South Africa’s New Mining Cadastre: A Critical Evaluation Of SAMRAD’s Failings And The Road To Reform
Overview South Africa’s mining industry has long been constrained by an inefficient and opaque mineral rights administration system. The South African Mineral Resources Administration System (“SAMRAD”), launched in 2011, was intended to be a digital solution for managing mineral applications. Instead, it has become a symbol of dysfunction, plagued by delays, corruption allegations, and backlogs […]