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Mining Charter provides certainty, concern lingers, says Leon

22nd March 2019

By: Tasneem Bulbulia

Senior Contributing Editor Online

     

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The Broad-Based Socio-Economic Empowerment Charter for the Mining and Minerals Industry 2018, better known as Mining Charter III, came into force on March 1 – almost three years after the publication of the first draft.

This brought to a close more than nearly three years of uncertainty and speculation regarding the nature and content of the final version of South Africa’s third official Mining Charter.

However, in a statement last week, Herbert Smith Freehills partner and cochairperson Peter Leon said that, despite the extensive public participation and negotiation process that preceded the publication of the charter, there were a number of provisions that were a cause for concern.

According to Leon, these included “onerous” re-empowerment obligations for the renewal and transfer of existing mining rights.

He also said the black economic empowerment shareholding top-up requirements for pending applications were troubling.

Moreover, he highlighted the absence of provisions for the amendment of existing mining rights.

Finally, he pointed to “the Minister’s seemingly unlimited ability to review and revise the obligations imposed under the charter from time to time” as another cause for concern.

Edited by Chanel de Bruyn
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor Online

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