Weeks after the Polokwane high court ordered her to halt operations in one area, companies linked to businesswoman and Musina municipal employee Maria Munyai continue to mine sand on a farm next to the Limpopo River.
The farms manager, Jacque Turner, said that the continued mining is environmentally destructive, illegal and the latest chapter in a years-long dispute with Munyai and her companies, which Turner has reported to the police scores of times and fought in court for years.
But Munyai said she has a right to mine on the farm Vrouwensbrom and the department of mineral resources energy said she has stopped mining on the parcel of land that was subject to many of Turners complaints. The department said that two other companies with separate permits continue to mine on the farm.