The government has backtracked on the immediate implementation of the contentious Mining Charter, a move welcomed by the Chamber of Mines on Friday. The chamber said in a statement that Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane and his department had given a written undertaking not to implement or apply the provisions of the 2017 reviewed charter, pending judgment in the urgent interdict application brought by the chamber. “The minister has furthermore undertaken that, in the event of any breach of the above undertaking, the chamber can set the urgent interdict application down for hearing on 48 hours’ notice to the minister,” the chamber said in a statement. Based on this undertaking, the chamber has acceded to the department’s request for extra time to prepare its answering affidavit to the interdict application and for the hearing to take place on a later date. The hearing was scheduled for Tuesday July 18; the parties have now asked the deputy judge president of the High Court ...
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