Business Report writes that Re-Action Consulting, a social enterprise company focused on providing health solutions including HIV/Aids testing, has approached the high court for an application to liquidate Optimum Coal.
This comes after the mine’s failure to settle a R4 million debt for the construction of a public health clinic in Hendrina, Mpumalanga. In the founding affidavit, it was indicated that by Sunday last week the Gupta family-owned Optimum Coal had not handed over the 24-hour primary health clinic, the facilities at which include a maternity wing and emergency medical service, to the Mpumalanga health department due to the lack of payment. Optimum’s mining rights are dependent on fulfilling its social and labour commitments in terms of the Mining Charter, part of which are completion of the clinic project. By failing to pay for the new clinic, Optimum is at risk of losing its mining rights. The application will apparently be heard on 17 January.
- Read this report by Dineo Faku in full at Business Report
- Read too, Gupta company fails to pay R4.2m bill for clinic, at News24
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