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WHEN the SADC Tribunal, set up to protect the rights of everyone in the region, was summarily given the boot at the instance of Zimbabwe’s then president, Robert Mugabe, it came as a great shock to people in SA that the president at the time, Jacob Zuma, joined in the demolition party.
Intellectual Property:
dti: The National Assembly passed the Copyright Amendment Bill, the Performers’ Protection Amendment Bill and the Gambling Amendment Bill
Copyright Amendment Bill passed (South Africa)
http://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/copyright-amendment-bill-passed/
SA Copyright Amendment Bill - resources
On Thursday, the Constitutional Court of South Africa ruled in favour of communities arguing for a bigger say in mining decisions.
Members of the Lesetlheng community in North West were granted an appeal to an eviction notice that was previously approved by the North West High Court in 2017. It would have seen 13 families evicted from their farmland to make way for a mining project of Bakgatla Mineral Resources and Pilanesburg Platinum Mine (PPM).
