News flash
- The World Wildlife Fund is suing South Africa’s Environment Minister Dion George over his decision to dismiss appeals against an offset exemption given to the Elandsfontein mine.
- The phosphate mine, registered as Kropz Plc, is 90% owned by Patrice Motsepe’s African Rainbow Capital Investments Ltd.
Under the offset proposal, which was invalidated by the provincial office of the ministry in 2021, Kropz would have bought and donated more than 20,000 acres of land to the West Coast National Park.
“The environment, and therefore the public at large, has suffered prejudice from the unconscionable delays in the implementation of the offset requirements,” the WWF said in papers filed with South Africa’s High Court on 13 March 13.
Author: Bryan Groenendaal
