this is something we can take pride in but it just makes it even more shocking that we are currently one of the greatest underperformers in attracting investment into our mining sector the reasons for this are well known but you have chosen to remain silent on all the controversial issues that require strong political leadership instead of putting a destructive nationalisation debate to bed and giving assurances that political patronage will have no bearing on the allocation of mining licences you instead came up with a state owned mining company as a panacea for this sector