Digging deep

Digging deep

Digitalisation and automation will help with health and safety issues in South Africa’s mining industry. (Russell Scott, Tyrone Bradley/Red Bull Content Pool & Anglo American) “I don’t believe that robots are just going to eat up people’s jobs,” says University of Pretoria vice-chancellor Professor Tawana Kupe, quoted in a report by McKinsey & Company that will be referenced throughout this article. “Instead, there can be a complementary relationship. Technology can free people from routine, repetitive work and enable them to take on higher-level work, decision-making and critical thinking.”

During a panel titled Digitised Mining: The Rise of the Machines at […]

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