Hon Deputy Chairperson, I hereby give notice that on the next sitting day of the Council I shall move on behalf of Cope:
That the Council -
1) debates whether the mineral rights that are awarded by the Department of Mineral Resources, DMR, become immediately tradable and transferable in the hands of the awardee and can therefore be made over to the highest bidder, as happened with Imperial Crown Trading;
2) notes that to all intents and purposes the DMR does not require any applicant to prove that it has the capacity to undertake the kind of mining linked to the rights but that "political links to key centres of political power" appears to be the sole criterion used by the DMR; and
3) calls on government to explain to the unions, investors and the people of South Africa whether the nationalisation of the mines has already begun by stealth and furthermore to clarify its policy of limiting beneficiaries to those who have "political links to key centres of political power" as is evident in this and other cases.