EDITORIAL: Government digs in and finds a way to effect mining charter

Mine workers are seen under ground at Cullinan mine, near Pretoria in this February 1 2019 fiele photo. REUTERS/SIPHIWE SIBEKO

A suggestion was made by a high- ranking departmental official during a parliamentary committee meeting this week that the charter could be annexed to the act to circumvent the judgment. Sections of the industry feared this would happen when the judgment — hailed as a victory at the time — was handed down.

Importantly, the court judgment gave unqualified recognition to the “once empowered, always empowered” principle that had been an issue of contention between the government and the industry, and which meant that mining companies would not have to top up their BEE shareholding on the sale or transfer of their BEE partner’s shares to retain their BEE status.

I do not even want to touch on illegal mining which is the beneficiary of unrehabilitated land.

So you honestly thought the government will let Mining Charter be relegated to policy? When rehabilitation of the mined land was laissez-faire no mining company rehabilitated the land. People and animals had since fallen to death in these wholes.

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