Optimum Coal Mine’s new curator will have their work cut out as a battle rages for control of the Gupta-linked business.
Peter Van Den Steen, who resigned last month after death threats, filed his fifth report at the Pretoria high court last week amid litigation to forfeit the mine to the state; criticism by Liberty Coal, which plans to buy the mine; Richards Bay Coal Terminal’s withdrawal of the company’s export allocation; and tensions with business rescue practitioners regarding mini-pit contractors operating at the mine...
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