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ANA reports that the North West High Court on Friday reserved judgment in a case involving Lonmin’s mining licence.
The Mining Forum of SA’s (MFSA’s) Blessings Ramoba commented: “It was a very complex case, both parties Lonmin and [department of mineral resources] DMR did not comply. What they were arguing about in terms of their technicalities was our departure, they were saying we did not follow [the] departure process. In this case the court did not even take it into consideration because of the main issue of non-compliance.” He went on to state: “We are very hopeful it [judgment] will come in our favour. They agreed that Lonmin did not comply and therefore according to the law, if you did not comply it is very much clear that the minister must take away the licence and the company must go and fix the issues of social and labour plans. When they are done they can go back to operations. In this case what we are asking the court is that the licence must be taken away.” In its court papers, the MFSA claimed that Lonmin failed to build houses for mineworkers and had also failed to build schools, as promised. The MFSA wants Sibanye’s pending takeover of Lonmin to be stopped until the labour social plans have been addressed.
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