Mining rights:“Whose right is it Anyway?”

According to the preamble to The Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, no 28 of 2002 (MPRDA): “Acknowledging that South Africa’s mineral and petroleum resources belong to the nation and that the state is the custodian thereof”. This leaves a safety vacuum that ensures no prescribed ownership of the value-saturated soils. As much as mining…...

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Vuruscha Shearer