Dr Anri Heyns

Postdoctoral Fellow

Anri is a corporate and commercial law consultant at O’Reilly Law and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the MLiA Chair.

a) PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES 

  1. Heyns, A & Mostert, H “Three Mining Charters and a Draft: How the Politics and Rhetoric of Development in the South African Mining Sector are Keeping Communities in Poverty” 2018 (11) Law and Development Review 801-841. Available at https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ldr-2018-0038/html?lang=en. Also Available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/
    324659150_Three_Mining_Charters_and_a_Draft_How_the_Politics_and_Rhetoric_of_Development_in_the_South_African
    _Mining_Sector_are_Keeping_Communities_in_Poverty. 

b) TECHNICAL REPORTS AND POLICY 

  1. Olivier, NJJ, Mostert, H , Heyns, A & Ntuli, L “A New Shared Vision for Mining in South Africa: Towards Enduring Transformation in Our Sunrise Industry” (2017) Submission Made to The Department of Mineral Resources and the Office of the Presidency on behalf of Mineral Law in Africa in response to call for input on 2017 Mining Charter. Available at http://www.mlia.uct.ac.za/news/
    comments-2018-draft-mining-charter-submission-mlia-presidency. 

c) CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND GUEST LECTURES 

  1. Heyns, A “Finding "Community" in the Mining Charter - Considering Legal Design Thinking as a Tool” Paper Presented at MLIA Lunchtime Research Seminar Series II: Local Content Laws in Resource-Rich African Countries: A Conversation on the Design of African Mineral Laws Towards Designing a Better Future for Africa (11 May 2023) Held Online & at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. Edited Recording Available at https://youtu.be/w1yNW52xn3k (11 August 2023)
  2. Heyns, A “Finding the “Community” in the Mining Charter- Considering Legal Design Thinking as a Tool” Presentation held at the Mineral Law in Africa Colloquium VII, University of Cape Town, Cape Town (31 October - 3 November 2022).
  3. African Mining Industry: How BEE, Mine Community Development and Social Licence to Operate Define CSR” Paper Presented at “Pathways to Sustainability in Mineral Supply Chains: Tracking the Trends in the Copper, Platinum Group Metals and Gold Supply Chains” International conference hosted virtually by the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. (21–22 June 2021).
  4. Heyns, A “Law’s Reality: The Obstacles for and Potential of the Law to bring about Social Change in Poor Mining Communities in South Africa” Paper Presented at the Great Expectations–When Law Meets Reality Edinburgh Postgraduate Law Conference 2021, hosted virtually by the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (19-20 April 2021). Programme Available at https://www.lawphdconference.ed.ac.uk/programme/.
  5. Heyns, A “Mining Community Development in South Africa: A Critical Consideration of how the Law and Development Approaches the Concept ‘Community’” Paper Presented at the Law and Development Conference, hosted by the Law and Development Institute and Humbolt University, Germany (6-7 July 2018).
  6. Heyns, A “The Effects of the Politics of Development for Poor Mining Communities in South Africa” Paper Presented at the 2nd Dundee Energy Forum, hosted by the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, University of Dundee, (25-26 June 2018).
  7. Mostert, H & Heyns, A “Legislating Corporate Due Diligence to Transform the South African Mining Industry: How BEE, Mine Community Development and Social License to Operate Define CSR” Paper Presented at Pathways to Sustainability in Mineral Supply Chains: Tracking the Trends in the Copper, Platinum Group Metals and Gold Supply Chains International conference hosted virtually by the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, PLACE. (21 – 22 June 2021). 

d) PEER REVIEWED MLIA OUTPUTS

  1. Heyns, A & Mostert, H “Three Mining Charters and a Draft: How the Politics and Rhetoric of Development in the South African Mining Sector are Keeping Communities in Poverty” 2018 (11) Law and Development Review 801-841.
  2. Heyns, A & Mmusinyane, B “Should the Alienation of Land Act 68 of 1981 be amended to address homelessness? Sarrahwitz v Maritz 2015 8 BCLR 925 (CC)” (2017) 20 Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal 1 - 38. 

e) POSTERS 

  1. Heyns, A “The Empowerment of Mining Communities: The Battle of Ccommunity’ vs ‘Development’” Poster Presented at the 2022 Mineral Law in Africa Colloquium VII, Cape Town, South Africa (31 October 2022). 

f) MLiA WEBSITE ARTICLES 

  1. Olivier, N, Mostert, H, Heyns, A & Ntuli, L “A New Shared Vision for Mining in South Africa: Towards Enduring Transformation in Our Sunrise Industry” (2017) Submission Made to The Department of Mineral Resources and the Office of the Presidency on behalf of Mineral Law in Africa in response to call for input on 2017 Mining Charter. Available at http://www.mlia.uct.ac.za/news/comments-2018-draft-mining-charter-submission-mlia-presidency.
  2. Heyns, A “Recent Developments in Mineral Law: The “Once-empowered, Always-empowered” Saga” Available at http://www.mlia.uct.ac.za/news/
    recent-developments-mineral-law-“once-empowered-always-empowered”-saga (26 May 2016). 

g) MTM FORUMS 

  1. Heyns, A "Empowerment through Mine Community Development: How the politics of development perpetuate poverty in mining areas – A legal theoretical analysis" Presented a Guest Webinar at the Minerals to Metal/Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Forum (4 November 2020). Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZalsQgrmUpw, (3 February 2021). 

h) PhD DISSERTATION 

  1. Heyns, A Empowerment through Mine Community Development: How the Politics of Development Perpetuate Poverty in Mining Areas – a Legal Theoretical Analysis, Available at https://open.uct.ac.za/handle/11427/32685, (Phd-thesis, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town, 2020).
  2. LLM MINI-DISSERTATION CO-SUPERVISION
  3. Runganga, D Foreign Direct Investment & Indigenization in Zimbabwe's Platinum Sector: Is the Indigenization and Economic Empowerment Act a Deterrent to Foreign Investors? Available at http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41905 (LLM Mini-dissertation University of Cape Town, Faculty of Law, 2025). (Co-supervised with RH Cramer and A Heyns).
  4. Zondo, N A Just Transition towards Sustainable Development: A Legal Analysis of the Transition to a Low-Carbon Economy in the South African Mining Industry in the Context of Sustainable Development Available at http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41190 (LLM Mini-dissertation, University of Cape Town, Faculty of Law, Department of Private Law, 2024) (Co-supervised with RH Cramer and A Heyns).