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News24 | OPINION | Water licence battle: Development without accountability betrays the Constitution

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The Constitutional Court recently heard an application for leave to appeal a Supreme Court of Appeal ruling which upheld a water-use licence granted to Uthaka Energy (formerly Atha-Africa Ventures) for its proposed Yzermyn coal mine in the Mabola Protected Environment.

The Constitutional Court recently heard an application for leave to appeal a Supreme Court of Appeal ruling which upheld a water-use licence granted to Uthaka Energy (formerly Atha-Africa Ventures) for its proposed Yzermyn coal mine in the Mabola Protected Environment.

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