Five months after an urgent application was filed with the Western Cape High Court, one of South Africa’s biggest diamond-mining companies has responded. Trans Hex is holding its ground, arguing that its mining rights based on renewed environmental authorisations are legal.
In the past few months, the Atlantic west coast in the region of the Olifants River estuary has sustained a barrage of new diamond mining applications. The documents reveal a litany of legally questionable oversights, including a failure to assess the needs of local communities. But the most di.