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July 27, 2009
NGOs helping world tribunal to uphold human rights in SA mining legislation
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) - Four non-governmental organisations (NGOs) had joined together in seeking to assist the international arbitration tribunal in interpreting the relevant South African mining legislation in light of the country's constitutional and international human rights obligations, Wits University's Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) said on Monday.
Lodging a public-interest intervention request in the case of Piero Foresti, Laura de Carli and others versus the Republic of South Africa, a coalition of NGOs, including CALS, said that a group of European investors' claimed that the South African government had taken away their mineral rights without providing adequate compensation, prompting an action that could have "enormous ramifications for the millions of people left marginalised by the policies of the apartheid era, as well as for South Africa's mining industry".
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Posted by StaffWriter at July 27, 2009 9:53 AM