SAFETY STOPPAGE CASE
Zwane moves to assure gold miners department not at war with them
Sources say Sibanye plans to serve summonses within weeks
The Department of Mineral Resources was not "at war" with Sibanye Gold or AngloGold Ashanti, despite the differences that have been aired in court and comments, Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane said on Thursday. Acting chief inspector of mines Xolile Mbonambi said at a briefing to release safety statistics for 2016 that the department had not yet received details of an action by Sibanye to sue department officials in their individual capacities for the way they had implemented the section 54 notice to stop operations because of safety violations. In 2016 AngloGold won a case before the Labour Court in which Judge Andre van Niekerk agreed with the company that the safety stoppage ordered at the Kopanang mine was out of proportion to the offence and the Mine Health and Safety Act.
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