the adoption of quotas in south africa was part of broader measures intended by the government to rectify injustices in the past by helping those who have historically been at a disadvantage including coloured mixedrace south africans and women according to a pwc report on women in mining a south africa firm leads the way in the number of female senior executives per cent in the top listed mining companies worldwide by comparison the senior executive percentages for the five companies immediately following the south african leader were between and per cent pwc proponents of wegeb claim that unlike provisions under mining charters which allow extractive industry companies to renew their licences when they did not meet gender quotas the new bill will mandate a per cent quota for women and stiff penalties for organizations that fail to comply beyond differences between mining and other industries