NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION NUMBER 732
DATE OF PUBLICATION IN INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 7 MARCH 2011
(INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER NUMBER 4)
732. Mr P D Dexter (Cope) to ask the Minister of Mineral Resources:
Whether her department had properly applied the criteria with regard
to the correctness of a certain company (name furnished) being (a) a
new emerging and (b) an empowered mining company with a track record,
adequate finance and inclusion of many black citizens who did not
previously enjoy any broad-based economic empowerment opportunity; if
not, why not; if so, what were its findings in each case?
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REPLY
MPRDA regulates how applications are lodged with the department
therefore all companies must comply with law as it stands