RUSTENBURG - The North West High Court on Friday, reserved judgment in a case involving Lonmin's mining licence, the Mining Forum of South Africa (MFSA) said on Friday.
"It was a very complex case, both parties Lonmin and [department of mineral resources] DMR did not comply, what they were arguing about in terms of their technicalities was our departure, they were saying we did not follow [the] departure process. In this case the court did not even take it into consideration because of the main issue of non compliance," said president Blessings Ramoba.
"We are very hopeful it [judgment] will come on our favour. They agreed that Lonmin did not comply and therefore according to the law, if you did not comply it is very much clear that the minister must take away the licence and the company must go and fixed the issues of social and labour plans,
