In the media
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7 September 2015
Times Live
Workers fired after standing up to their employer for allegedly installing a surveillance camera in their staff bathroom at a Pretoria grocer's have been reinstated following intervention by Lawyers for Human Rights.
The Times reported last week that 40 male employees at Helgas grocery, in Silverton, Pretoria, were fired after staying away from work in an unprotected strike in protest against a surveillance camera they said they had discovered in a bathroom.
The employees were fired for defying an ultimatum to return to work on Thursday.
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4 September 2015
The Citizen
The North West High Court in Mahikeng has ordered the Pilanesberg Platinum Mines to stop its operations on Wilgespruit 2JQ farm, where community members have resisted payments to move and make way for mining.
Members of the Lesethleng Village Community, represented by lawyers for human rights, approached the high court to intervene.
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4 September 2015
The Sowetan
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) said on Friday that Pilanesberg Platinum Mine “will immediately halt its activities on a portion of land on Wilgespruit” while an ownership dispute is being reolved.
This comes‚ LHR said in a statement‚ after the parties had “reached a settlement”‚ which will also entail perimeter fencing remaining intact‚ “but gates will be opened to allow freedom of movement while security personnel remain to protect the mine’s equipment”.
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4 September 2015
Business Day
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) said on Friday that Pilanesberg Platinum Mine "will immediately halt its activities on a portion of land on Wilgespruit" while an ownership dispute is being resolved.
This came after the parties had "reached a settlement"‚ which would also entail perimeter fencing remaining intact‚ "but gates will be opened to allow freedom of movement while security personnel remain to protect the mine’s equipment" LHR said in a statement.
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4 September 2015
Times Live
Mine to tear down internal fences on disputed North West land
The people of the Lesethleng Village paid for their land and are the rightful‚ lawful owners and should be consulted with as such.
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Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) said that Pilanesberg Platinum Mine “will immediately halt its activities on a portion of land on Wilgespruit” while an ownership dispute is being reolved.
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4 September 2015
SABC Television
The Mahikeng High Court in the North West has ordered Pilanesberg Platinum Mine to halt operations on the Wilgerspruit farm near Sun City. This follows an agreement between lawyers representing the mine and those representing the Lesetlheng Community.
The community wants the mine to halt all its activities and restore possession of the farm to it. Lesethleng community bought Wilgerspruit in 1919 but at the time - they were not allowed to own land.
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2 September 2015
Huffington Post
On April 15 of this year, Themba Maphosa awoke to news that five immigrants had been killed by South African gangs the previous night in Durban. A month earlier, the Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini shouted at a rally that "foreigners must pack their bags and go home." A wave of violence soon engulfed the country. South Africans remembered similar violence in the country in 2008 when scores were killed.
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2 September 2015
The Citizen
Human rights lawyers have lodged an urgent application on behalf of a community in the North West to stop all mining operations by the Pilanesberg Platinum Mines on Wilgespruit 2JQ farms.
Respondents in the application are Pilanesberg Platinum Mines, Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform Gugile Nkwinti, and Minister of Mineral Resources Ngoako Ramatlhodi. The Bakgatla-Ba-Kgafela Tribal Authority and their chief, Nyalala Pilane, are also cited as respondents.
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2 September 2015
Business Day
THERE is a fight in our rural areas for democracy and economic fairness. But, because those who are fighting it are not the sort of people whose rights matter in the suburbs, few of us know about it.
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31 August 2015
Business Day
Another rural community is poised to mount a court battle for land rights against a mining company this week.
Wilgespruit farm in North West, on which Pilanesberg Platinum Mine operates, is at the centre of the dispute that began in 2008. Lawyers for Human Rights, representing the Lesetlheng village community, will on Thursday approach the North West High Court to argue that the mine’s activities be halted.
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