The mining charter has entered the home straight, at last
The final reviewed mining charter will be published next month, after a long process of consultations, the Department of Mineral Resources’ deputy director-general for mineral policy and promotion, Mosa Mabuza, said Wednesday. The industry will welcome the gazetting of the final charter, as it ends the uncertainty over the legislative framework governing the industry, after delays in finalising the charter and court action over the principle of once empowered, always empowered. Mabuza said some significant changes had been made to the original draft, which was gazetted in April for public comment with a further four-week consultation process being conducted in July. The final version was “materially different” from the original draft and took into account submissions made, Mabuza told Parliament’s mineral resources portfolio committee in a briefing on Wednesday. Final consultations were taking place with communities and traditional authorities, he said. In total 60 substantive submi...
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