High Court sets aside suspension of Bapo Ba Mogale council members
THE North West High Court has reviewed and set aside the suspension of two elected members of the Bapo Ba Mogale Traditional Council‚ calling the decision to dismiss them more than two years ago "irrational and procedurally unfair".Abbey Mafate and Tshepo Maakane are leading critics of the Traditional Council’s 2014 deal with Lonmin to swap a 40-year-old right to royalties from platinum mining on Bapo land for shares in the company and R100m in cash.Acting Judge TJ Djaje ordered on Thursday that Mafate and Maakane should be reinstated as members of the council and paid the salaries they would have earned since their suspension in 2014.READ THIS: Power and local trustsThe Bapo host Lonmin’s flagship Marikana mine‚ where 34 striking miners were massacred by police on August 16 2012.The royalty swap‚ which was struck on terms that remain largely secret‚ was concluded without the community consultation required in terms of customary law or in terms of the Interim Protection of Informal...
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