The directors of Pan African Resources are at their wits’ end with disruption caused by 30 people at the site of the R1.7bn Elikhulu tailings project. They are particularly frustrated with a lack of law enforcement despite violations of a court interdict, demonstrating difficulties mining companies face in SA. While positive about the efficiency with which the project secured permits from the departments of mineral resources and water affairs, Pan African CE Cobus Loots expressed exasperation about the failure of the police to enforce the interdict granted last Friday to stop the group of 30 — whose names were known — blocking access to the site near Evander in Mpumalanga and making death threats to contractors on site. Loots said that the small group, which had been stoking tension for the past fortnight, had demanded an on-site office at the Elikhulu project and for procurement activities to be channelled through them. Procurement is an enormously lucrative and influential functio...
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