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BusinessLive reports that Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane said on Thursday that the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) was not "at war" with Sibanye Gold or AngloGold Ashanti, despite the differences that have been aired in court and comments.
In 2016 AngloGold won a Labour Court case in which the judge agreed that a DMR-ordered safety stoppage at the Kopanang mine was out of proportion to the offence. Sources say Sibanye plans to sue DMR officials in their individual capacities for the way they had implemented a section 54 notice to stop operations because of safety violations. Zwane said: "If someone is approaching the court it means the department is doing something, we are at work to save the lives of people of SA. Our differences should not be taken as people at war with each other. We are not. We are not at war with Sibanye, or AngloGold or any other person. We are engaging to ensure the real beneficiaries of our laws in SA do benefit." The NUM’s Peter Bailey said they would never support any litigation against the DMR in the implementation of section 54 notices, which were intended to save lives and improve safety.
- Read this report by Allan Seccombe in full at BusinessLive
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