Programme News
19 November 2014
(News)
On 17 November 2014, the Sowetan issued an apology for misrepresenting facts and wrongfully attributing quotes to LHR and MIACC [our client].
10 November 2014
(Press release)
Ivanhoe Mines announced last week that the mining right for the development and operation of the company’s Platreef mining project in Mokopane had been executed and would enable immediate preparations for the construction of the mining site. The mine further reported that the final approval of the mining right was indicative of the Department of Mineral Resources' (DMR) satisfaction...
8 October 2014
(News)
Ivanhoe Mines on Wednesday hit back at a media report by Bloomberg that, among other accusations, alleged the company had rigged representative elections to a community trust that was set up as part of a broad-based black economic-empowerment (BBBEE) deal that gave 20 local communities a 26% interest in the $1.7-billion Platreef platinum group elements project, in South Africa.
The Africa-focused...
7 October 2014
(News)
Billionaire Robert Friedland’s South African platinum project may be held up by a split in the local community, with residents accusing his Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. of subverting a process to give them a fair share in the mine.
People living in the Mokopane area in the northern Limpopo province, one of the country’s poorest regions, are lobbying the government to delay the mining...
16 September 2014
(Press release)
Press statement: Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment – Mokopane Communities in the dark about benefits from Ivanplats’ BBBEE transaction
Canadian mining giant Ivanhoe Mines has announced that its subsidiary Ivanplats (Pty) Ltd (previously known as Platreef Resources (Pty) Ltd) has finalised a broad-based black economic-empowerment (BBBEE) deal, giving 20 local host...
14 August 2014
(Press release)
On Friday, 8 August 2014, attorneys at Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) and the Centre for Environmental Rights (CER) addressed joint letters to the Ministers of Water & Sanitation, Health, and Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs, asking the Ministers of each of those Departments to intervene urgently to ensure the provision of clean drinking water to a number of towns in the...
8 July 2014
(News)
Lawyers for Human Rights, on behalf of the Mokopane Interested and Affected Communities Committee (MIACC), has lodged an appeal against the Department of Mineral Resources’s decision to grant a mining right to Platreef Resources for their proposed platinum mine in Mokopane, Limpopo.
It will arguably be once of the world’s largest platinum mines that could extract for up to 100 years....
21 May 2014
(Press release)
Featuring:
Gloria Bosman, Paul Hanmer (piano), Sydney Mavundla (trumpet), Mthunzi Mvubu (sax), Bernice Boikanyo (drums) and Thembinkosi Mavimbela (bass), plus eminent poets
South African platinum mine workers have been on strike for 4 months with no pay. The bosses and companies have been intransigent. We are living in a society where our CEO 's are the 3rd highest paid in the...
13 March 2014
(News)
The Chief Albert Luthuli Local Municipality in Carolina in Mpumalanga has called on residents to use tap water provided by the municipality.
This comes after Lawyers for Human Rights indicated that water tests, conducted on borehole water in Carolina, have revealed that the water is contaminated with high level of nitrates in the town, and faecal coliform bacteria in neighbouring Selobela...
6 March 2014
(News)
Inwoners van Carolina en Silobela ervaar weer ’n waterkrisis nadat suur mynwater twee jaar gelede uit hul krane geloop het.
Hierdie keer is hulle gewaarsku om nie die water uit hul boorgate te drink voordat hulle dit nie laat toets het nie omdat van die grondwater met E.coli en nitrate besoedel is.
Regslui vir Menseregte (RMR) het in ’n verklaring gesê mense het die laaste tyd...