Miller announced The Divine Feminine Tour on August 24, 2016.
Miller performed the album on a concert special for Audience Network, which aired on September 30, 2016, and included guest appearances from Ariana Grande and CeeLo Green. The Divine Feminine was released worldwide by Warner Bros. In May 2018, singer Ariana Grande, Miller's girlfriend at the time of the album's release, denied a claim that the entire album was about her, but said the track "Cinderella" was. According to Miller, the album was not just about romantic love, but also about learning from women throughout his life and what those experiences meant to him. He initially intended The Divine Feminine to be an EP, but changed it to a full-length album to allow himself to be more vulnerable. Van der Woude says modernisation is imperative to extend the life of mines, or else around 200,000 jobs could be lost.Miller began working on The Divine Feminine immediately after completing his previous studio album GO:OD AM (2015), wanting to explore the emotion of love. so that they can consider the outcomes that are being achieved and also identify the possible opportunities and also challenges for their members.Ĭontrary to what many people believe, that this is a job loss issue, the work we've done has shown that if we continue the business as usual and don't modernise. The unions represent the most vulnerable amongst the employees in the industry so it is very important for us to get their perspective, their inputs into the modernisation work that's being done. It's absolutely critically important that the unions are meaningfully involved in the Mandela Mining Precinct through which we are championing the modernisation. Van der Woude says it's exactly because of this effect that the unions must be part of the conversation. "So much of modernisation, by its very nature, puts jobs at risk?" Whitfield asks what exactly they want to achieve by getting trade unions around the table when it comes to the discussion of modernisation. but today we could come together and celebrate that we are united in our purpose to reimagine what the South African mining industry is all about. We've been on this journey for six years now with plenty of twists, turns, setbacks rapids. RblYTGJHst- Minerals Council South Africa October 26, 2021īruce Whitfield interviews Sietse van der Woude, Senior Executive of Modernisation and Safety at the Minerals Council. Minerals Council lauds organised labour’s inclusion in mining modernisation.
Minerals Council President Nolitha Fakude and Dr Thulani Dlamini, CEO of CSIR, sign an historic agreement to include 5 unions in the Mandela Mining Precinct /bpkCxTe5lV- Allan Seccombe October 26, 2021
Sietse van der Woude, Senior Executive: Modernisation and Safety - Minerals Council SA This is historic in that it is the first time that organised labour, as a critical stakeholder in the modernisation journey, will actively participate in research, development and innovation (RDI) initiatives in SA. We are incredibly pleased that five trade unions (Amcu, NUM, Numsa, Solidarity and Uasa) have agreed to come onboard. The Council lauded the public-private partnership the Mandela Mining Precinct "for ensuring all stakeholders participate in its research and development planning for a modernised mining industry by including five unions for inputs at a strategic and policy level." South Africa's Minerals Council announced a groundbreaking agreement between mining employers and unions on Tuesday.