fiscal strength. If mining is held back by bad law and bad policy, the whole country loses. The Bill’s stated purpose is to restore South Africa as a competitive mining jurisdiction capable of attracting long-term investment, reviving exploration, and supporting employment, safety, environmental performance, and growth.

❔What does this Bill actually change?
It would repeal the current custodianship-based, discretionary, race-driven mining regime and replace it with a property-based, transparent, objective, and time-bound system for mining rights.

❔What is EED?
EED stands for Economic Empowerment for the Disadvantaged. It is a non-racial model that rewards measurable contributions to investment, employment, skills development, innovation, safety, environmental performance, and direct upliftment.

❔How will my information be used?
Your data is secure. We’ll only use your email to send you important updates and information about #WhatSACanBe and ways to get involved.

❔Can I share this petition?
Yes. The more South Africans sign, the stronger the message. Share this page on social media and help build the movement.
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