ENVIRONMENTAL, HEALTH AND SAFETY AND FOODSTUFFS LEGAL UPDATE REPORT (SOUTH AFRICA) December 2024 To download and / or print this newsletter please click on this link: Monthly SHE and Foodstuffs Legal Newsletter of what happened in December [...]
ENVIRONMENTAL, HEALTH AND SAFETY AND FOODSTUFFS LEGAL UPDATE REPORT (SOUTH AFRICA) SEPTEMBER 2023 To download and / or print this newsletter please click on this link: Monthly SHE and Foodstuffs Legal Newsletter of what happened in September 2023 Dear Clients, Below please find a summary of selected relevant environmental, health and safety and foodstuffs [...]
ENVIRONMENTAL, HEALTH AND SAFETY AND FOODSTUFFS LEGAL UPDATE REPORT (SOUTH AFRICA) March 2023 To download and / or print this newsletter please click on this link: Summary of selected relevant environmental, health and safety and foodstuffs legal [...]
Mining companies are opting for renewable energy because of Eskom’s unreliable supply of electricity. Gold Fields’ South Deep operations was the first to apply for a ministerial deviation to generate 40 megawatts (MW) of solar power at the Westonaria mine in 2017. The mine said it was working to move more operations to daylight hours [...]
ENVIRONMENTAL, HEALTH AND SAFETY AND FOODSTUFFS LEGAL UPDATE REPORT (SOUTH AFRICA), JANUARY 2021 Dear Clients, Below please find a summary of selected relevant environmental, health and safety and foodstuffs legal developments that took place during January 2021. NATIONAL LEGISLATION 1) Standards Act SANS 10400 is the standard which must be read together with the Regulations [...]
Environment minister Barbara Creecy’s decision to allow vastly expanded West Coast beach mining has prompted sharp criticism from environmentalists Appointed at the end of May 2019, Creecy was seen as a new broom, particularly after making a number of decisions that delighted environmentalists and conservationists, such as rejecting plans for a giant new open-pit coal [...]