Sibanye-Stillwater's Marikana mine, the subject of a court case after an unemployed community member was jailed for disrupting operations.
A community unemployment forum leader jailed for contempt after breaching a court order protecting Sibanye-Stillwater’s Marikana mining operations has failed in his bid to overturn the original interdict that ultimately led to his imprisonment.
Tshepo Hope Molaulwa, leader of the Greater Local Communities Unemployment Forum, was jailed for contempt after breaching an urgent court order obtained by Sibanye-Stillwater to prevent disruptions at its Marikana mining operations, located along the platinum-rich Merensky reef.
Molaulwa later returned to court seeking to overturn that original interdict, arguing that he had never been properly served with the application.
But the North West High Court refused to hear the matter urgently, finding that Molaulwa had waited about nine months to challenge the order and had therefore created his own urgency.
