Judge rebukes mines minister for flouting court procedure in charter battle
Mosebenzi Zwane has again disregarded an agreement to lodge an answering affidavit
Fresh from a scathing rebuke from judge Ramarumo Monama for not following court procedure, Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane missed a deadline last week to file an answering affidavit to a Chamber of Mines challenge to the third version of the Mining Charter. Zwane, the first respondent in the chamber’s interdict against the charter, has again disregarded an agreement to lodge an answering affidavit. He missed the July 31 deadline set in an undertaking he had with the chamber to suspend implementation of the charter in exchange for more time to prepare an answering affidavit, pushing the court date into September from July 18. The minister must seek court condonation of a new date to submit an answering affidavit and to explain why he missed the July 31 deadline he had proposed, and which the chamber and department agreed to. "The minister must still file an application for condonation of his late filing of his answering affidavit to the chamber’s application for an urgent ...
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