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Director: Mineral Development, Gauteng Region and Another v Save the Vaal Environment and Others (133/98) [1999] ZASCA 9; [1999] 2 All SA 381 (A) (12 March 1999).

Pays/Territoire
Afrique du Sud
Type de cour
Nationale - cour supérieure
Date
Mar 12, 1999
Source
UNEP, InforMEA
Nom du tribunal
Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa
Siège de la cour
Bloemfontein
Juge
Mahomed C., Howie, Marais, Olivier, Madlanga A.
Numéro de référence
Case No. 133 /98
Langue
Anglais
Sujet
Eau, Environnement gén., Ressources minérales, Espèces sauvages et écosystèmes
Résumé

This is an appeal against a judgment of Cassim AJ in an opposed application in the High Court of South Africa, Witwatersrand Local Division, leave to appeal having been granted by the Court a quo. The appeal raises the question whether interested parties, wishing to oppose an application by the holder of mineral rights for a mining licence in terms of s 9 of the Minerals Act 50 of 1991 ('the Act'), are entitled to raise environmental objections and be heard by the first appellant, who is the official designated to grant or refuse such licence ('the Director'). In the present case, the Director, taking the view that consideration of such objections would be premature at that stage, refused the respondents a hearing. He was successfully taken on review. The appeal is aimed at reversing the outcome of that review. The respondents appeal was dismissed by the judge.

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