Our application has been in for a year, hopefully we are one of the eleven
“A mining rights applicant in South Africa has to receive approval from the DMR, which takes about a year; the Department of Water Affairs for the water use licence, which takes two or more years; and the Department of Environmental Affairs,”
“Eleven mining applications that have been outstanding for a long period have been cleared by the new DMR director-general and I am confident that things will change in the department,” she tells Mining Weekly