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FS mine interdicts municipality─── OLEBOGENG MOTSE 08:34 Sat, 15 Dec 2018
The Kopanong Local Municipality and the Jagersfontein Multi-Stakeholder Mining Forum can only next month return to court to challenge an order.
The order prohibits them from further disrupting repair work to damaged water infrastructure belonging to Jagersfrontein Developments.
The diamond recovery mine turned to the Free State High Court to help settle the company’s contentious relationship with the municipality.
High Court Judge Philip Jacobus Loubser granted the mine an interdict on Thursday after Kopanong cut water supply to the mine on behalf of the Jagersfontein community last week in a bid to force the company to delve into the issues concerning the community.
Loubser’s order states that all the members of JMMF have been interdicted “from performing or inciting the performance of any action which result or may reasonably be expected to result in the damage to the property of the applicant or physical or mental harm being suffered by any of the applicant’s members or staff”.
The Municipal Manager, Martin Kubeka has been “directed to provide the applicant access to the Sewerage Treatment Plant in order to allow the applicant to repair the damage caused to its infrastructure”.
The respondents can challenge the order on the return date, which is 24 January 2019 and argue why it should not be made final.
Municipal Spokesperson, Solomzi Phama and a community member who has asked not to be named, confirmed that they have received the order.
Phama directed enquiries to the municipal manager, while the community member alleges the municipality will be challenging the order.
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