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The highly anticipated judgment on Part B of the legal challenge to stop Shell’s planned seismic blasting off the Wild Coast of South Africa is set to be delivered at the Makhanda High Court on Thursday.

Lawyers at the Gqeberha High Court are fighting to have Shell’s exploration rights off the Wild Coast reviewed.

Finding gas or oil along SA’s coastline could solve its energy crisis and it was government’s job, not the judiciary’s, to strike the delicate balance between preserving the environment and promoting justifiable economic and social development.

Finding gas or oil along SA’s coastline could solve its energy crisis and it was government’s job, not the judiciary’s, to strike the delicate balance between preserving the environment and promoting justifiable economic and social development.

Shell and Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe's lawyers have both argued that environmental authorisation was in place to conduct a seismic survey off the Wild Coast.

An attempt by mayor Eugene Johnson to fire Nelson Mandela Bay’s economic development boss, Anele Qaba, backfired in the Gqeberha high court on Friday, with judge Glenn Goosen taking less than 30 minutes to make a ruling.

Lawyers argue in the hope of preventing Shell from conducting a seismic survey off the Wild Coast to explore for oil and gas. Lawyers argue in the hope of preventing Shell from conducting a seismic survey off the Wild Coast to explore for oil and gas.

Judgment looms on Grahamstown-Makhanda appeal April 30, 2021NEWS As the Grahamstown-Makhanda name-change case ratcheted up in the town’s high court this week, Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa was described as arrogant in his ignorance of historical and material facts; the name-change objectors as obsessive in the face of the country’s laws and Constitution. Judgment was reserved in the appeal this week against Mthethwa’s decision to approve the renaming of Grahamstown to Mak...

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