Parliament, Friday, 4 October 2024 – The Portfolio Committee on Mineral and Petroleum Resources will from Monday, 7 October 2024, conduct oversight visits to the North West and Gauteng provinces.
The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa states that Parliament has the power to conduct oversight over all organs of state, including those at provincial and local government levels. Also, Parliament and its committees have powers to summon any person or institution to give evidence or produce documents, and to report to them.
Against this backdrop, the committee will meet with the Rustenburg-based regional office of the Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources on Monday, where it will be briefed about illegal mining in the province, and meet with organised labour.
On Tuesday, it will visit the Impala Platinum Mine, also in Rustenburg, where it will be briefed by management on the latest statistics on mine health and safety, as well as receive an update on the incident that occurred last year. This will be followed by an inspection of the mine.
On Wednesday, the committee will be in Gauteng to visit Sibanye Stillwater in Carletonville, West Rand, where it will be briefed by management on mine health and safety, and later on conduct an inspection of the premises.
On Thursday, the committee will convene at the Harmony Gold Mponeng Lapa, Wits West, Carletonville, to be briefed by Harmony Gold Mine, Sibanye Stillwater and Blyvoor Gold, followed by inspections of Kusasa Sewerage plant, Blyvoor plant area, Covelant waste dump and Sibanye plant area.
On Friday, the committee will focus on illegal mining sites in Ekurhuleni and conduct inspections at the DRD solar plant rehabilitated mining site, the Benoni Driving Range Racetrack rehabilitation and the Van Ryn illegal mining site.
All members of the media are invited to join the committee.
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Email: jmolafo@parliament.gov.za
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