Mineral minister ordered to renew Gcwihaba licence :: Mmegi Online

The High Court in Maun has ordered and directed the Minister of Minerals and Energy, Lefoko Moagi to renew, within 14 days, Gcwihaba Resources (PTY) Ltd’s prospecting licence (020/2018). In a 110-page ruling, Justice Bugalo Maripe on December 15 described the decision by the minister to reject the application for the renewal of the company prospecting license as illegal, unreasonable and or irrational.

Justice Maripe further ordered that the renewal should be “subject only to justifiable safeguards necessary for the protection of the heritage area.

Such safeguards are not to include any further demand for reduction or shifting of the license area or its coordination.” The court also ordered that following renewal, the minister must align the effective dates of contiguous licenses PL 021 – 126/ 2018 with that of the renewed license.

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