South Africa | Court allows challenge to mining proposal in Mabola PA to continue
Coal mining in the Mabola Protected Area would have a devastating effect on the clean water supply to millions of people in Gauteng, other parts of South Africa and beyond for decades to come, a coalition of civil society organisations is arguing in the High Court in Pretoria.
The application by the coalition, represented by the Centre for Environmental Rights, aimed at stopping Atha-Africa Ventures (Atha) from mining in the protected environment outside Wakkerstroom in Mpumalanga, proceeded yesterday.