by Warren Beech | Nov 4, 2025 | Employment, Health and Safety, Mining, News
In last week’s Top Tip Tuesday we addressed the importance of the exercise of the “stop work authority” on health and safety grounds to prevent workplace injuries and fatal accidents. We discussed the judgment handed down in the matter of National Union of...
by Mbuyi Katumba | Sep 5, 2025 | Mining, News
BACKGROUND The illegal mining pandemic in South Africa, and the African continent at large, which is often blended with artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM), presents a severe threat to the country’s formal mining sector, economic stability, and security. In South...
by Melanie Hart | Sep 4, 2025 | Employment, News
The Minister of Employment and Labour has published and gazetted a Code of Practice on Dismissals, in terms of Section 203(2A) of the Labour Relations Act, which takes effect from date of publication, being 04 September 2025. The Code repeals Schedule 8 of the Code of...
by Warren Beech | Jul 31, 2025 | Environmental, News
On 14 July 2025 the High Court of South Africa, Gauteng Division, Pretoria handed down judgment under case number 9952/2019 in the matter between Petrus Johannes Barnard & Others v The Minister of Environmental Affairs and Others (Barnard Judgment). Barnard...
by Warren Beech | May 29, 2025 | Mining, News
Introduction Following the publication of the Mine Health and Safety Amendment Bill in October 2024, the last few weeks have been extremely eventful in the mining industry, with the publication of proposed changes to several environmental laws including in relation to...
by Warren Beech | May 21, 2025 | Environmental, News
On 16 May 2025, the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (Minister) published the Draft National Dust Control amendment Regulations (Proposed Regulations) in terms of Sections 32, 53(o) as read with Sections 55(3), 56 and 57 of the National...
