Can Africa learn from Chile's experience?

Indeed African countries must learn from what has Happened in Chile. This is a wake up call we countries in Africa should adhere to their corporate responsibilities for there is a need to take good care of the workers besides making profit kudos to Chile this is a learning platform for Africa.

It's refreshing to see the Chilean miners being brought to safety. They happen to have been working for an organised company. The lessons will be appropriate for the mining companies such as Anglogold Ashanti. They can learn lessons that will go a long to improve the safety standards for their workers. Can the same thing be said about the galamsey miners all over Africa? They get buried every time without their host government even noticing. As long as unemployment reigns among the youth, precautions about safety will be thrown to the wind. No safety concerns for the hopeless.

Like Chile, not many African countries are prepared for this kind of miracle in the minig industry. The major lesson associated with this event is concern of the state for its people. I hope Africans leaders, especially mine owners will not wait until people are trapped before thinking about safety measures. Thanks to the Chilian Government. [Personal details removed by Moderator]

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[Personal details removed by Moderator] This is realy avery good example where our African countries should learn from.

Such measures should always be put in place so as to plan for this kind of occurances.

Big ups Chileans for having such awonderful plan and rescuing the miners.

I just hope that other countries will emulate you and put in place such strategies to combat such occurances particularly the African countries.

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Africa and in fact other countries across the world need to learn something from the Chileans if indeed they would want posterity to judge them correctly in future. The Chileans i guess invested heavily on safety of its mining sector and the benefits are what they are ripping now.
African leaders need to take safety measures in all aspects of its endeavors so that generations yet unborn could also one day benefit. But would our African leaders yield to this future demands? I would be more than happy if they did!

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. The African people should please wake up and let's do what we have to do so that we can do what we want to do. We are behind, we should not let other people think for us, let think for our self. Example... Growning food, I think that shouldn't be a big problem but we seems not to have the result to this issue.

Of course Africa takes mine health and safety seriously. The three deepest mines in the world is in Africa (TauTona reaches 3.9km underground), and we wouldn't be able to keep operating those mines if we if we didn't take the necessary precautions. Of course, the deeper the mine is, the higher the risk and the lesser the chance to launch a swift and efficient rescue attempt in the case of such a disaster or accident.
I am very glad that all 33 of the trapped Chilean miners have been freed, and I am very glad that it was technically possible to achieve the rescue.
Yet, the responsibility is up to the company operating the mine, and the onus is on Africa to regulate mine health and safety in those mines.
Illegal mining is the blight on mine safety in Africa.

Great to see the Chilean miners out - fantastic!

If safety were taken more seriously, though this sort of rescue need not happen. In South Africa it's rigorously applied and because of this accidents are fairly rare.

Safety makes good business sense as well as keeping people safe.

chile in fact learned from africa.When the Chilean government first called for help, Murray & Roberts had the first drill on sight.Murray & Roberts is a South African engineering, contracting and construction services company.South African is a leader in underground mining.

Chile's effort during the past weeks has definitely been an inspiration to Africa. It has demonstrated that human life surpasses all else.We need to learn from the Chilean experience and place necessary measures in place..
To watch the miners rescued and reunited with their families was moving.

The Nigerian "government" could not even provide a single piece of mechanical equipment to assist the rescue effort following a plane crash that occurred only a few years back. It had to rely on a private, foreign-owned construction firm that had volunteered to clear a route to the crash site. The only response we got from our "ministers" were the usual torrents of verbose cliches aimed at diverting critical attention from their complete lack of care.

We remain grateful to the Lord Almighty that a more serious tragedy hasn't yet afflicted us, for I hate to imagine how helpless our people would be.

The lesson that we as Africans need to learn from the Chile inccidence is the love and care for our citizens. If you love and care for your citizens, no amount of cash can deter ypu from helping to see them been saved from danger as it was with the Chilean Miners.

The next thing to learn is, insituting measures that will avoid such accident and creating a situation where if an accident occurs, the means of rescuring the vitims could be easier.