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Environmental and Mining / Legal Updates

MINERAL AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT ACT (28/2002), AS AMENDED: REVIEWED BROAD BASED BLACK-ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT CHARTER FOR THE SOUTH AFRICAN MINING AND MINERALS INDUSTRY, 2016

Posted 20 July 2017

The Minister of Mineral Resources has published the Reviewed Broad Based Black-Economic Empowerment Charter (the Mining Charter) of the South African Mining and Minerals Industry, 2016 (Reviewed Mining Charter, 2017).

The Mining Charter has since been suspended on 14 July 2017 pending the outcome of an interdict lodged against it.

NATIONAL WATER ACT (36/1998): LIFTING OF WATER RESTRICTIONS FOR VARIOUS STAND-ALONE DAMS AND SYSTEMS IN LIMPOPO, MPUMALANGA, NORTH WEST AND FREE STATE

NATIONAL FORESTS ACT (84/1998): INVITATION TO SUBMIT WRITTEN COMMENTS ON THE PROPOSED LIST OF PARTICULAR TREES AND PARTICULAR GROUPS OF TREES "CHAMPION TREES" UNDER SECTION 12(1)(A) AND (B) OF THE ACT