Programme News
8 September 2015
(News)
Attorney for rights group Lawyers for Human Rights, Louise du Plessis, talked about a test case that is heading to court about the protection of tenants' rights in the event of an eviction order.
7 September 2015
(News)
The North West High Court in Mahikeng has ordered the Pilanesberg Platinum Mines to stop its operations on Wilgespruit 2JQ farm, where community members have resisted payments to move and make way for mining.
Members of the Lesethleng Village Community, represented by lawyers for human rights, approached the high court to intervene.
The lawyers for human rights had lodged an urgent application on...
7 September 2015
(News)
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) said on Friday that Pilanesberg Platinum Mine “will immediately halt its activities on a portion of land on Wilgespruit” while an ownership dispute is being reolved.
This comes‚ LHR said in a statement‚ after the parties had “reached a settlement”‚ which will also entail perimeter fencing remaining intact‚ “but...
7 September 2015
(News)
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) said on Friday that Pilanesberg Platinum Mine "will immediately halt its activities on a portion of land on Wilgespruit" while an ownership dispute is being resolved.
This came after the parties had "reached a settlement"‚ which would also entail perimeter fencing remaining intact‚ "but gates will be opened to allow freedom of...
7 September 2015
(News)
The people of the Lesethleng Village paid for their land and are the rightful‚ lawful owners and should be consulted with as such.
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Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) said that Pilanesberg Platinum Mine “will immediately halt its activities on a portion of land on Wilgespruit” while an ownership dispute is being reolved.
This comes‚ LHR said in a statement‚ after the...
4 September 2015
(News)
The Mahikeng High Court in the North West has ordered Pilanesberg Platinum Mine to halt operations on the Wilgerspruit farm near Sun City. This follows an agreement between lawyers representing the mine and those representing the Lesetlheng Community.
The community wants the mine to halt all its activities and restore possession of the farm to it. Lesethleng community bought Wilgerspruit in 1919...
3 September 2015
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights and Pilanesberg Platinum Mine have reached a settlement that it will immediately halt its activities on a portion of land on Wilgespruit in the North West and restore undisturbed possession of the farm while a dispute over ownership of the land is resolved.
The settlement also entails that fencing on the perimeter will remain intact but gates will be opened to allow...
2 September 2015
(News)
Human rights lawyers have lodged an urgent application on behalf of a community in the North West to stop all mining operations by the Pilanesberg Platinum Mines on Wilgespruit 2JQ farms.
Respondents in the application are Pilanesberg Platinum Mines, Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform Gugile Nkwinti, and Minister of Mineral Resources Ngoako Ramatlhodi. The Bakgatla-Ba-Kgafela...
2 September 2015
(News)
THERE is a fight in our rural areas for democracy and economic fairness. But, because those who are fighting it are not the sort of people whose rights matter in the suburbs, few of us know about it.
How about this for an event to catch the imagination of commentators and journalists — of everyone in the national debate? A group of property owners are denied what is rightfully theirs by an...
1 September 2015
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Another rural community is poised to mount a court battle for land rights against a mining company this week.
Wilgespruit farm in North West, on which Pilanesberg Platinum Mine operates, is at the centre of the dispute that began in 2008. Lawyers for Human Rights, representing the Lesetlheng village community, will on Thursday approach the North West High Court to argue that the mine’s...