dlk001
Executive Member
BBC just loves stories about SA. Would have loved to hear Anglo Platinum's view on this. Pitty they pulled off in the last moment from Talk 702 today's discussions.
Platinum's operations in South Africa's Limpopo province are once again being scrutinised after the publication of an ActionAid report, which suggests villagers may have been reluctant to leave their original homes to make way for the company’s mines and that the operations may be contaminating water supplies.
It appears that activist lawyer Richard Spoor has been successful in his goal of internationalising the issue, with the BBC posting an article on its website and BBC Radio reporting on the issue on Tuesday as ActionAid requested the South African Human Rights Commission investigate the allegations.
Anglo Platinum in a statement day later said it was aware of the allegations in the BBC Radio and ActionAid Report.
"The reports contain numerous errors in addition to inflammatory statements," said Anglo Platinum.
The Anglo subsidiary said it welcomed the South African Human Rights Commission`s undertaking to fully investigate the validity of the ActionAid allegations.
ActionAid said: "Remote rural communities have lost their land and access to clean water in South Africa as a result of mining by Anglo Platinum."
It estimates thousands of poor people in four villages in the Bushveld mineral complex in Limpopo province have lost farm land and received little compensation in a series of relocation deals with Anglo Platinum.
"There were so many promises," ActionAid reports Isaac Pila, 72, who moved to the new township of Sterkwater to make way for open cast mining on his land, as saying.
http://www.miningmx.com/mining_fin/439398.htm
Platinum's operations in South Africa's Limpopo province are once again being scrutinised after the publication of an ActionAid report, which suggests villagers may have been reluctant to leave their original homes to make way for the company’s mines and that the operations may be contaminating water supplies.
It appears that activist lawyer Richard Spoor has been successful in his goal of internationalising the issue, with the BBC posting an article on its website and BBC Radio reporting on the issue on Tuesday as ActionAid requested the South African Human Rights Commission investigate the allegations.
Anglo Platinum in a statement day later said it was aware of the allegations in the BBC Radio and ActionAid Report.
"The reports contain numerous errors in addition to inflammatory statements," said Anglo Platinum.
The Anglo subsidiary said it welcomed the South African Human Rights Commission`s undertaking to fully investigate the validity of the ActionAid allegations.
ActionAid said: "Remote rural communities have lost their land and access to clean water in South Africa as a result of mining by Anglo Platinum."
It estimates thousands of poor people in four villages in the Bushveld mineral complex in Limpopo province have lost farm land and received little compensation in a series of relocation deals with Anglo Platinum.
"There were so many promises," ActionAid reports Isaac Pila, 72, who moved to the new township of Sterkwater to make way for open cast mining on his land, as saying.
http://www.miningmx.com/mining_fin/439398.htm