State diamond mining company Alexkor is challenging a compliance notice issued by the environment department over its Namaqualand beach mining operations
State capture is often cited as the the reason for the department’s ongoing failures, but its problems run far deeper
The SIU alleges fraud and graft in state mining company’s procurement
Illegal miners, who have been fighting to get mining permits, risk arrest and even death in confrontations between the police and security firms
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“I’m willing to take a bullet” says Northern Cape natives who claim the land, and its diamonds, belong to them.
Scarlet Sky Investments had no cutting or polishing factory, no licence to buy rough diamonds, no licence to sell rough diamonds, no licence to cut and polish rough diamonds, no diamond trading house licence and no black economic empowerment certificate, which it only acquired after being awarded the tender
In a reply sent to MPs last week, Minister Pravin Gordhan says an increase in fuel prices above budgeted levels impacted most state-owned entities
SAA, Alexkor and Denel have been singled out in a Budget Review document for poor performance.
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/ 22 November 2007
De Beers Consolidated Mines, the South African arm of diamond giant De Beers, on Thursday said it had agreed to sell the Cullinan Diamond Mine as a going concern to the Petra Diamonds Cullinan Consortium for a consideration of R1-billion payable in cash.
A settlement has been reached on the Richtersveld community’s troubled land-restitution deal, lawyers said on Monday. They said the settlement would be presented to Land Claims Court Judge Antonie Geldenhuys on Tuesday morning. ”We’ve settled,” said Rudolph Jansen, national director of Lawyers for Human Rights.
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/ 20 September 2007
A group of Richtersveld residents is to challenge a settlement agreement with the government when the document goes before the Land Claims Court in Cape Town next week for ratification. The agreement followed a 10-year court battle by the Richtersvelders for the restoration of land taken by the state for diamonds mining.